Well here we are! Melbourne, Victoria. Our new hometown. It is on facebook. That makes it real.
I wanted to right a very quick blog to neatly wrap up the last few years of our adventures. Man oh man! August 2009 saw us packing our bags after a really difficult time in Amsterdam and heading across the ocean to start a new life in Canada.
Our mission was simply to have fun and enjoy the 2nd lease on life we’d been lucky enough to be given. We feel like we have succeeded.
The time we spent in Canada was best of our lives. We made such amazing friends that we miss already! We explored one of the worlds greatest countries from north to south and east to west. Well almost … we never made it to Newfoundland but that remains high on the bucket list. We braved 2 Canadian winters. Ottawa winters at that! We trekked through the Peruvian Andes. We explored some great Northern US cities and fell in love with Canadian cities. To top it off, we even had some career successes.
We never dreamed that our Canadian adventure would lead to me being a housewife of Orange County! The Californian dream was pretty fun to experience for a while but we were both surprised by how quickly you can come to realize where you don’t want to live forever. Ottawa stole our hearts over time and by the time we left we were confident that we could happily live there forever. Southern California was a visual feast to begin with and, whilst it was a great place to visit, it didn’t take us long to realize it is not somewhere we could see ourselves long term.
But we did have a great time exploring the state. Yosemite National Park easily wins the ‘J&J best national park’ award (an esteemed award might I add). We loved it. We have yet to see a national park that tops it and we have visited a fair few national parks. Napa Valley is gorgeous and almost as beautiful as Margaret River or Stellenbosch … almost ;P
California also gave us a wonderful insight into what life down under would be like … can you say endless summer?
And so here we are, married and back in the land down under in the middle of summer! We’re house hunting and starting new jobs and meeting new people. All in all this is going to be another big adventure and we are so excited to be doing it together!
Life seems to be taking us to all kinds of different places, we feel very lucky to be going to all of them together.
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