Paul and Jane visit

I'm so late mentioning this, but better late than never. Our friends Paul and Jane stayed with us for a long weekend at the beginning of July, pretty much straight after our weekend in Seattle. They were on a round-the-world trip virtually, from Australia where they now live, via San Francisco. I used to share a house with Paul when I lived in Cambridge so we are good friends. He moved to Melbourne in Australia probably a year or so ago now with his then-girlfriend Jane. Recently they got married but I missed the wedding as Steph and I were too busy to travel at the time. It was really great to see them, and we packed in a few tourist-type things in the short time they were here - a trip to Granville Island Market and to Grouse Mountain. We also got together with Chris and Katie and their new baby Lucas for the evening (we all knew each other from when we worked at Sony and lived in Cambridge). After leaving here, they went back to the UK for a wedding reception for the guys that couldn't make the Melbourne wedding, and then on to Italy for a week of actual holiday before returning to Australia. An epic journey indeed. I heard the other day that they made it back safe and sound, but narrowly avoided being on the Quantas plane that nearly crashed that day. It was only because that flight was overbooked that they ended up on another one. A close shave!

Oh yes, and one other thing. While they were visiting, we learnt that Jane is pregnant. Congratulations guys!!