93!

Love you, miss you always. xxxxx

Together Again!

It was lovely to see you last week and looking forward to truly seeing everyone at Christmas!

Where in the World was Dara?

This is a tough one - where was Dara last week? And if you want to have fun, suggest a caption for the photo!

What a Difference a Day Makes!

What a difference a day makes... The bottom photo is our street in the middle of the snow storm that dumped 32cm of the white stuff on Toronto on Friday. The middle photo is the scene on Saturday afternoon, 24 hours later: brilliant sunshine and a very different world! The top pic is Gibson enjoying his romp in the snow in the local park this afternoon. The snow was so deep that he could only move by leaping forward like a kangaroo...but he loved it...must be his Shetland Island heritage!

Re: next Christmas

We all need to post school/college/work holiday dates so that planning can start.
England: Dec.20th - Jan.8th.
You also need to state how long you want to be away; we would want ten days.

Happy Christmas x

Love to all x

Xmas in Mexico

Happy Xmas from a 14,000 foot summit in Mexico!
A Merry Christmas was had by all Canadian Family Robinsons. Pip and Anneli were at Anneli's folks with Gibson, whilst Dara, Chip and Tim were in Mexico as we managed to pre-record the Dec 22 Travel Shows. Tim and Chip clambered up Nevado de Colima, Mexico's 6th highest mountain and neighbour to North America's most active volcano. It was 30C/80F every day...but now back to minus 10C and 15cm of snow in Toronto.
Happy New Year to all the clan, wherever you are!
Love Chip, Dara, Tim, Pip & Anneli

Christmas Deliveries

Attention all parents of Under Age Robinsons....... Christmas presents are on their way by various means. Those in countries serviced by Internet deliveries may receive them ridiculously early. Those in far flung places accessed via snail mail may receive them frustratingly late .... All are on their way to you with love from Dara, Chip, Pip and Tim.

Happy Canadian Thanksgiving!

The perfect Thanksgiving weekend at the cottage with the boys, Anneli and our traditional Thanksgiving friend Jordan...Perfect weather: cold and bright. Perfect colours ranging from green to yellow to orange to red.  Lots of hiking, boating, laughing (Jordan is an accomplished stand-up comedian), drinking...and of course eating. Poppa Jim and Katie Nanna would be happy to know that their old oak table is still hosting family holiday meals!

A Boy No More...

Tim celebrated his 18th birthday at the cottage this weekend! His first month of university has been great and he's full of self-confidence and...well, grown-upedness! Gibson had missed him hugely and was inseparable from him all weekend. It's wonderful to see him grabbing everything that college life has to offer with both hands - he's going to have an amazing four years!

Happy Birthday, Tim!

Wish you'd stop pretending to be all grown up - how can you possibly be EIGHTEEN?!!!!
Have a great day - love you lots xxxx

Testing from my phone

Happy birthday x

Lovely party......

......and lovely friends (just wish I could remember what they were celebrating!)
Wish you all could have been there.xxx

4 years old today!

Happy Birthday, Maizie!

China

Just a few pics of voyage up the Yangtze - fabulous!

Moving In Day

Today we helped move Tim into his new digs as he starts his student life at Queen's University in the pretty city of Kingston, about three hours east of Toronto. So for the next four years he will be studying everything from ancient history to philosophy.  Exciting times for Tim... and he'll now have to become an independent Robinson family blogger.  It's only been a few hours and we're missing him already!

We were on a road trip in Illinois last week, getting our kicks on Route 66, preparatory for the Travel Shows with Tourism Illinois on Saturday. Great scenery, great history and great characters en route.  Chicago, Mississippi Valley, Abe Lincoln adulation in Springfield...and of course Route 66 fun. Jamie Fish will also approve of our short excursion into Wisconsin as our Tourism Illinois guide got lost and took us most of the way to Madison! Pip has passed his hellish financial planning exam, which was really good news, and Tim is leading a group of young teenagers on a camp/canoe trip into the wilds of Algonquin Park. Hope everyone is ejoying the Olympics - the opening show made us feel very proud expats!

Summer getaway!

Just got back from a fab weekend Dale Hollow Lake Ky tubing and cliff jumping for a day then Gatlinburg to white water raft, and a gondola ride up the Smokie mountains and alpine slide back down!