Early Childhood classes

I thought I'd put in my bid for quote of the year:

♥ Every classroom needs to have people who know how to make sparks bright and globes light ♥

Jessaholic 'EPL and Jessica Watson' lunch

Two years ago Jessica Watson sailed into Sydney Harbour to finish her quest to be the youngest to sail around the world non-stop and via the notorious Cape Horn no less.

Sometime before that a bunch of people formed likeable acquaintances through her daily blog updates. Some of us just had to comment every time, we couldn't resist☺☺☺

Later we called ourselves the Jessaholics (acquaintance turned into friendship) and set up a blog to keep in touch as well as watch and report on Jessica's spirit of adventure.

Last week we got together and 'holics' from around Australia
and the world had lunch at Mooloolaba. It was Fantazmagorrical.

Jessica Watson was gracious enough to fit us into her busy schedule and joined us at the Wharf Tavern at Mooloolaba.
Her mum Julie and sister Emily came along as well as Andrew Fraser from 5 Oceans media.

                                          Here's Andrew Fraser, Emily, Jess and Julie. 
                                        (It was a bit glary from where I was sitting, sorry).

Deb Cameron by Pamela Worsedall.

Adam Spencer and Deb Cameron by Eleanor Sheldon.

Jessica has a Nasty Challenge!

Jessica Watson will skipper the youngest crew ever to compete in the Sydney-Hobart race.

She'll be sailing the Sydney 38 class boat Another Challenge.

"I'm told I need to get a bit nastier... our coach...says there are no please and thankyous and it's got to be 'now'."
The crew Cameron Dale, Genevieve Warlow and Mike Perham.
Thanks to Reuters and the Heraldsun

facebook

It's finally happened!!!

Much to my children's regret one of my friends has joined facebook,
soooooooooo I felt obliged to follow him.

This is going to be interesting.

Here's my facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/#!/profile.php?id=100000694077169

What's the Big fuss about Laura?

I don't see it as such a big deal that Laura Dekker is a youngster.
She's going the safer way (wind and wave wise) anyway!

I would be daunted to do something like sail in the Southern oceans like Jessica Watson did.
The only worry for me would be that Atlantic bit if I was Laura.
I wish Laura all the best, it seems like she has the aptitude to do it.

Great Mates

Jessica Watson and Michael Perham met well before her adventure.

Here she is snuggling with him at Mooloolaba before her quest.

Don or Mike? Jessica is torn, lol.

Mike Perham has done a deal with the magazine Womans Day,

so according to this pic. at Manly they are on a lover's stroll, lol.