John & Colette's Adventures

Only 1 week left before the packers arrive and do that packing they do so, um, well. Friday they load up the truck and take it all away. After they leave we’ll have our Big Garage Sale! It feels a little odd thinking that in 2 weeks we won’t be in Australia anymore and who [...]

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Only 28 days until we fly back home! Yahoo! I’ve posted pics from Linda & Paul’s trip. We had a great time & I think P & L did too! I had written more but closed the browser before posting and lost everything. So you’re stuck with abridged version until I get around to writing [...]

A wealthy australian is encouraging Aussies to have more babies. There was a full page ad in the sunday paper about it. http://www.play2upnow.com.au/

I’ve been reading a lot about state efforts to impeach Bush. It’s been mostly in lesser known publications, but I think it’s a good thing. At the very least it lets the administration know that a lot of people are upset over the way things are going. Here is an interesting article on it. My [...]

Colette & I spent Saturday night in Brisbane after joining a friend and his family at the Brisbane Lions AFL game. It was a good time, although I think Blake (who’s 5) had enough after about 20 minutes. But that’s ok, it kept us busy trying to keep him distracted. Brisbane won the day 115 [...]

It’s officially two years since leaving Rochester. Of course, our 2 year anniversary in Oz will be Monday, but we like to count from the 18th. We’re looking forward to heading home – only 3 1/2 months to go. In 2 months Paul & Linda are coming down to help us move! Isn’t that nice [...]

Four months left in Australia! Some things we’re looking forward to back in the states (in no particular order): Family Eating hotdogs at a baseball game Breakfast Sausage, Italian Sausage, Pork that tastes like pork Skinny Bacon Unlimited breakfast coffee Eating breakfast for under $20 Garbage Disposal Dishwasher Our own house CATS! Snow (for about [...]

Colette & I went to Sydney and Melbourne for a 5 day holiday. It actually was 6 days but 1 day was work for me (in Sydney) while Colette got to enjoy drinking wine in Darling Harbour. Monday night we were getting ready for our trip when we heard a crash on the front screen [...]

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