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Thursday, January 12, 2006

Welcome to my blogger. (note the wording on the hat).

You can click on any piccie to see a larger version. You may also right-click and "save picture as" to your own pc.

It's now 11th Jan06. The Main Event is in two months time. see; www.Scotland2006.com and www.AbundanceByChoice.com (i built this site myself)

Took this piccie last week in Austria =>



















Short summary since 1st Nov 2005

In Nov 05, Leanne and I went to Sydney...
I was away for three weeks via HK.


With a one-year working visa, Leanne planned to stay in Oz at least until the Main Event in March (returning the day before the big event), but she couldn't stay away, and came back to surprise us all on 23rd Dec.





































We also went to Magnetic Island on the Great Barrier Reef, hired a Mini Moke (I almost run over a wild Kangaroo). I was determined not to leave until i had seen a wild Koala... and i did!!



Christmas was spent surprising the family, cos they didn't expect to see Leanne back in UK.

Christmas day itself was a crap day! Leanne & I had been arguing basically every day since she returned, and this was the worst!

I was messing around (as i do), having fun. She was on bathroom scales in her mum's house. After she spotted me standing on scales behind her, I decided to stand on toilet seat, pretending that i was gonna weigh down her shoulders. Suddenly, the seat broke!!!

Leanne went ape-shit at me ! She wouldn't calm down, esp not as i was laughing!

Eventually it became serious as she went OTT. I got replacement pins & fixed the seat next day (fortunately there are two toilets), it cost me a grand total of £2.99

As a surprise xmas gift, i booked us into Happy House in Austria for New Year... Really couldn't afford any luxuries, but since i had paid them a deposit in Aug05 and hadn't been yet, and the flights by Ryanair from Stansted to Linz were only £2 each way (plus taxes etc), i went for it.

The return flights were gonna cost £400+ to return on 3rd Jan, so i thought, if we could get cheaper return flights, we could justify staying longer (equates to cost of hotel accom).

By coincidence, the cheapest return flights (£2 each) was on 9th Jan - Leanne's 27th b/day !

Last year we were in Rome on her b/day (her treat), and she'd determined to always be out of UK on her b/day, and so it came about.

So we left Happy House on 4th (I was bored with so little to do, in hindsight, i was just beginning to relax - one more day would've been ace), and headed to Vienna. From there, next day to Panhans hotel in Semmering for 3 days of ski-ing.

Never seen so much snow!! Visibility not great, but still good fun for 3days. Leanne only did two runs on last day, so i got to go and blast my quads for a few hours alone - I loved that!

Vienna has some pretty sights (50 Museums), but it was VERY cold in Jan!!

And there are still some sights that leave you realising how lucky we really are...