Introducing Scott and Charlene

This morning we were informed that 2 little stress balls from the university would be accompanying us on our Antipodean adventure. You can see Scott (in red) and Charlene (in blue) below as they practice posing for the camera on the top of Luggage Mountain, all ready for their wake-up call tomorrow . It is fair to say that we are not an early morning sort of family so Scott and Charlene are in for a treat at 5am. Poppy V Cat has made two (failed) attempts to stow herself away in our rucksack so we have had to sit her down this evening and gently explain that a long haul flight is no place for a cat with severe motion sickness (nor incidentally is a brand new Nissan but that is a story for another blog perhaps.) We hope she understands and does not bear a grudge. History suggests that this is unlikely...