Christmas Day

What a lovely start to Christmas Day - even if it was early. Symi was up and ready to open presents at 5am. We managed to delay this til 6. Santa had drunk his whiskey and the reindeers left evidence of carrot eating.

 

Symi had lots of fun opening presents and everyone was very inventive at getting travel friendly ones.

 

After a quick test of Symi's new bike in the street (yes we are taking 3 bikes to the USA) it was off to the beach with more of the family. Mum and Dad, Kirstie and her two - Lachlan and Laura.





 

 

Ready for the Beach - note the red Santa bathers!

 



  

So what takes you home from the beach on a glorious day - BBQ breakfast with Bacon in this case. Pete and Rob once again cooked a fantastic breakfast. After eating and a bit of present swapping it was time to count up the money in Granny and Grandpa's big fat cow. Result - three happy grandchildren with spending money for the summer holidays.Back to Kirstie's later today for a swim followed by ham, turkey and lots of other delicious food.

 

 

Merry Christmas to all.

The Wandering Wallers












 

Increasing the frequency of Blogging

Well as you can see blogging is not taking up much time. The last time I posted anything was in March when I attended the blogging course.

One of the advantages of not blogging too frequently is that you can report good progress between blogs. We have now rented the house, built the shed, finished the lighting and got our visas for the states (skirting boards still pending). We also have tickets booked to Sydney and then on to LA. We have once again started spending time on our iPads looking at potential RVs. We like the look of the Fleetwood Tioga 26Q as it has lots of storage room underneath which will be good for our bikes.

The other news is that Fiona has finished work (paid at any rate) and Symi only has 2 more days of school to go. Writing that does make me realise we have to be out of the house in 5 weeks time.

Not sure when I will next blog but hopefully there will not be another 9 month gap.

Slow start to preparations

We are nearly three months into our 12 months of preparation for our USA RV trip. And what have we done?

Well we have talked about what we need to do, Rob has teased Fiona about her need to "get organised" and apart from that not much else.

What do we need to do?

Starting Out

Here we are at the start of 2013 and the Waller's have decided that 2014 will be the year we travel the USA, get an RV and see the sights. I have decided I had better find out how blogs work. I did go to a talk at our local library last year by a lovely lady Amanda Kendal and found out about free blogging templates - so here I am.

It has taken me about an hour and I have a blog, I've managed to upload a photo, made a few test pages and most importantly found that there is a spell check. What does seem to be a challenge is finding the blog on the ipad which I have next to me. The other thing I am worried about is being able to find this again.

Three days later and I have finally managed to find this blog on the internet. Not sure which of the things I tried worked but whatever it was I am happy. Now I just have to work out how to upload photos.

Thought I had better let anyone who finds and reads this that there may not be a lot happening on here for a bit.