Saturday arrives bright, clear & warm. We set off towards Sallie's daughter Jenny and her husband Scott's house south of Brisbane in Logan where they have a large 6 bedroom home with a large garden. However, Jenny already had a houseful as Tania (Sallie's youngest) & her 2 children had come from Victoria & Julie & Dale (Sallie's eldest daughter) had come over from Perth. With all the various children to be housed as well ourselves, Sallie, Nikki &...

As you can guess, we are still catching up, so we are still verbally in California. Tuesday September 25th dawns bright & clear and promptly at 9.30am we meet up with Guy's best buddy Dragon who works for a Limo company carting people around the vineyards, wine tasting. Dragon, who we know of old (he's become my second son & he calls me Mom!) has organised a trip for us. As you can see by the photo, he arrives in style in the longest Limo we have ever see...

Up and running again at last. In case you didn't get the email we sent, Apple did a big update to its system and messed up the offexploring site. It has taken 2 weeks to get a 'fix' done by which time we had reached Australia so I am afraid that although the photo is of San Francisco the location bit can't be altered back to the US. Monday Sept 23rd. We went on the ferry from Larkspur to San Francisco which took around half an hour. This meant we didn't have to...

Wednesday, Thursday & Friday spent time with my sister Sallie catching up with everything to do with family. Sallie also took us on a car ride re visiting the area around Noosa. The photo is of me doing a bit of tropical gardening, helped by Spencer Sallie's little Maltese cross puppy. On Friday Sallie & I treated ourselves to a manicure & really decadent pedicure. You are sat in this large massage chair with your feet in a foot spa while being thorou...