I have less than 2 weeks left in Australia. The last month has gone so quickly and I have actually been kept very busy! Even the weekends have been busy! It's been a bit of a blur. Aaron received his Australian passport and then had to send it off to get his UK visa. This took a while. In the meantime, we decided to just bite the bullet and go ahead and book the tour to Southeast Asia that I so badly wanted to do. We leave Adelaide for Bangkok on 27th July. The t...

Well, May is over already and we're already into the first week of June. I missed my Aunty Liane's 50th birthday back home and have just missed mum and dad's anniversary and will be missing Nai's birthday, Dad's birthday and Father's Day next week. It's going to be a busy couple of months with missing birthdays as there are quite a few of you! I got through the rest of May with only a minor bout of tonsilitis a week after coming out of hospital and took another ...

I know it's been a while since I updated this blog and added photos, and I'm sorry. I have pretty much been ill since I last put anything up on this site. I got tonsillitis again and it was another bad one. Got prescribed antibiotics (again) and this time was told I need my tonsils out. I tried to get a doctor to admit me to hospital as I was pretty desperate to get them out and that would have been the only way my travel insurance company would have paid for the...

I didn't spend as much time in Melbourne as I would have liked, but the trouble I had finding accomodation became too much to deal with each day, so I booked myself onto an over night bus to Adelaide and after only one phonecall had myself booked into a backpackers hostel near the bus station in the city too! It was all so easy. The bus journey was fine apart from a crying new born baby, a very smelly man with a drum and lots of snoring echoing around me! Almost ...