We are still in Canberra...3 weeks after arriving...the longest time we have spent in any one place since we left Edinburgh back in November.

And it is REALLY nice (most of the time)...as Stu said before we are loving the sofa and the room and the space...
But with all this relaxing comes the reason why we are in Canberra for a longer period of time...work!

Stu is currently at work. He has 3 days of work this week (which we think is quite enough - don't want to over do it!)

Well, we're still in Canberra, still lazing around in the sunshine and enjoying the fact that we are not...

a) Sharing a bathroom with anyone.
b) Having to listen to anyone snore (other than each other, but we've got used to that)
c) Having a kitchen that when we clean, will stay clean and we know it is clean.

Yes, those things make me sound old, boring and pedantic but you really have no idea. We've also got a wonderfully huge couch in front of an adequate television where the Winter Olympics gets constant showing. It's heaven.

We last left you, dear reader, with the riveting story of Fiona being stung. You'll be glad to know she's ok, and has not complained about it since (or has been in the water!)

I shall call him Squishy and he shall be mine and he shall be my Squishy. Come on, Squishy Come on, little Squishy.
Ow. Bad Squishy, bad Squishy.
NEMO

Oops, its been far too long since we blogged last. Which means we have so much to catch up on. This is because in New Zealand we had to pay for the interent and we are too cheap to do that. And to be honest now we are here in Oz and the internet is also not abundant and free I am writing this offline with the aim of copying and pasting it into our online blog!

So I think the last time we blogged we were in LA. It rained in LA which did put a bit of a dampener on our spirits. However we should not complain as it was pretty much the first rain we had to deal with since leaving the UK!

The tricky thing about keeping a blog is the keeping of the blog. If you are doing so many interesting things that you don't have time to keep the blog, then you don't keep a blog - but if you have time to write it all down, you are probably not doing anything interesting enough for the blog. Perplexing.

A treat for you all...only 2 days after Stu blogged, it is now my turn to do the same :)

The first thing I must note, is that Stu missed out on one of the best things that we did when we were in San Francisco...or I should say that we did on the 1st when we were not up for doing much else! We went to see Avatar in 3D. Now the film was excellent. Nothing too amazing in terms of the storyline, but in 3D it is just so great. It was also our 1st 3D movie and i must say, it is something that I will be doing again :)

Wow. I am super sorry about the lack of updates that have been happening - I'll take full responsibility (and point it at Fiona. Everyone knows she's the lazy one...). Ahem. Anyway, here's what's been happening since we last left you....

27th - Vancouver

So, we arrived at the Dunn compound to find it busy!

Aunt Audrey, David and Sue, Sarah, Emma and Megan, Catherine, Ian, Jamie and Peter...the Dunn family! And what wonderful people they were. The kids ranged from age 5 to age 11 - all of them were very excited about Christmas. In fact, when we arrived they had all been allowed to open one present early. I quickly found my place playing polly pocket with Megan (6)...in fact I was barely allowed to eat my dinner....Stu of course was soon lost to the play station with David and Ian!

Gosh, we've been quite bad at keeping you all up to date - but it's all because we've been having such a great time so forgive us :)