Vacation 2013 - Australia

On March 13th we flew out to Montreal on our way to Australia.  I had not yet tried a Montreal smoked meat sandwich so we ate out at Reuben's Deli and ordered two enormous sandwiches. Delicious.  The next day we had an early flight to Dallas and decided to leave the airport and have a look around for the day.  We took a bus and then a light rail into the city and took a look around the city.  The claim to fame for Dallas is that it was the site that JFK was shot.  We walked around downtown, say the X marked on the road and read the interpretive signs.

Site of JFK assassination

To be honest, Dallas was a pretty boring place! We got back to the airport at about 6pm and boarded our flight direct to Australia after 10pm. Funny, when we got off the flight 16 hours later we bumped into our friend, Brad Currell, at the baggage claim, he was on the same flight as us.

Steve took a flight to Melbourne to see the Melbourne Grand Prix while I took the kids to Mum's place.  Solitaire and Whitney were there so we had a fantastic time going to the beach, eating out and shopping.  Later in the week we visited Steve's Mum and Dad and also stayed with Tania and Brad. 

We celebrated Jean's birthday with an afternoon at Redcliffe where we checked out the Bee Gee's walk.  We also celebrated Alyssa's 21st birthday with a family BBQ and an awesome weekend in the pool before flying back to Dallas on Monday morning

With Nanny and Grandad at the Bee Gee's walk