We all agreed that playing with Rory is the most fun thing to do. Here’s Rory doing one of his trademark “hands on head – oh no!” games. It truly never gets old! Rory was always willing to drop everything and get us to put our hands on our heads…

When this blogger loses the moment and needs to catch up with posts long after they happened, describing days chronologically doesn’t work so well. After Boxing Day in Sydney, the great times continued as I’ll show in the next few posts organized by themes: playing in water, playing on land,…

More Sydney stories to come but this news item couldn’t wait… Today we adopted Roux, another Guinea pig!  We are currently bonding them. This involves letting them discover each other in a controlled setting. We introduced lots of snacks to ease the process. Roux really likes carrots, maybe because he…

We had a lovely meet up with Kathleen and Cyril at the Sydney Fish Market on the second Monday of our stay. Great catching up with them over the catch of the day – fish and chips and pacific oysters! Kathleen was so kind to bake us a Christmas cake…

liam asks the first day we’re back in Chicago?  

In my drive to get the blog going, I got some things out of order and I also missed a few pics. Sorry about that! The second day we were here we went to sushi train in maroubra. It’s what it sounds like, check out the video made by Liam:…

After a Boxing Day / Christmas Day skype with nana and and grandpa, we went for morning coffee with Colette, Colman and Rory on the beach at Coogee. Then while CC&R went back home to watch the cricket, we walked from Coogee to Bondi. From the quick intro we got…

Also on Christmas we visited with Colette and Coleman’s friends Val and John with their kids Shona and Darragh, then opened presents    Had a fantastic Christmas dinner cooked by Colette and Colman  Then after Rory went to bed we had dessert including Christmas pudding, Christmas cake and mince pies.…

We went to town on Christmas Eve to see the decorations in the queen Victoria building It’s hard to explain and hard to even understand in person but the tree fills a three story high atrium. The tree is covered in Swarovski crystal. Lovely! Santa’s grotto in Sydney is covered…

 After a flight that really didn’t feel too bad at all, we arrived in Sydney and were sent by the customs agent to the line marked with a little sign that read K9. Yes! We are still batting 1000 in the ‘getting sniffed by a super cute biosecurity dog upon…