I loved seeing Sydney this time through the eyes of my kids.  I have travelled to Sydney to see my family many times, but we have not been in the last 4 years, so neither Daniel or Joel remembered it.  Daniel remembers traveling to England and seeing Mark's side of the family a couple of years ago when Mark's Mum passed away, but other than that all their memories are of Peru.  

The whole reason we went to Australia this time was because my sister Chloe, was getting married to Sam...

Having been cocooned in life in Peru for four years, and my only outside influences being Facebook and others coming into Peru, I wasn’t sure how I would react to being ‘back’ in the Western World.  Spending three weeks in Australia with my sister as she got married and my family, with my boys who are now so much older has been a beautiful time (we still have a week left!) but the strangest things are the things that I had forgotten that I had forgotten! So this blogpost is not focused so much on the people and the times we've had with them (perhaps I'll write about that in another post) but rather the beautiful things I have seen as we have been out and about...

We are in Santiago airport in Chile having just had a 3 hour flight from Lima at 1am.  The boys didn’t sleep.  We didn’t much either.  The boys are doing great - no more grotty than normal, no more objectionable than normal - currently playing on the tiny play area near gate 11.  

In 4 hours we will set off on a 14 hour flight to Sydney.  I am hoping they will sleep a bit, but not too much - we arrive early evening into Sydney and it would be good if they slept tonight. 

But at the same time, experience tells me that I just need to throw out any expectations regarding sleep, schedules, whether we will arrive on time or with luggage etc.  I am hopeful that we will have an uneventful flight, but I also know that that might not happen...