We've Moved House and Liz Has Her Tonsils Removed

It has been a busy couple of weeks for the family. I failed to mention that while I managed to get a quick run out on the boat, Liz was coordinating the removalist to pick up what is left of our belongings. We have shed all of our furniture via listing on Ebay, Gumtree and a couple of trips to the salvation army. It is a great relief to have sold these items and significantly reduced the amount of STUFF that we own. There was still 60 boxes of stuff left over. 10 for the boat, 15 for Sydney and the remainder are for storage in the farm shed at banjosrun.com.au.

Amongst the fuss of packing up a house and moving temporarily into the in laws house our daughter, Olivia, was named the student of the week in her prep class. Part of the reward was that she was able to look after the class mascot, Clive the crocodile, for the weekend. She was so proud and so were we. Here is Clive eating breakfast and climbing a tree.

To top it all off Liz went in to hospital this morning to have her tonsils out. She suffers from tonsillitis at least 3 times a year and as part of our preparations for cruising more remote areas it was advised that they be removed. Otherwise we would have had to carry an almost endless supply of antibiotics. So at 6am this morning we piled the family into the car and dropped liz off to the hospital. She waited from 6.30am till 1pm before they took her into the operating theatre. It all went well and I took the kids to see her this evening. All going well she will be home tomorrow morning.

Our move to Sydney is dependent on Liz's recovery. All going well we will be driving up in convoy to Sydney the first weekend of June. Hopefully we can spend the Queens birthday weekend out on the boat. We have been watching the weather and there really is about a 4 degree increase in the temp in Sydney compared to Melbourne. The 5 degree temp at 6 this morning was not good. The cold went right through me.

It's only 11 days till we drive north.