Welcome to the Family of Five

When we moved to Australia 2.5 years ago, a Canadian friend said to me - start a blog about your adventures...alright, it's taken me 2.5 years to get around to it. I thought however that now was the time to do it as we wrap up our Aussie adventure and life down under and make the long trek back to the Great White North via SE Asia and China.

So, welcome to the Family of Five - if you are reading this, you are probably already a member of our extended family. We tend to pick up lots of people no matter where we go - we are a social family and like to hear the stories of others so we thought we would share our story for anyone who wants to follow along.

A good assumption is that this is the clan on the right. This (rare) great photo was taken in Los Angeles at our friend Kathleen & Stu's house after 15 hours of travel on our way to Toronto for Christmas. It still amazes me that we managed to be awake during what was a great stopover visit and Christmas lunch!! It was downhill from there as the jet lag settled in over a period of 7 - 9 days....it was of course worth it.

Stay tuned....more to come as we live the chaos of wrapping up school, work, moving, planning the 9 week odyssey and get prepared to say goodbye to our adopted home.