Thank You and some Vital News

Hi everybody!
Yes we are back, but we have some vital news.
WE DID NOT BRING BACK ALL TEN CHILDREN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That's right folks, There are not ten Children any more! As the Webb Family we are pleased to announce that there is another child in the family, dubbed 'Marco Polo', for rather obvious reasons. There is some excitement in the household at the moment, as the announcement is recent even for the children.

OK, now. The Title should have really been 'Some Vital News and Thank You', but I will leave it as is. Anyway, here is the Thanks.

Ahem....Ladies and Gentlemen, we are gathered here today to extend our heartfelt thanks and gratitude to.........................Ok, the list is too long to put up here, It would probably fill up the Internet or something! Really, we had overwhelming support for our trip, and we truly thank everybody, whether you physically supported our trip, or just prayer. We had some real Miracles along the Way.
We would like to invite you all to a session at our house, 5 (b) David Street, Toowoomba, next Sunday the 25th at 2:30 pm, with a presentation about our trip. If you can come, please ring us on 07-46-590-842. Hope to see you there!
For those of you who cannot come, we will put up the powerpoint online after the event and put a link to it up here.

Ok, Thats all for Now folks! Thanks again!

Australia!

I still call Australia home.....
That's right, we made it! We're back in Australia now, after 35 days abroad - and probably tired enough to sleep for the next 35 hours. The flight was about 16 hours long, with a short stop over in Singapore.

So now we're back home safely, and still have 10 kids. We'll do a longer post (with pics) after everyone's had some time to recover from the jet lag!

Waiting at Abu Dhabi airport

The Rubik's cube is popular.

Abu Dhabi

We've arrived safely in Abu Dhabi, after a smooth but tiring journey. Some managed to sleep on the plane, others just watched Ice Age 3. Now we have a few hours to rest before our flight to Brisbane.

We should get to Brisbane about 9:00am tomorrow - Australian time. Still a long way to go! Everyone's looking forward to hearing the real Aussie accent and eating some 'tucker' again.

Abu Dhabi airport

Farwell to Italia

Farewell to old England for ev....... No, thats not right, um......Ok, Today we leave Italy. We are now about to head off to the train station to catch the 11:30 train to Milano. Then we have a 3-4 hour wait before we fly out.

Two nights ago we gave a farwell concert for the sisters we have been staying with. Two sisters from their other house were there and they invted us around last night to do the same concert there.

The Von Trapp - Webb Family in their final 

Concert before leaving the Country

(Singing Do-Re-Me)

(By the way, this last post was done by Liam, unlike the rest of the trip, were David was monopilizing) is that spelt  right or is that correct /ly

 Come on liam we are going................

Catacombs and St. John Lateran

Yesterday we paid a visit to one of the many Roman Catacombs, that of Saint Callisto. We took a guided tour in English (with a very strong accent!) and got a nice break underground from the relatively high temperatures of Rome. In this particular catacomb, about 500,000 people were burried - of which 100,000 were children. 16 Popes were also burried here, but have now been transferred to St. Peter's. Unfortunately they don't allow photography inside the catacombs so we don't have any photos.

Later in the afternoon we visited the Basillica of St. John Lateran, the first church built specifically for Christians. This was another very impressive church, very similar in style to St. Peter's but of course older.

Basillica of St. John Lateran

Outside the Catacombe San Callisto

More Pictures of Rome

We met some Roman soldiers outside the Pantheon

The Colesseum isn't really as big as people say it is.....

....So Nancy decided to help rebuild it!

And of course Owen is still enjoying himself.