Visitors

No - we haven't fallen off the earth. Yes - this blog is still active. Yes - I've received the reprimands from several of you about the lack of posts, particularly during such an eventful month. I blame it on my parents, always causing trouble...

So my parents arrived the morning of Jan 22 to finally come check out this awesome place that we're living. And it was so much fun to have them relaxing in our house,


checking out the places we work,


and spending time with their granddogter.

The general itinerary for their trip was as follows:
Week 1: hang out with us and get a glimpse of our lives
Week 2: get away from us crazy kids and spend some time exploring Oz on their own (mostly Kangaroo Island and the Great Ocean Road areas)
Week 3: the 4 of us head to New Zealand to explore the South Island
Week 4: we wrap up our time on the South Island and see a bit of the North Island
Then we had 1 last day in Oz together before they flew home... to a big snow storm.

And although that sounds like a relatively benign schedule, in reality it was anything but relaxed. It's been an action-packed month, and we returned to fairly crazy schedules, too, so more details & pics will follow.