10/3/07

Hey there friends, family and other furry animals

Well, we are currently sitting in our office at home in Brisbane and we regret to inform you that Ced & Avril’s Bigarsed Adventure Reloaded 2005-2007 has now been UN-loaded and is now over…

…sort of…

When we were in Ghana in Africa a month ago, we received an email that my Grandmother had had a fall in her nursing home, and when they scanned her head, they found that she had multiple brain tumours, and they weren’t too sure how long she would have to live.

Anyway, she is 94 so we were expecting that something like this would happen one day, so I guess we weren’t too shocked by it. But since she and I were close, we made the VERY hard decision to finish the trip early and head home to try and see her while she still had some of her faculties.

It was a REALLY hard decision at the time though, because we were literally 2 days from flying out to Kenya and Tanzania to do some safaris and then into Uganda and Rwanda to do Gorilla tracking, and we weren’t sure whether we’d have the time to still do this and get home before she died…

And although it sounds horrible… as upset as I was about my Grandmother, I was equally upset that we were going to finish our holiday early, because this has been the trip of a lifetime and Ghana was such a shi’tty country to finish such an amazing trip with… Not to mention that we had been looking forward to doing the safaris and also coming home on the Trans-Siberian railway through Russia, Mongolia and China. Continue reading →