Accommodation booked

Our hotel is now booked for our 3 week stay in Houston,Texas.We are staying at the Marriot Residence Inn,Reliant Park.It is fully self contained so we are able to cook our own meals etc.It is only a short distance from the hospital and it has a shuttle service to the hospital.So now with our flights and accommodation booked and our appointments made we are ready to go.

Auction Success

On Sunday we held our silent auction at the GONELLS FOOTBALL CLUB.We had spent hours the night before gift wrapping the items and getting everything in order. Matt started his first trip of dropping things off at 9:00am.The day started very slow and for a time we were getting quite worried.By 3:30pm we started to get some people in and some activity in the bidding,and an hour later when we started our big auction most items had bids on them.The raffle for the hamper we put together was selling really well,having an estimated value of $1300 worth of goods.We started our main auction and we were surprised at how well some things went for.So we can now announce our total for the day was $7370.This total is made up of silent auction,main auction,raffle tickets,100 club and a surprise donation from Kimbo from the CORFIELD TAVERN of $823.We would very much like to thank Bob Uttenbrook of the Gosnells Football club,who in a short space of time Bob had got a huge amount of goods for the auction.Thanks  to Norm Barratt of the Gosnells Football Club.Norm is the outgoing president and he donated a custom made esky for the auction, he is top bloke and our family were touched by his generosity and the kind words he spoke.A huge thanks to our neighbour Steely ,also member of the football clubs committee for his efforts in getting auction items and selling raffle tickets. We would also like to thank THREEPLAY Acoustic for playing for the first part of the day.

THREEPLAY Acoustic

Thanks to everyone.

Both Tiff and I would just like to thank a few people and businesses for their support.Cally at PRO AUTO.Renee and Nat at ADDICTED 2 HAIR.David at GIBBONS HOLDEN.Bob,Trevor and Steely at GOSNELLS FOOTBALL CLUB.Elisha at the ABN Foundation.Kimbo at CORFIELD TAVERN.W.A. CHARITY DIRECT.Lorraine and Del A'Court.Hayley White and K.L.I.A.Martin Dillon at PINE RIVERS RSL QLD.To all the people and businesses not listed you are not forgotten and we have tried to list all donations so thank you to everyone for your support and we hope for your ongoing support.We have met some absolutely tremendous people and your generosity is greatly appreciated.

Flights booked.

We have now booked our flights for our long journey to Texas.Leaving from Perth on the 27th Jan 10 and arriving in Houston 22 hrs 19 mins later if all goes to plan.We have a couple of stop overs in Sydney,San Francisco and Denver,so that will be good for the kids.Thanks to Elizabeth Anderson at FLIGHT CENTRE Forrest Lakes for booking our flights and taking no commission this saved us a lot of money.