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Well, for those of you wondering just where we are these days, we have all safely arrived home. Most of us, anyway. Sarah should be seeing the sights in and around London right about now since she chose to visit a few friends there. But Leah, Robin, and Wayne (me) set foot on Canadian soil on Monday night (or around 2 a.m. for our friends in Scotland). I had another four hour drive home with my parents, while Leah and Robin also had family picking them up. Tuesday was a day to unpack and get life sorted, then back to work on Wednesday.

Ryan and his family are well. Hopefully we can all get together very soon and share pictures and fill him in on the adventures of the last week.

The conference in Perth was enjoyable and a good way to bring the trip to a close. We were able to see a lot of our hosts from throughout our various stays and say some final goodbyes. We especially had a lot of fun meeting the GSE team that traveled to Australia in the spring and shared some common experiences with them. General response was that people enjoyed our final presentation on Sunday, after which we stayed to hear the final speeches of the conference and then packed our things to leave for the hotel in Renfrew.

One of our surprises at the conference was to present District Governor Catherine Stewart with a personalized Canadian hockey jersey...

So, thanks to those of you who have so faithfully followed this blog during our trip. It was sometimes a challenge finding time to update it and create posts, but it has been a really useful way to show people some of what we've been experiencing. Not sure how many posts will follow now that we're home, but for anyone wanting to send us a message or a comment (if you don't already have our email addresses), you can send it through the blog and it should get to us. For everyone else, it's been great to get emails from some of you already, and we really hope to keep in touch with our new friends.

I personally want to thank everyone who has been so interested and supportive of my music. You can find some more information on that part of my life by checking out www.myspace.com/waynegibsonmusic or searching for me on iTunes. I've got some other things in the works, so stay tuned.

On behalf of myself (Wayne) and the rest of the team (Ryan, Leah, Sarah, and Robin), thanks again for a pure dead brilliant experience in Scotland.