Well I must start by totally agreeing with Stu's sentiments about the great barrier reef. The day from start to finish was amazing. I was so impressed with the reef. It was beautiful and interesting. Fantastic!!

So we have left Canberra and the comforts of living in a house.

We are now living out of a car about the size of a people mover. During the day we drive and have a seat in the back...and then during the night it becomes our bed. Who knew we would be happy in suhc a small area, but it is ours and it comes where ever we go and it is great.

We left Melbourne and visited Phillip island where we saw Fairy Penguins, Koala and Wallabies..
After this we drove the great ocean road - which was amazing. I know we have done this before but it was amazing again. Lovely weather.

Well, today is our last day in Canberra. I cannot believe that we have been here for over a month. How time flies, particularly when you have a sofa and 10 seasons of friends to watch.

Unfortunately, we have only made it to season 8 - half way through and I think we are going to have to leave it at that since we have our bus tonight and I think the TV is leaving before we do!

Anyway, the last week has been busy. We have both been working. I nannyed Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, and worked at the bar on Friday and Sunday. Meanwhile Stu worked Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

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!)

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!

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 :)

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!

Hey!
Just a quick note to say MERRY CHRISTMAS to everyone...and we will blog more later!!
Love to everyone!
xxx

Toronot was totally awesome. We had such a good time. There was enough to see during the day - we did not do everything that we had planned. Missed out on the CN tower becuase the weather was cloudy and so we did not think it was worth it to go up when we would not see anything.
But we did manage to see "Fort York" which was almost the basis of the beginnings Toronto. We walked along the water front - something that I feel would have been much nicer if it had not been raining and cold...i think i lost feeling in one side of my face!! OOPS!