Back home in the UK

After rushing around like mad men, we finally managed to sort out the boat and get everything packed away and sorted in order for her to be left for six months. I say we, but I actually mean Sym worked and i just lay on the bed with 5 fans around me trying my best to keep cool or chilled by the pool. The weather was so sticky and hot - being up in the high nineties and felt faint the majority of the time. How people cope having babies in that heat I just do not understand!

Leaving Gypsy Moth



We finally arrived back in the UK after what felt like a eternity travelling and moved back in with my mam in my house I grew up in in Wales. It felt so good to be in the cold weather - even though it was summer time in the UK it was no where near as hot.
Our plan was for Sym to go back to work and make some money, spent Christmas at home and then fly back to Gypsy Moth in the new year with our new little baby!

Hallie decided to hang in there and make a late appearance and I gave birth to her the morning I was booked in to be induced. She arrived at 7.12am on the 30th August 2010, weighing 8.14 oz....a little chubber i must say. I wont go into the details of the labour as to be honest im still quite mentally scarred from the shear pain of it all!!

Hallie a few minutes old!



Proud Mummy and Daddy!!






It was really lovely spending so much time with all our family without having to rush. It was also nice to have my mum and sisters around to help out with Hallie and get all that motherly advice and stuff. However we both missed being on the boat so much and were so eager to get back to Gypsy Moth with our babs and start our travels again!





We booked out flights back out to New York on the 4th January along with our friends Al and Debs who were coming to join us. We thought it would be a nice idea to have some help with the sailing and get us used to the baby on the boat for a few weeks!