The big trip to Oz

As you might have worked out from the last entry, Steve got pissed off with feeling like nobody was reading our blog because nobody ever left any comments and that is partly why the last entry was in January! We also spent a January where a week didn't go by without at least one person being ill, then had a busy February which included a week in blighty, and then manic preparation for our trip. I thought it seemed a shame not to put something up here about the Oz adventure, but given my extreme lack of skills in things technical, if this ever makes it up there on the web it will be a genuine miracle, or Steve will have given in and helped me! You'll have to guess which! (i.e. Am I more useless than Steve is stubborn?)

First stop -Hong Kong (well actually second stop, as first was London, but I guess you've all seen photos of Buckingham Palace and the London Eye so we'll get on with the more exotic stuff!)





Cassi introducing Edie to the joys of ice-cream in Kowloon park, under the shade of a huge leaf which she was devastated not to be able to take on the plane when we left!











After Hong Kong we spent a week in Sydney before Rich and Emma's wedding, seeing the sights and enjoying being shown around by locals. The wedding itself was in an idyllic spot about 2 hours drive from Sydney in a vineyard in the Hunter Valley. Beautiful! (As of course were the flower girls!)












The next trip out of Sydney took us to Perth, where after 6 years we caught up with Christy, which was amazing. Cassi had been so excited that she fell asleep within about an hour of meeting her brother, and Edie followed suit. But at least it gave us chance to have a grown ups chat, as that is undeniably what Christy is now! It was great to see how well father and son still got on.



Tokyo on the way back was in some ways a disappointment, but really only because we ran out of time there. We could have done with 3 weeks not 3 nights. But what we did see we liked very much, and Cassi still asks to go back to 'one of those bars where the food goes round and round in circles!' Have to say -not many of those in rural France sweetheart!





Just a few more random shots- you can add your own captions if you want!