http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Eero-and-Sarah Our honeymoon across the globe Sat, 03 May 2008 20:13:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I think we finally have all our photos posted now. If you are interested they are still at www.eeroandsarahphotos.shutterfly.com. http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Eero-and-Sarah/photos.html Well as some of you already know and for those who don't, we are now back on Canadian soil! We arrived back in Toronto last Friday evening. We had a busy weekend with the wedding of Sarah's good friends Amelia and Clarke on Saturday, and then a busy week trying ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Eero-and-Sarah/canada.html We had a good time in Singapore but it was way too hot and humid. On our first day there we decided to take the Singapore airlines hop-on, hop-off tour bus, but after waiting an hour for it, it was overflowing with people so we got off after about 1 ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Eero-and-Sarah/singapore.html While in Melbourne we were lucky enough to stay with Kim and Jim and their 2 Border Collies, Mellon and Brock, who live in Rosanna, a suburb of Melbourne. Kim is Eero's godfather Dave's cousin. We had a nice dinner with them on the first night we arrived. On our ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Eero-and-Sarah/melbourne.html After arriving at the Avalon airport outside of Melbourne around lunchtime, we picked up our rental car, and set out to drive the Great Ocean Road. The 273km Great Ocean Road was built by 3000 returned servicemen as a war memorial for fellow servicemen who had been killed in the ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Eero-and-Sarah/the-great-ocean-road.html On our first full day in Sydney we set off through the Royal Botanical Gardens towards the famous Sydney Opera House. We had a nice stroll through the gardens and got a great view across to the opera house and the Harbour Bridge. We decided not to take a tour ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Eero-and-Sarah/sydney.html We've been having such a great time playing with the kids, that Sarah and I decided to start our own family right away. So we adopted an Australian. It's a big step, but we've already bought our first house (Vanna White) on this trip, so it is a logical next ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Eero-and-Sarah/starting-an-aussie-family.html Flying into Sydney, we were picked up by Eero's relatives on his father's side, Peter and June Raengel. We were driven down to their city of Wollongong, and met their son Peter, and grandchildren Peter and Bonnie for a delicious meal. The next day we got driven down to Canberra, the capital of Australia. ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Eero-and-Sarah/wollongong-and-canberra.html After the Whitsundays we flew back to Brisbane on April 6th where we were picked up by Liz, Eero's second cousin-in-law, and taken to their place in Dayboro on the outskirts of Brisbane.  On our 1st day in Dayboro, Rick and Liz took us and their kids, Jacob (5), Tom(3), Kate(3), and Alice(17 ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Eero-and-Sarah/adventures-in-brisbane.html After Fiji we returned to NZ for a little over a week so that Eero could get his new teeth, finish up physio and see the orthopedic surgeon one last time. Then on April 1st we hopped a plane over the Tasman Sea to Brisbane (aka Brisvegas), Australia. From there ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Eero-and-Sarah/bye-bye-nz-hello-australia.html