Vancouver, BC

Two days in lovely Vancouver before boarding our cruise - mainly sightseeing and walking.

The hire car in which we drove
from Seattle

Friday 6th to Monday 9th August

Family dinner with Henri, Lisa, Franc,

Bingus, Paula, Eddy, Gerry & Sue

Flew from Flagstaff to Seattle and had a wonderful long weekend with our Seattle cousins, the Fischers. Eddy (a sprightly 90 who won the Nobel Prize 18 years ago), together with eldest son Francois, younger son Henri and his wife Lisa and daughter Paula with her husband "Bingus" helped make a wonderful Friday night family dinner. Saturday - spent driving around and went to the Mariners baseball game in the evening - great atmosphere at Safeco Field. Sunday - went up the Space Needle and had a great fondue dinner at home. Monday - visited the Boeing factory at Everett and then picked up a car and drove across the border to Vancouver in British Columbia, Canada. 

Eddy, Gerry & Franc dressed for
the ball game

Eddy and Sue at breakfast on Sunday

Eddy, Sue and Franc at
the Space Needle

Thursday 5th August 2010

Travelled down to Sedona today and saw the most amazing mountain & rock formations. Had lunch at Enchantment Resort at the foot of the rocky outcrops.

Wednesday 4th August 2010

Departed Melbourne, bound for LA - a champagne take-off in the new A380.

From LA to Flagstaff, Arizona, where we met up with Jerry & Jolene Huffman and spent a lovely afternoon with them.

After lunch,we visited some old Indian ruins in the desert.

Tuesday 3rd August (D-Day minus 1)

Another farewell dinner, this time with the Melbourne Branch, at the famous Palmerston Hotel with its even more famous Chicken Parmiagano - a taste of things to come....

Departure from Perth - Sunday 1st August

Following a family farewell dinner, we left Perth on Sunday morning for a few days with the "Melbourne branch" family.