On Sydney Harbor Cruise

On Sydney Harbor Cruise
On Sydney Harbor Cruise

Monday, November 29, 2010

5 Days to go

Today we received a packet of information from Oprah.  We are staying in LA on Saturday night. We will receive our international Motorola phones and they are giving us a "Munch and Learn" lesson on Sunday afternoon at the hotel on how to use them.
We will leave LAX for our non-stop, 14 hour flight to Sydney on Sunday.They have events planned for us in Sydney before we depart for a "3-day regional territory experience" on Wednesday.  They have not given us any details as to where we'll be going or what we'll be doing yet.  They are keeping many surprises for us 'til we get "down under." 
Hilton Head visit


Sunday, November 28, 2010

One week from tonight we are on the plane from LA to Sydney!

Well, we are down to one week!  Tomorrow we get our info. pack from Oprah.  Check out this web site from the Orlando Sentinel regarding Oprah's Show on Monday Oprah's Australian Preview show .  I'll be watching it at 4:00.
Most of the Christmas decorations are up and some shopping has been done.  The rest will be done in Australia (how cool does that sound)!  I'm off to iron a few things I'm bringing but the real packing will wait until Friday.  Tomorrow's post will have info on what exactly our tripof a life time will entail.

Friday, November 26, 2010

8 days and counting

I hope everyone had a terrific turkey day.  George and I coordinated the dinner here in our community.  We had 100 questes.  The past two days were very busy and the Australia trip had to take a back burner (almost litterally).  With the help of many others we roasted over 100 pounds of turkey (7 big birds), 40 pounds of "real" mashed potatoes and all the other traditional fixin's in huge quantities!  All went well!
So today I'm taking down all the fall decorations and stating to put up Christmas.  I want to have everything all decorated for the holiday before I leave.  I'm doing most of my holiday shopping in Australia, even sending out my cards from down under.
No news on our final itinerary yet.  You'll know shortly after I do.
For those of you that mentioned yu were having trouble getting the Boston Globe article on our friendship here is the link  Friendship Boston Globe Article, Nov. 20, 2010

Sunday, November 21, 2010

2 weeks to go


I'm hoping that I will be able to use this blog to communicate with y'all while I'm in Australia with Oprah.
We will be leaving for Los Angleles on Saturday, December 4th, staying overnight there and then flying out late at night on Sunday, December 5th.  We are supposed to be going on one of those huge Quantas A 380s that were just grounded.  Hopefully, they'll be the safest thing in the air within the next two weeks.
We will stay for a while in Sydney and attend an Oprah show at the Opera House before we return.  Other than those plans, we are still awaiting many surprises.  They have told us that we will receive a full intinerary the week before we leave.  I'll update this blog when I have more news.

Monday, November 1, 2010

34 days and counting

I'm trying this blog thing.  Figure I'll need a month or so to figure it all out. I'm also working on Facebook.  All this e-stuff is too much for my old mind.  I'm hoping to link this blog up with Facebook.  We'll see.