This is an important and incomparable Global Relocation from UAE for our family.
I wanted to share this post earlier once we reached INDIA as we came here during June30th 2020.
When International travel tickets were just opened after LOCKDOWN period.
WE planned for relocating to india once school academic year gets over. As the last working day was 27th june 2020. But we were worried a lot about our travel. Like how to get tickets and travel safely with kids in this pandemic situation. We didn't do much plans as we didn't know exact travel dates.
Everything that happened in our life is only a miracle it all happened because of Gods abundance blessings on our family and our elders prayers. As everyone from our family were more concerned about our travel.
No one will believe our story as it all happened in a matter of a day. Yes we relocated from UAE in a day planning as we got our tickets on june29th morning 10.30 with travel date june30.
We registered with indian embassy as we wanted to relocate after exams over. But we got no updates on travel dates. So we couldnot concretely wind off everything from Gas connection to Home furnitures selling.
June 29th
Actually after making breakfast for the day i went to Air India office at khalidiya.It was located at walkable distance from our home. We didnt step out of our apartment since march month. I stepped out of our home for checking tickets with air india office so that we can plan ahead to get ready for our journey.
I reached the agency there was heavy queue especially men's queue waiting outside ticketing office.As there was separate queue for women i happened to get my token. In few min the queue control was taken by police as there was heavy rush. I was called inside and i was happy that i got chance to enquire about our travel dates amidst of this heavy rush. this was my token picture
Once i entered they got our passports and checked about our registration details with embasssy. It took time for them to check so i was asked to wait outside. But police asked me to leave place to avoid women waiting for long time. So they told me they will call me if any updates. so i returned to my home. Suddenly i got a call from agency to collect our tickets for next day to trichy. I was shocked to hear this it was already 10.30 how can we start to india tomorrow.
They told us to come immediately and in no matter of time we had to decide what next has to be done. That too most important and crucial decision. I went to ticket office to collect our tickets. I could not control my tears while walking on road i felt helpless and very tired. Meanwhile my DH called everyone from Gas connection, water connection, eb connection, phone and internet disconnection and home rental agreement cancellation and so on.
I still remember that days happenings after these many days. We also had to give away all our furnitures. From everywhere we got pressured. No one was believing our short time plan of relocating that to the very nextday. Somehow all things happened. Packing things was one of the hectic things.
That day i understood that there is no use of these many things in our life. We hardly use everything. Apart from our needs. From kids books, notebooks,old dresses, cooking utensils, and so on. WE packed things vigorously we were not able to waste a single minute.
Also we had our younger sons keyboard as that will not be allowed in hand luggage, we had to give that to my sons music institute that evening. Me and my kids went to institute for giving keyboard and returned home with a long walk on our favourite road. We were all worn out fully. We had to eat outside in a restaurant near our home that night. We got a person to shift our furnitures. As we had to handover our home empty we had to compromise with everything that happens around us.
Only one desire we had was our safe travel other than that we cant think of any other. AS lockdown period was over and every thing started to function normally with safety protocols in abudhabi we were able to get done all works easily.
Our flight was scheduled for 6:00 pm next day. so we have to be in airport atleast 6 hours before as we had to do our test in airport.
So we had our dinner and planned to sleep we could not sleep properly that night. By 12:00 am some authorities came for taking covid test we told them we going to india today but still they insisted to take the test as they doing it area wise. They took our emirates id and after some time two people came in PPE suit came for taking swab test.
We all took the test. My younger son was in deep sleep and we had to wake him up for the test. IN middle of sleep he also underwent swab test. Later we got our id's.
The next day morning my husband had to go for rental home documents and key handover. We cleaned our flat for hand over. We ate our lunch and bid good bye to our home and started to airport at 12:30.
We reached airport by 1:15. Before entering we had to go for a Rapid covid test in abudhabi airport.
Thankfully we all got negative as we didn't travel anywhere for past 3 months.
Then we checked in airport. Followed social distancing protocol we could see markings on floor and on seats in waiting areas. Below are few pic in airport.In this tough situation we clicked this to mark our historical moments.
WE boarded the flight by 5:23
We all were wearing mask,gloves, and face shield till end of our journey. All middle seat passengers were given PPE kit. My dh got a ppe kit to wear.Other than hand bags and laptop bags all other bags were put in checked in luggage. Once we all were inside the plane. We could see many passengers like us and also most of them were pregnant women who were travelling back to india in this flight with us.
We sat in our place quitely. We found it hard to sit without touching any places. As we were all tired kids slept in flight. We kept washing our hands if we accidentally touch any place. We were given water bottles in the plane and small pack of food was given. We had our own water bottle. So we didn't eat or drink in plane
Mainly we didnt use rest rooms during our travel.
Almost by 11:30 our flight landed in trichy airport. All our luggages were sanitised before it was put in conveyer belt. We collected our luggage. We gave the filled form in airport and did covid test in the airport before exiting.
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