New year

Julia, Dom and myself are currently enjoying the hospitality of the Damian Roffs, although we're about to go back to Newcastle with Jenny as a passenger so that she can have a few days with her sister, Cathie. It's been tag-team traveling for the past week. We met up with Nick, Adam and Amanda in Newcastle for Christmas which most of us spent at the Stuart Roffs. Christmas night was big, as you'd expect, but it may have gone on about half an hour too long, resulting in Stuart, Daniel, Harry, Alaine and Milly being denied the benefits of Marianne's conversation for the next couple of days. I'm with Marianne on this - they WERE very loud. We met Harry's new girlfriend, Vicky. While no male is ever good enough for a Roff niece/cousin, exactly the opposite is true for Harry. Stuart, Dom and Harry came up to Armidale for a night and we did high-fives as they were leaving and we were entering. Golf had been played which included Nick who came over from the coast where he'd been surfing. The pics above are of Julia and Jenny at a picnic at Blue Holes and some of the kids on the back steps. The Ashley Roffs have arrived in Newcastle and we'll catch up with them over the next couple of days. In other news, Annika has managed an earlier flight from Japan and will be home on January 14. She sent a text message last night while she was full of schnaps and about to go down a black run on a toboggan. I'm sure there'll be stories when she gets back. We're going to have a couple more days in the Newcastle area before the drive back to Melbourne and the real world but happy new year to everyone and just 365 sleeps until next Christmas.