In Australia!!!

The team has safely arrived in Australia. We are sitting in Sydney airport enjoying coffee after a long but pleasant flight. We board our flight to Hobart in less than a half hour. We are so excited!!

Canadian Mountie

While leaving Canada we ran into a Canadian Mountie. We think we will bring him along in the overhead bin to keep us out of trouble.

Winnipeg, Manitoba

Sioban, Kathryn and I have 1 flight down and 4 to go (1 hour down 30 to go) We have landed in Winnipeg (Who Winnie the Pooh was named after). Next we are off to Minneapolis to pick up the American half of our team.

2 weeks to go!!!

We are currently at the 2 week mark until we take off!  Which also happens to be the birthday of our team member, Heather!  Happy Birthday Heather!

Tamoo has been with me (Ashley) in Detroit Lakes since our last meeting and I wanted to give an update on what he's been up to.

We've had fun "monkeying around" Detroit Lakes! 

And causing mischief at a local sporting goods store.  Tamoo is itching to go out kayaking!

And we had to stop at the Minnesota Famous Zorbaz Mexican and Pizza Joint for a ride in the Beach Buggy!

We even got to hang out with inbound GSE Team Tasmania when they were in Detroit Lakes on May 1st. (Tamoo is hidden in this picture, but definitely there)

We stopped at the famous Detroit Lakes Sailboat for some fun.

 

After a long day, we stopped off at a local park and did some swinging.

Tamoo has had a great time and is meeting friends wherever he goes.
We look forward to May 18th when we reunite and head off on our destination to Tasmania!  Keep checking our blog for updates while we're in Tassie!

The GSE inbound and outbound team along with Chair and Co-Chair Jill Zachery and Chris Carlson.

The presentation went well and we are looking forward to showing it at the Rotary clubs in Tassy. Special thanks for Gail and John from the Bemidji Rotary Club for letting us do the 'practice' presentation in their home. Thanks to everyone who attended. Thanks as well to Jill and Chris for organizing everything.

After our anxiety from the presentation wore off we went back to Rutger's Lodge on Lake Bemidji and had some team bonding time with the inbound team. Oh, and the Tasmanian team did go swimming. We were all very impressed! We are looking forward to see them again in Australia.

Last weekend in Bemidji

We have all made it to Bemidji, Minnesota for our last 'planning weekend' We arrived quite early to get some work done but ended up a bit side tracked. Our team really likes swimming so we did another dip into Lake Bemidji. It was so cold but at least the ice has melted off the lake. We are meeting up with the inbound Tasmanian team this evening and hopefully we can get them in swimming too. There is a 27% chance of snow for this evening so they might be in for a shock.

On  more serious note, we will be doing our first presentation today for the GSE Chair and Rotarians in this area in T minus 4 hours. 

Greeting the Tasmanian inbound team at Thunder Bay International Airport.

A bunch of us went to the Thunder Bay airport on Good Friday to greet the inbound Tasmanian team. It was a great chance for the Canadian half of our team to meet them. On Saturday night Sioban, Kathryn and I went for dinner with the inbound group at the White Fox Inn. We look forward to seeing them again in Bemidji next weekend.