Ingrams on the Road

Today was the day for shopping. Certain items, particularly shoes and clothing are definitely cheaper in the U.S., so figuring that we could spare a morning away from the cocktails and pools we headed off for the Ala Moana shopping centre. Surely it would...

We might be on holidays, but that doesn't mean that domestic duties don't need to be attended to.  Most mornings our routine is much the same.  Anthony gets up to make breakfast for everyone while the rest have cuddles and tickles in bed and the TV usually...

“… 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...

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...

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...

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...