Keeping You Up With The Joneses: Visit to Sydney & Christmas in Adelaide 2007

Well, it's been a while since we've gotten back from our holiday, but better late than never! Seeing as my nephews were born just before Christmas, we decided to head home to meet them. After a bad start to the trip (BA delaying our flight to Frankfurt so that we missed our Qantas one to Sydney and had to overnight in Frankfurt!!), it was great to finally arrive in Sydney, even if it was pouring with rain! That was a positive though as the cricket Ben was supposed to go to but missed because of BA had been washed out!! We spent the week in Sydney rushing around catching up with friends and doing a lot of paperwork with banks and rental properties! Not the most relaxing of weeks, but great to catch up with those we managed to see. It was also good we were very busy as the weather wasn't the best, so we weren't wanting to spend our whole time on the beach!!

Our last day in Sydney on Coogee Beach - this was the nicest weather we'd had all week!

Our bad luck with flights continued when we flew to Adelaide and were stuck on the tarmac in Sydney for 2 hours! But we finally made it to Adelaide where we went straight to the hospital to see the Twins! They were gorgeous and Mum and Dad were getting into the swing of things. We had a really nice time in Adelaide, really just relaxing with the family (Ben's parents and brother came to Adelaide as well) and seeing as much of the twins as possible.

Our first meeting with the Twins! I was holding Joshua and Ben was holding Jonty!

Cara unpacking all the baby clothes I'd brought from London (and Ben wondering how much I'd spent!!) and Detlef and Cara with Joshua and Jonty. They were still both so small!

Christmas Day was very pleasant, we all went to my Dad's place for lunch and had a great day sitting in the sun and playing cricket and table tennis. It was also great meeting all of Sharon's (my Dad's partner) family.

The sporting action on Christmas Day!

Christmas cuddles with the Twins! The nurses in the hospital had put them in Christmas outfits!

Me with my Mum and Mum's new puppy, Gwinny (she's a labrodoodle and a real princess!)

We really enjoyed our time at home and were pleased that the weather finally warmed up for us and managed to get some sun and beach time! We also managed to catch up with our good friends George and Anita and to finally meet their little son Lukas. It was great catching up with them and their family - although it was a very hot day, almost 40 degrees!