The Universe looks after us

As we sit safely back in the New Zealand winter, the events around the world, that happened overnight, just proves that someone is actually looking after us.

The Qatar flight that we were scheduled to be on and could not get clearance (medical) to fly, left Doha last night and had a mechanical emergency! A big hole in its motor! Circled for an hour or so, dumping fuel (so as not to overrun on landing) and headed back to Doha stranding all its New Zealand bound passengers, waiting for another plane. That would have been Us! But as they made it very difficult to fly, we sneaked away on another airline! Still waiting for refund, but a good position to be in.

Then overnight….

The home we owned in Auckland, before moving north to the hibiscus coast five years ago, was hit by a freak localised tornado, ripping off the roof, blowing in the big glass ranch sliders and bowling all the boundary fences and trees! At the time of selling Russ was a little apprehensive, but five years later, we have escaped this event too.

So I joined the northern motorway traffic jams this morning and headed to town to get my head around work, Russ had a quiet day at home, knowing we had dodged a couple of bullets here.

Karma, the universe or whatever has been keeping us safe!