Lisa Barnard – The EcoFitChick

L to R Nathan, Lisa, Julie, Craig, Jeni and Michelle from Rotary Canberra outside the War Memorial

We’re heading into day 5 of our grand adventure down under and what an adventure it has been to date. We nearly didn’t get to leave Phoenix because of a faulty door mechanism on the plane. Fortunately we did leave but later than anticipated which had us rushing through San Fran airport with a United employee to make our connection to Sydney — they had been holding the plane for us for about 20 minutes. We had plenty of time to rest though on our 13.5 hour flight to Australia. Once landing in Sydney we learned the meaning of the word queue – lines to us – as we stood in many of them, missing our original flight to Canberra. Even though we had some travel issues everyone has been in good spirits and having an amazing time.

Our hosts here in Canberra have been amazing and are sending us on very imformative and fun tours and vocational meetings. So far we’ve visited with folks in the Ministry of Toursim, the CEO of the chamber and visitor’s bureaus, the Environment, Energy and Resources Dept. and have even met the ACT senator — and that’s just the vocational side. We’ve also given a couple of presentations and everyone has been very complimentary of our style and full of questions.

We’ve had some unusual weather since getting here, like the worst duststorm in decades and torrential downpours. Today, however, is sunny and crisp so we’re off to the zoo and visiting a fellow Rotarian’s vineyard.

All the best to everyone!