Steve's Mum arrived in Sydney on 27th for her whistle stop tour of Sydney and Ali and her folks drove up from Jervis Bay later that day leaving Rob and Rach to see in the new year with the kids down in Jervis Bay. We have spent the week introducing Steve's Mum to a number of Sydney beaches Bondi, Tamarama, Little Manly (didn't hit the ocean beach as the shark sirens were going as 6 sharks had been spotted just before we arrived) and Parsley Bay with Jackie and ...

Hello and happy new year. It's 2011 here and we have just got back from Dover Heights where we had a picnic and watched the fireworks off the Harbour bridge. We have had the most amazing 2010 with the trip of a lifetime but 2011 is going to be an even more special year. We hope you all have a great new year celebrations and enjoy 2011. Miss you all lots and looking forward to seeing you all when we get home in February.

Rather than staying in Sydney the Wildig families plus Steve headed south to the beautiful Jervis Bay for Christmas for what has been a massive highlight of the trip spending time with family and seeing James and Isabel on top form getting excited about the holidays and of course Father Christmas. Celebrating Christmas day at the beach was odd though for us and neither of us really feel that Christmas has truly happened yet. How can it be Christmas when you haven...

Arriving back from Sydney we headed straight over to have dinner at Andrew and Aimie's. Jo and James also came over and we all cooed over Josh, Andrew and Aimie's four month old son, who was on his best behaviour. After giving James his birthday present - cricket set of course. We then took the ferry over to Manly on Wednesday and met up with Gill, yet another friend from back home, and did a 5km walk along the harbour which was pretty but hot so it was a relief ...

We ended up staying in Adelaide a little longer than planned as our flight on Sunday night was cancelled and we couldn't get on a flight for another 48 hours!! On Friday night we'd gone to the Semaphore working men's club, also hq of the Port Adelaide communist party, not often on this trip we've been the youngest people in a venue, good fun and something a little different. On Saturday we went to Leigh's nieces 4th birthday party which was again something differ...