Margaret River, WA

Well ...we're at Margaret River in Western Australia for a week and we have been tasting wine and eating like a house on fire. Since I'm not drinking so much still, I get to be the DD and Bluey and Newbie are the Designated Drinkers and they are taking their job seriously. So for two days I've been getting "Its only 20 mins to 5:00 pm we can fit another one in before they close". I exaggerate for effect of course but we are having fun discovering little out of the way small wineries and other points of interest

We are going to move to another little boutique hotel tomorrow and then into Perth, Freemantle actually, for the weekend and then back home to HB. It’s School Holidays and that's how I can get away.

I have been having a great time back at work. The school has more students then ever and a lot of stuff got built, added and improved in the year I was away. They still like me, I don't get as much time with individual students as I like. It’s more administration now but that's okay too. I'm getting to be a serious multitasker! I do love it though, especially when I get to work with the kids.

I've been having some time off for tests lately. I went down over Easter and had my annual bone marrow aspiration on Good Friday! There I am spread eagled in a loose toga with the doc poking me with a sword in the side. I thought I was in an Easter pageant! I won't get my results for a few weeks but the doc said my blood tests that morning were "excellent". I also had all the other tests the following Tuesday so we stayed in Brisbane for the week end and did tourist stuff. Those test results are not in yet but the lung test guy showed me the results and they were up to my usual best and a tiny bit higher then when I started out over a year ago. I was stoked.

All this means that our plans for a trip to Canada are going ahead and we have booked tickets!

We leave on the 23rd of May and get back on June 13th. I haven't worked out the exact internal stuff but we are going straight to Calgary and stopping in Victoria on the way back. We also have plans for the 31st of May in Calgary Regan's wedding and the 26th of May in Calgary ...we want to celebrate JC's Birthday! Any suggestions? Other than that we are still filling in the blanks.

Anyway that is our big news.

More later
Chris