Donna and the kids flew out on Wednesday. It was hard saying goodbye, knowing I won't see them for the next month, but it's just the way things worked out. We had a stream of visitors dropping by the house during the morning, coming by for that one last hug and a photo, and more tears were shed. I also drove Kate down to Sunrise to pick up her reference for doing volunteer work there.

So after a frantic last few days of packing, unpacking and repacking to try and get the suitcases evenly weighted (it didn't work - we still got hit with $105 worth of overweight charges) I finally drove them to Pearson Airport where we said our goodbyes before they headed through the security gates to start their 23 hour journey back to Australia.

See you in a month guys! XXX