I caught the Bolt Bus back to New York and luckily for me they let me take two big bags on.
Actually it was more a matter of, I don’t think they noticed, rather than they let me. But anyway.
As you may have remembered by reading the posts of my trip with Nicola, I accumulated a lot of things on this road trip. I may have only been able to fly out of Australia with one bag weighing 20kg but I can fly home with two, each weighing 23kg.
Thank goodness. Because boy will I need it.
Sybil had a duffel type bag that she didn’t want which has saved me buying one and this is now sitting in Fiona and Bob’s living room filled with summer clothes, my sleeping bag and all the presents I have bought.
So what did I do for the week I spent in New York this time?
Well as some of you may know I was going to a pot luck dinner at Hugh Jackman and Debbora-lee Furness’s house. But then Fiona found out it was just for the parents on the committee at school for adopted children (Kiki goes to the same one as their daughter), so I couldn’t go. But I made some Anzacs for them to take. I have to say I’m a bit embarrassed about them as the first batch didn’t turn out so great but I didn’t have time to make any more before the dinner so those ones had to do. I have since made more which turned out perfectly. I needed to use up the golden syrup. I mean what is Fiona going to do with it? It’s not a common ingredient there and she had to order it in for me. Actually she ended up with two tins as the first one didn’t turn up in time so she went to the English shop and got some.
Even though I didn’t get to go to the dinner I did get to meet Debborah-lee and have a chat one day when we picked up Kiki from school. Her Mum lives in Mt. Eliza (small world and all that). It would be great to talk more to her about her foundation called Orphan Angels. She wants to get changes made in Australia when it comes to international adoption (plus other areas of children in need) which we are badly in need of. In 2008 there were only 270 children adopted internationally. That’s appalling considering there is approximately 143 million orphans worldwide. The 16th - 22nd November is National Adoption Awareness Week in Australia. Debborah-lee started it last year and it’s a fantastic way to have a voice about adoption. Have a look at this site. You may not be interested in adopting but you can still be informed and educated about it. Some of the statistics are mind blowing if not completely horrifying.
www.adoptionawarenessweek.com.au
Actually it was more a matter of, I don’t think they noticed, rather than they let me. But anyway.
As you may have remembered by reading the posts of my trip with Nicola, I accumulated a lot of things on this road trip. I may have only been able to fly out of Australia with one bag weighing 20kg but I can fly home with two, each weighing 23kg.
Thank goodness. Because boy will I need it.
Sybil had a duffel type bag that she didn’t want which has saved me buying one and this is now sitting in Fiona and Bob’s living room filled with summer clothes, my sleeping bag and all the presents I have bought.
So what did I do for the week I spent in New York this time?
Well as some of you may know I was going to a pot luck dinner at Hugh Jackman and Debbora-lee Furness’s house. But then Fiona found out it was just for the parents on the committee at school for adopted children (Kiki goes to the same one as their daughter), so I couldn’t go. But I made some Anzacs for them to take. I have to say I’m a bit embarrassed about them as the first batch didn’t turn out so great but I didn’t have time to make any more before the dinner so those ones had to do. I have since made more which turned out perfectly. I needed to use up the golden syrup. I mean what is Fiona going to do with it? It’s not a common ingredient there and she had to order it in for me. Actually she ended up with two tins as the first one didn’t turn up in time so she went to the English shop and got some.
Even though I didn’t get to go to the dinner I did get to meet Debborah-lee and have a chat one day when we picked up Kiki from school. Her Mum lives in Mt. Eliza (small world and all that). It would be great to talk more to her about her foundation called Orphan Angels. She wants to get changes made in Australia when it comes to international adoption (plus other areas of children in need) which we are badly in need of. In 2008 there were only 270 children adopted internationally. That’s appalling considering there is approximately 143 million orphans worldwide. The 16th - 22nd November is National Adoption Awareness Week in Australia. Debborah-lee started it last year and it’s a fantastic way to have a voice about adoption. Have a look at this site. You may not be interested in adopting but you can still be informed and educated about it. Some of the statistics are mind blowing if not completely horrifying.
www.adoptionawarenessweek.com.au
What else did I do? Well it was a week of sleeping in. Naturally. I also convinced Fiona to buy a microwave (I tried last visit but she wasn’t up for it but it was great for popcorn the night I babysat Kiki) and while we were at the shop suggested a new phone as the old one has seen better days. Ended up being a good thing as the new one doesn’t make the internet drop out when you use it. Plus it has two handsets, so when the phone rings they have a much better chance of actually being able to answer it because surely both won’t be missing. Then again……………….. if she put it back in the cradle instead of leaving it lying on the table (where it gets buried under stuff) then it wouldn’t be a problem. Plus it would always be charged.
Fiona’s response? “Why would I put it back in the cradle? It’s much better on the table. That way I don’t have to walk to the other side of the room if I want to use it.”
Right.
Who would want to walk all that way? I mean a whole six steps. That’s just absurd..
I also went out to lunch a few times. On the last day, as well as Fiona and Bob, I met with Carol and Alla from Half The Sky. That’s the organization I went to China with in 2007. Carol was organizing the volunteer’s back then and it was great to catch up with her again and Alla I had never met before. But a great thing that I found out was that Half The Sky is getting registered in Australia!!!!!!! Yay!!!!!!!!
So the week went really quickly as always and before I knew it I was back on the Bolt Bus to New Jersey to spend the night with Sybil again before driving to Vermont the next day.
Fiona’s response? “Why would I put it back in the cradle? It’s much better on the table. That way I don’t have to walk to the other side of the room if I want to use it.”
Right.
Who would want to walk all that way? I mean a whole six steps. That’s just absurd..
I also went out to lunch a few times. On the last day, as well as Fiona and Bob, I met with Carol and Alla from Half The Sky. That’s the organization I went to China with in 2007. Carol was organizing the volunteer’s back then and it was great to catch up with her again and Alla I had never met before. But a great thing that I found out was that Half The Sky is getting registered in Australia!!!!!!! Yay!!!!!!!!
So the week went really quickly as always and before I knew it I was back on the Bolt Bus to New Jersey to spend the night with Sybil again before driving to Vermont the next day.
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