Are we really going to live in this FANTASTIC house??

Kim and Coop took us to our new house to show us around. And what a house. Built by Doug and the family it is truly amazing. Photos just don't do it justice.

Kim and Coop set off tomorrow on a 14 hour trip to Kansas to visit Kim's mum for Christmas and here they are making sure we are comfortable, showing us how everything works, giving us "cell" numbers of everyone who can help us! Whew!!

The house is just so warm, beautifully decorated with gorgeous antiques, lovely furniture and so, so comfortable, we are really lucky to have this experience.

There is this amazing stream that flows in front of the house with ducks swimming. Apparentely it never freezes over because it is fed from a hot spring. Cool eh!

What a welcome

Fantastic welcome at the airport....Kim and "Coop" Katie and her parents. Baggage all there and so off into the icicle night to Garlic Mikes italian restaurant. Yummie food!!!
How good is that?

Kim and Coop who will be visiting Oz in March and staying at our place with Kaylonn and Doug gave us a huge welcome.

Amazing in the restaurant lots of people kept coming up and saying "Welcome to USA"

Incredible

Yeehah!! Denver to Gunnison at last

Woah! Look at those mountains. Flight delayed because of blizzards in Chicargo but we had a great trip in from the flats of Denver to the mountain passes to Gunnison.

Don't you love travel

Finally............ left at 1.00 a day late- have just got to San Fran and made ourselves some brunch. Could not eat one meal on the plane as it was all burnt at the bottom, raw in the middle absolutely Disgusting. Don't fly United.

Staying at a condo right opposite the Giants stadium Just off to walk down to Fishermans wharf - early dinner and then I think we will sleep............big day tomorrow......cable car..........park..........relax and then off early the next day. Problem is that Denver airport is closed at the moment because of severe snowstorms.........Don't you love travel.

Whoo hoo San Fran. 34 years since we were last here. I had forgotten how laid back and friendly people are here and the bookshops!!! Wow Wow and wow . No more crappy Angus and Robertsons.............big, deep leather lounges to gently browse into a book listening to fab music, strong cappucinnos and its cold outside .....how good does it get!!

Walked from our condo to Fishermans (persons) walk via the enclosed market place with great organic farmers market, cheeses and a rather nice wine bar with yummy fresh breads, cheeses and meat platters .........yum.

Caleb in Paris ...........suffering the FRENCH 'pardon, je ne comprend pas' syndrome plus the huge cost of everything in Europe...............missing Germany., Switzerland and our " home stay daughter Karin" He's off back to England and then New york ...........looking forward to meeting up in Gunnison.

Mascot is not san fran!

Whew what a day..............packing, packing, cleaning, panicing..thanks Jules would never have done it without you............although leaving all our undies in the dryer wasn't a good idea!

Arrived at airport at 2.00 for our 4.15 flight.................flight delayed for 2 hours..........an hour later ...........we were told there was another hour delay. To cut a long story short, we queued, sat on a hot, hot aircraft finally a glass of water and pecan cookie and then the flight was cancelled and so we "deplaned" queued again for customs, queued again for buses....decided to get a cab.....arrived at the hotel at 9.15pm..........Dinner at 9.45 exhausted to bed no. We are due to leave at 1.00pm today.

Thanks for all your lovely emails and best wishes.

Farewell to Sydney lunch

Wow! what a great day....lots of people, food laughter. Feels sad to be leaving but am really excited about the huge change of lifestyle!!

Thanks for coming guys it was fun......loved your farewell gifts and speech James !

Just all too much for some!!!!!!!!!!!!

Guess it was all that hard work getting us organised. Thanks John and Val