ALL MY CHICKIES ARE HOME!!!!
I am the most happy mom in the world! Both Kaigan and Mikaylie came home for Christmas and I am overjoyed! We managed to get Mikaylie a ticket at the last minute and we are having a fantastic time! We've shopped and visited, gone to parties and just hung out.
AND Kaigan and I climbed the mountain. Yes, I climbed the mountain AGAIN! We went with two other American families. Nine of us. It was hard as heck but so worth it. Though I was rethinking that when we reached the carpark and I realized that my pocket had ripped at some point and my iPhone4 had fallen out SOMEWHERE on the mountain. This morning I got up, carefully as my body was aching, and started on the phone with my cell service provider. I got my phone service suspended so that no one could call some faraway land on my nickel. I then called the police station to report my lost property. I asked if I should call the mountain visitors center and was told that they'd do that. I was also instructed to call our insurance company. We have contents insurance that covers, well, the contents of our home... for just about any reason… including losing your phone while hiking a mountain. The insurance man was so lovely! He listed off the items that I needed to email to him and said if I'd get them to him by 2pm he could put the claim through today and Noel Leeming (an electrics/appliance store) would call on December 26. All I'd have to do is pay the $250 excess (deductible) and I'd get a brand new phone. If the model I had was no longer available I'd receive the next higher available model. Let me mention that I had not even purchased my iPhone in the first place. I had won it from a local store. So I sent the insurance company the police report that the police had emailed me, a photo of my lost phone's box (thankfully I had kept it!) and a copy of my cell phone bill. Within 15 minute he called me back to tell me the claim had been filed and sent to the store. About thirty minutes later the store called to say they'd received my claim and I could come get my new phone TODAY!!! AND that it was an iPhone5s! I also get a replacement Lifeproof case. Wow! It amazes me that it was so easy, hassle-free and every single person I dealt with regarding the claim was absolutely lovely. They all wished me a Merry Christmas. Actually, I've not heard a single "Happy Holidays" this year.
Time to stuff some stockings! MERRY CHRISTMAS and I hope 2014 brings you to New Zealand.