We returned to Toronto in the first weekend of May to visit the CN Tower. As before, we drove to the Kipling Subway station and caught the subway in to Toronto. This was all very easy. We then took a short walk from Union Station into the entertainment district where, similar to Melbourne, they have […]
2009 Canada Exchange – April
April started quietly, with Liam wanting to stay home more and Rosie and Bruce both needing to rest their tired bodies after all the skiing and driving. On April 5th, the exchange club organized a day at the zoo, since this was teacher’s day, so we could all get in for free. We had already […]
2009 Canada Exchange – March
March is meant to be an awful month since the warm weather starts to come in, which means the snow melts and the rain starts. Everthing is dirty and mushy. So far we haven’t really noticed this, the rain did come and wash away all the snow but then we had a real cold snap. […]
2009 Canada Exchange – February
We drove to Guelph on Saturday morning to pick up the car that Bruce had purchased. He didn’t put a lot of thought into it (cars have never been of that much interest to him). We are now the proud owners of a 2004 Chevi Nova, a little hoon car with a big spoiler on […]
2009 Canada Exchange – January 22
On Thursday, 22nd January, we finally left the US to travel to Canada. We flew out on Air Canada, which surprised us a lot. We were expecting a Qantas and got a Virgin Blue. As you can see from the photo, Las Vegas wants you to get to the casinos quickly, I am sure some […]
2009 Canada Exchange – January 12 – 21
On Monday, January 12th, we went to Legoland. Rosie and Liam have been looking forward to this for nearly 12 months, but we had no real idea what we were coming to see. We are looking up Google Maps each night to find out how to get to each location and have found their instructions […]
2009 Exchange – January 1 – 11
On Thursday, 2nd January, we started Teacher Exchange Year to Ontario in Canada. We caught our flight from Perth to Singapore, then Tokyo and finally Los Angeles. It took a little over 26 hours but it all went well, with Liam thoroughly enjoying the flight. He got several hours sleep during the flight which was […]
2008 December Family Update
In February we applied to go on exchange to Canada (to get away from Bruce’s Principal at the High School) and had a possible link with Greg and Judy very early in the piece. It took a few nerve wracking months for this to be confirmed but eventually all was in place and we started […]
Dani McKillop’s Wedding
Exactly 5 months after Robyn and Merv were married, we had the extravaganza of Danni’s wedding. Rosie and Bruce were privileged to be able to attend this wedding. We started with pre-ceremony drinks then had the ceremony inside since it started to rain. It didn’t affect the event as everything went smoothly. Pre dinner drinks […]
2007 December Family Update
The football season came to an end in September. Liam started off well but became disinterested towards the end. He still enjoyed running around with his friends, but training wasn’t his forte. Megan thoroughly enjoyed her coaching and I enjoyed being team manager. Adam was our umpire. Liam’s teacher enjoyed big projects which got the […]