It's over :( The sun was shining, we'd arranged breakfast in the park with Minnie and her friends as our farewell breakfast to end our trip. We spent the rest of the day doing all the rides we all loved the most at Disneyland - Autopia for Max, Space Mountain for Gab and I, Dumbo for Emerson and Toy Story Midway Mayhem for all of us. We spent our last few hours in Toontown, a new land we hadn't been to before. If I could reset the clock to when I was 16 I'd ...

All packed, the car is already brimming with our luggage! 20mins before the car arrived Emerson whined: When will we be there? I told them we're spending the next two days at a Soy Bean farm, 5am bean picking and everything. They'll burst when they see where we are going :)

The grey had fought a confident battle against my youth, it was clearly not going to let up until the entire beard had fallen. There was only one obvious response, break out the daisy cutter and unleash a scorched earth policy on the beard. Just when I thought victory was mine, the grey had a final sting in its dying tail for me, under the beard my skin is a pasty, lifeless, grey, I need SPF60+ The barber was petrified he had misunderstood, he clarified s...

Take off is getting very close now. The house is a flutter with packing, weighing, repacking...The kids are getting very excited. Emerson unpacked her travel journal and pens (a gift from awesome Auntie NJ) and did a few drawings to make sure we all knew how she felt. First we're all flying together on a plane through love heart shaped clouds to Switzerland, I don't know if she's excited about Switzerland itself, or it has the easiest flag... Next was the family...