In eight hours we’ll be at the airport, ready to on a ‘plane to Australia. I’m so looking forward to it!

It’s been a hectic few days and we’re all ready for some time away together, some laughing, some sleeping(!), swimming, walking, adventuring and researching.

Because this is the big research trip. We’ll look at areas of the Queensland coast and hopefully narrow it down to a few places we think we might like to live. If we’re really lucky, we might even find somewhere we all love. Either way, we’ll look at schools, houses, banks, bike paths, beaches, sports facilities and a whole lot of other things we have on our (long) list.

We also want to take the kids to visit with some of my family and to at least one theme park and the Australia Zoo, as well as camping and hiking. It’ll be great!

My plan is to write in to this blog every now and then so I can look back later and see what we’ve done but it’ll probably be a bit erratic for a little while. Have a great summer!