VHe never really established contact on
his return but our lives did cross path once
at a family wedding. After approximately
13 years of never seeing the guy you can
imagine how fun that event was. After
much avoiding, from both myself and my
father, myself and my brother spoke with
him. There were obviously polite
exchanges before he asked if we could
?talk about it?. Being a wedding I wasn?t
really wanting to bring that up and didn?t
feel is was appropriate and knowing that I
kindly declined and said another time. It
was at this point my father decided to
leave the wedding, not return for the
remainder of the night and has not tried to
contact me since. It does need to be
known that I haven?t tried to contact him
either.
Fast forward 3 to 4 years and I am
currently sitting on a Malaysia Airlines
flight from Adelaide to Kuala Lumpur, with
my amazing partner, embarking on our
five week adventure of Asia,
# ljojlodoesasia. Being the slight control
freak I am we arrived at the airport 3 hours
before our international flight, checked in,
cleared security, had the token chai, made
the important ?I love you and yes I promise
to travel safe?phone calls, cleared
international customs, obtained a refund
from the tourist refund scheme and
pre-ordered our duty free. My god we
accomplished a lot in that time, don?t you
think? Usually while going through these
motions I am bound to run into someone I
know, South Australia is a bloody small
place. Unfortunately, no cigar on that this
time. Without a second thought I boarded
the airline and sneakily (I am not sure if I
had to be sneaky) filmed it on time lapse
mode on my GoPro, just in case we need it
for the blog or we can put it together in a
cool montage (I included it below).
Finally, we obtained our seats after being
devastated by the fact we weren?t in
business class or had scored extra leg
room. As I was quickly trying to sort out
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what I needed in the seat pocket and what
could in fact go in the overhead lockers I
noticed someone that looked familiar. I
did the quick double take and realised it
was in fact my amazing Nana and Pa from
my dad?s side. I was instantly excited and
there were hugs and kisses all around. It
was after five seconds of elation my heart
dropped and I thought f*&k, why are they
travelling to Asia? I think dad got married
to someone from Asia, where is dad?
At this point my Nana & Pa quietly
informed me that my father was in fact on
this flight, with his new wife and they
were all in fact travelling to Sri Lanka, the
place we are spending the most amount of
time on our trip. Holy Jesus what do I do?
Unlike my grandparents who were sitting
directly next to me my father was sitting a
few rows back so I had time to gather my
thoughts.