A Full Circle

To all our friends both near and far:

Its hard to believe that this will be our final blog entry!!!!

The team met up on Sunday 16 September to reminise and catch up. The photo is from the same location (my backyard) and its feels like full circle as our first meeting was in the same place and almost the same weekend..... one year ago.

It was fantastic to find out what everyone has done since they have been home. Jeffrey came home straight to family. Clare and Robert went onto Hong Hong after the exchange and are now settled back into life here in Perth. Jill and Andrew went hiking and camping through California and Canada. For me I got to see old friends and even one of my host mums which was just fantastic. Suzanne arrived home only 2 weeks ago having been through Central America and even survived Cyclone Dean in Jamaica. See Suzanne's blog for her journey on http://www.suzannespitz.blogspot.com/ . Jeffrey and Jill have also both started their new jobs and are loving it.

I know I speak for the team when I say the trip was one of life's most amazing journeys and we can't thank people enough for everything they did for us. Looking back through our blog (thank goodness Jill suggested it) just shows how much we have done and the people that we met.

We have even had our first visitors from District 5330 with PDG Helene and Len visiting for 10 days. It was fantastic to see them and catch up. We also got to spend their 42nd wedding anniversary with them.

We have done a little video message which can be seen below and a copy will be winging its way over to you all soon with some photos of our time with each of the clubs and out host families.

If you need an excuse to come and stay just ask Helene about all the reasons you can use from the beaches, sailing, scenery, food (don't ask len about spicy though), wine, and most of all our hospitality.

So from all of us here in WA, its bye for now, we hope to see you soon, stay in touch and thank you for making our time in the Inland Empire something none of us will ever forget.