Where history was made

Where history was made

“… a date that will live in infamy”, was how Franklin D. Roosevelt described the attack on Pearl Harbour on December 7th 1941. An act that finally brought the previously isolationist U.S. into World War II left an enduring scar on U.S. history. Today we visited Pearl...
Time travel equals Exhaustion

Time travel equals Exhaustion

We all did pretty well to stay functional on our first day without sleep but after collapsing into bed after the fireworks we all fell into a deep sleep. A sleep that went on and on and saw us surfacing the next morning at 10am. By the time we had breakfast in our...
Time Travel

Time Travel

Friday morning, Melbourne, 3 degrees and overcast. We awoke excited – today was trip day. We had several hours before we had to leave for the airport. Just as well really, given that in the rush to finish off work Megan and Anthony still had not packed for the...
Hawaii here we come

Hawaii here we come

As our big trip was coming to an end, our happy memories were tempered with the knowledge that when we landed in Melbourne on Australia Day we would need to hit the ground running. We landed on the Friday and by the following Monday Megan was back at work and the kids...