We’ve had a great Christmas so far, and it’s only midday! John and I did some yoga on the beach at Coogee     The trees along the beach are sculpted looking, like they just got haircuts      Colette, Colman and Rory came over to our place in Coogee for breakfast.…

On Friday we went to Garfield Park in the morning, which was a great escape from what was a very cold and rainy day. We enjoyed the variety of plants, all the greens and the very pleasant humid air. Nice to represent Sydney University while out and about, Liam! There’s an…

Tuesday we picked up Nana and Grandpa from Union Station after their train arrived early from Kansas City. Liam is a bit perplexed about why his 2.5 hour train journey from Urbana-Champaign is always at least an hour late, when a train coming all the way from Kansas City (with…

Hello, Readers! We’ve received some feedback that suggested we could possibly post a bit more frequently, and we agree that a more frequent posting schedule would be nice. We did some fun and long overdue things in the lead up to Thanksgiving. First, I took the car into get a…

Miles and some other students (who remain unseen in this video) did this project for their health class. The assignment was to describe how to make a healthy snack. Watch out all you cooking channels, Miles’s youtube presence may go viral! Quick explanation – he is wearing face paint and…

We drove to Urbana-Champaign today to bring him a few things, take him to lunch, see how his house is progressing, and give him lots of hugs! Here are a few scenes in front of his house. For this one we turned around and positioned ourself with the neighbor across…

Liam moved back to college today, his summer internship finished and classes starting Monday. We didn’t have room in the car for Frank, so he is staying here with us. This year Liam moved into a big house with friends rather than live in the dorm another year. They have…

For the last several years Liam or Miles has done trapeze camp after their weeks of junior counselor volunteer work ends. Trapeze camp, which does culminate in a trapeze performance, also includes other circus tricks like the high wire, hoops, silks (also seen at Cirque du Soleil) and the triple…

We noticed that our normally very peppy Mr T was very sluggish and not at all well this morning, which was cause for alarm since he’s always been a very healthy and active guinea pig. I took him to the vet that specializes in exotic pets (I saw a parrot…

How rude to post a series of blog posts about a road trip with no map! Here’s an annotated google map showing some of the places I mentioned.