Hello Australia

We arrived in Sydney this morning at 6:00 am. I'm really unsure what time that is everywhere else in the world. Between Georgia, California and now Australia, my clock's a little off. The trip from L.A. to Sydney was 14 1/2 hours and went as well as can be expected. We were luckily able to keep the kids awake until we got on the plane at 10:30 L.A. time. They zonked as soon as their little heads hit the pillows and slept for a large part of the flight. Didn't even wake up for take off (or blast off as the girls insist on calling it)!

It also helped that we had in-flight entertainment. Little TVs were in the back of every chair. We had on demand movies and TV including kid's shows. They even had some video games to play. Surprisingly, the girl's favorite pastime was to cover one complete page of their notebook with stickers. Then they would give it to the flight attendants to post on the plane. One day the two of them are going to lose that ability to wrap people around their little fingers - then where will they be?!

They wowed one lady sitting near us on our flight to L.A. Jason recognized her as one of the NBC football announcers from last year. That's about the only "somebody" we saw. Although we saw a lot of people who thought they were someone! You really see some crazy folks in airports.

We'll keep you posted as we're able. Unsure when we'll be back on.

Down to the wire.

Well, here we are on the day of shipping for our household goods. Those will be the ones that will arrive 3-4 months after we do. This move has been quite a pain. I'm so indecisive that making the decision for what goes in luggage, what's mailed, what's shipped (as of today) and what's stored, is horribly difficult. I'll be glad when it's all done!

For the next two weeks we're living off of bare necessities. Paper and plastic for the kitchen! Guess we'll eat out a lot (that's not much of a change for us). In the meantime I have to do all of the ordinary moving stuff, change of address, etc.

Mom and Betty Sue are taking the kids for a few days. Woo-hoo! Too bad I'll be too busy to enjoy it!