Hello family! The blog has been very quiet the past few months...hope everyone is well and willing to start blogging again. I miss the updates!
After a rocky start Rachael sounds like she is having an absolute blast on her Contiki tour. Homesickness and jetlag hit with a double whammy during the first week, and I had a couple of teary phone calls asking for an early return. She's put all that behind her, and over the past few weeks we've gotten texts such as: "I just ate a snail!"; "Rollerblading in Nice"; "I'm having lots of fun!"; "Went on a gondola ride in Venice"; "I went parasailing in Greece and got dragged behind a speed boat on an inflatable couch which was hilarious!"; "We drove all around Corfu in a convertible so we could see everything". Sounds like a bunch of kids having the time of their lives! We'll be hearing stories for months after she arrives home on the 13th of October (not that I'm counting the days...)Hopefully there will be some blog-worthy photos to share!
The rest of us are fine - not much news. Ken has been putting some finishing touches and painting Rachael's room while she's away. Emily is on school holidays for 2 weeks, and then is back at school for the final term of Year 10! She plans to take Music, Drama, Ancient History and Modern History as her elective subjects next year. I'm enjoying a week off from work and was hoping to spend some time with Em, but she is deep into a story on a "Fan Fiction" site and can't drag herself away from her computer for long!
That's all for now - be in touch soon! Love to all, Elli
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