I've finally posted in Cooma!

Wow, what an amazing, hectic, fun filled week and a half! Australia is truly an amazing country with beautiful and friendly people. Every Rotarian that I have come into contact with has been extremely gracious and very attentive to our team.

I know I am backtracking a bit since everyone else has posted, but let me tell you my perceptions since day one.

We arrived in Canberra after a very hard flight over the Pacific Ocean. The seats were so cramped that it was hard to ever get comfortable. Unfortunately, I had a rather large woman sitting next to me and she kept sitting on me!!! I'm not joking!! So, I tried to move over towards the other side, but kept getting in the way of the people walking up and down the aisle. Just glad to be off the plane. We were greeted by most of our host families. It was a welcomed sight.

I'm not going to bore with all the details, but I was extremely concerned about not having Steve's luggage when we arrived. So much so, that I didn't sleep at all the first night. Luckily it came in and he's good to go.

We were able to see parts of Canberra and the Jerrabomberra Host families treated us like royalty. I stayed with Tony and Megan Rolfe - lovely people and Tony deserves a ton of kudos to pull everything together at the last minute.

On Monday, we were off to the Southern Highlands where again we were greeted with two wonderful Rotarians, John Macpherson and Rob Hurdwell. Wonderful chaps! I can't begin to tell you all the places we saw. I stayed with Barbara McKern and Bob Barrett. Lovely people and Barb was the President of the Berrima District Club. We gave three presentations in two days - Bowral-Mittagong, Berrima District and Moss Vale.

I'll post more later, but everyone has been wonderful and have exceeded our expectations so far.