Now I know it's been awhile since I shared  a blog and this comes through from my newsletter.  The last photo you’ll notice I'm sharing is of me (the hair colour has changed just a bit) on a camel in front of the pyramids of Giza in Egypt in March 2016.

Now I’m here to tell you that dreams do come true. This was only once a thought, a dream, a goal. The end result to know it would happen was to have my photo taken on a camel in front of the pyramids. I’d seen photos of others doing this and I thought I’d love that too. I must say being on that camel wasn’t the most enjoyable thing so looks can be deceiving of the hard work that sometimes comes with reaching your goal. :) But this look does say ‘‘I did it’’. Which was guided to happen by the guide who said to me put your hands up in the air.. I did have to trust and let go…. 

You may have heard me share this story of how it came about during one of my face book readings as I’ve shared before if you follow me.

My husband and I in 2015 went to Gallipoli as my husband and I were picked in the ballot to mark the 100th year since the war in Gallipoli where his grandfather served. We were 2 out of 12,000 chosen out of the 44,000 who entered.

I was actually born in England and came to Australia as a 9mth old baby with my parents. So we decided to incorporate the trip over a month by vising the UK. This was my first time going back.

Being farmers this was a very big thing for us. This was to be my husbands first over seas trip and my 2nd. The year before I went to Bali for a yoga and meditation retreat with Sacred Earth which was an amazing experience that I am very grateful for.

I said to my husband before we left on our month trip if only we had another $10,000 and another 2 weeks we could go to Egypt as I said it’s just over the water and always had been a dream to see the pyramids. We didn’t have either so I said let’s say we’ll go in 5 years. He said we’ll go in 5 years, purely repeating my words :)

I said to myself now Sheila you know how this works, with the work I do and you really want this. So just as we were leaving for our trip I put a shiny pyramid on my phone and thought wouldn’t it be amazing if somehow we went in 12 months. :) Knowing this wasn’t the norm for it to happen especially with our months trip away and being farmers not knowing what each season would bring this certainly wouldn’t normally happen so if it did it would be like a miracle. So off we went on our Gallipoli and UK trip, we had a wonderful time.

Arriving at the airport to come home from Istanbul we went to check in at the airport and they told us the plane had been double booked. Only 2 nights before we’d been up all night in Gallipoli so we were a tadd tired. Normally I would be one to go with the flow but I found myself saying, how does this happen when we booked 12 mths ago. They had children they wanted to keep together on the plane so were to wait for another plane which was another 5 hours away now at midnight. The lady at the check in counter said don’t worry we will make it up to you. 

 She then proceeded to write out 2 return tickets to Istanbul to be used within 12 mths, non returnable non redundable. At that moment I just wanted to get on the plane. It wasn’t as though I wanted a free ticket or even thinking of such as thing. At the same time standing in line I realised I didn’t have my phone. (yes the one with the shiny pyramid on it)

Wondering how we would stay awake they put us in the comfort lounge to shower, eat and relax while we waited. As if this wasn’t enough :) especially these days with what’s happening. My husband was laying back in the lounge sipping scotch that was all complimentary, I was sitting on the edge of the seat determined not to fall asleep.

If you’ve got to this part of the story thankyou for sticking with me because I feel this story needs to be told. When we were finally boarding the plane they called out our name and said Mr and Mrs Henley you’ve been upgraded to comfort class. We couldn’t believe it. Funny on our flight over I thought wouldn’t it be amazing if they came to us and said Mr and Mrs Henley we have spare seats in first class would we like to move to them :) So this was even more amazing that it actually happened.

We finally arrived back in Melbourne, our bags were not in sight it was just lucky last thought I packed a small back pack with spare clothes so all we needed to buy was a tooth brushes and paste.

When we finally arrived home, my husband was just thinking about putting the crop in as it was the end of April. Let’s go back to the date of the photo of me with the camel it was actually the 9th March 2016. So by the end of our trip it was a 11 mths from our Egypt trip when I said what if we went in 12 mths wouldn’t that be amazing. A month within the 12 mth of my goal we returned home from our 2 week Egypt trip including a weeks cruise on the Nile. We still needed 2 weeks and we still needed $10,000 but our return tickets saved us $4500 which without them this trip never would have happened I’m here to tell you.

By the way if you’ve made it this far. I mentioned about losing my phone. In the line up at the Istanbul airport a lady in front of me said she was in the same Mariott Motel to us on the same tour in Gallipoli.  She over heard me telling my husband about losing my phone.  She handed me a piece of paper with the motels phone number we stayed at suggesting I call them because as she was leaving to go to the airport she saw someone hand a phone in to the counter.. She said there’s 2 Mariotts and with 20 million people in Istanbul so we need to make sure we called the right one.  When I finally got around to emailing  to explain they rang me one night at midnight to identify the phone. He said how can you identify it’s yours. I said when you turn it on it will have a picture of a shiny pyramid on it. He said it’s definitely yours. :) A month later after having to trust and share my ID to an overseas country and $120.00 later, I received the phone in the mail. Amazing story to share to trust and believe anything is possible.  Thankyou for allowing me to share.