Our Plans
Saturday 26th January 2008
at 03:27pm
Alot of people have asked either via comment, email or in person, what our plans are from here and to be honest, I feel kind of empty even having to consider it. With the football season being over, the thought that we’re on our way home is kind of sad. I’d like to stay here and see what happens without football on the weekends?
Don’t get me wrong, I can’t wait to get home, see our family and friends, walk down to the beach and enjoy the warm summer nights (should I stop there?) but in alot of ways I feel like we are home already. We’ll be leaving so many great people, experiences and memories behind. I felt like this was a second home for me before I’d spent a single night here. You can only imagine how I feel now.
We leave Green Bay for LA on Saturday the 2nd Feb where we’ll stay a few nights. With any luck I’ll get to see the Superbowl on Sunday and then Disneyland on Monday. After that we’ll be on a plane home to the sunny skies of Sydney to pick up our regular lives where we left them. Ben starts pre-school when we get back and that’ll give Kelly and Luc their first real “alone time” since he was born. (The attached picture was taken 4 weeks or so before we left in August 2007.)
We’ll stay with Kel’s parents who are absolutely stinging to see us and the boys for a little while whilst we figure out which road our lives will take from there. (Assuming they ever let us leave that is!)
As for me, I’m yet to decide what I’ll do. I’ll certainly take the very first job I can find just to get the money rolling in. It has been 5 and a half months since pay cheques after all. With regards to a career, we’ll wait and see. I need to decide, after the experience we have just afforded ourselves, whether I sign up to another corporate styled, white shirt wearing, tall glass building job in the city or whether I follow the path I have created here and do what I want for myself?
That may be to continue with a business my partner and I had started before we left or throw caution to the wind and try to write for a living. Who knows?
With regards to the website I’ll post sporadically until the day we leave LA. You don’t need to hear about us packing for the next 5 days straight. From there I will post every Sunday (including the first one from home on Sunday the 10th Feb) until at least the end of March. We really do look forward to telling our story well beyond the trip home, the reunions and the search for a new job/house. I actually plan on posting more often than that but if you come by on Sunday’s I can assure you there’ll be something new to see.
I most look forward to filming us in front of our old home, down the beach with Ben on his bike and having coffee at our favourite cafe. I can’t wait to show you all Cronulla Mall. It’s kind of like the 3rd Street Promenade in Santa Monica only we’d be down there 5 times a week hot or cold. The next couple of months should be a blast.
I’ll post about the book separately.
Make sure you stay tuned at the end of each week and make sure you all stay in touch. I’ll have to stop if no one is reading it you know! Once home we’ll start responding to each of the emails we didn’t quite get to aswell. At 10 a day we’ll have them done by mid May believe it or not.
(See link on the noticeboard if you need to find this again easily)
Comments
Mon 28th Jan 08
at 05:05am
Wayne & Kelly,
Good Luck on your return trip. I have read EVERY single day of your blogs! I have smiled and cried right along with you! I haven’t ever met you, personally, but inside I feel I have. I will truly miss you guys! As to a job back home, I have emailed you separately about a wonderful opportunity for you. Please check your email me or contact me at mine.
Once again, sorry to see you leaving but have a safe trip!
Mon 28th Jan 08
at 08:59am
Hey Wayne,,,
Thanks for making me blubber again. All of us Packer Backers are going to miss you. Keep in touch and happy trails to you and yours.
Mon 28th Jan 08
at 10:44am
I think my heart just broke. I knew this day was coming, but so soon. Good luck to you, Wayne, in whatever career you may choose. I read all of your blogs and will say you have an knack for writing. So that should bode well for your book. You also seem very comfortable in front of a camera. Maybe become a sports commentator or analyst. You’d be great at any and all of the above.
Mon 28th Jan 08
at 04:56pm
This last week is going to be tough on your emotions. When I read your comments about feeling “empty” when you think of leaving, I can just read your angst. I mean think about it, you have met so many great people along the way who have helped you and your family. It’s going to be hard to leave those who have been so close to you. It really must be phenomenal to think about the support you’ve received and how nice people can be in this world. I’m sure when you get settled and get a house again, you’ll be a great host to many of those friends when they visit you.
When I was walking out of the stadium after the loss, I thought of you. I was totally bummed of course, but I was also upset that you wouldn’t get the fairy tale ending to your story either. But then I thought about the season as a whole, and it truly was a season to remember with all the Favre records and all the wins. You were a big part of this season too, Wayne. It was great to read about how you saw our lives in Wisconsin. I knew I lived in a great part of the USA before, but your views pretty much confirmed it. So, thanks, Wayne, for all your hard work and the late nights in keeping up the website! I thoroughly enjoyed every entry!
I think it’s going to be hard for you to rejoin the corporate world and be a regular Joe Australian after all the attention you received here and the excitement that revolved around your journey. I know you will need to get the “money rolling in” as you said, but I see great things for you in the future. You have too much talent for you not to succeed in whatever avenue you choose to follow. I wish you the best, and I hope to one day meet you and celebrate with you at a future Packer Super Bowl victory!
Mon 28th Jan 08
at 05:06pm
I’m so glad I was able to meet you and your family on your first night in town. I’ll never forget hearing you order dinner for tired, hungry Kelly and my surprise at finding exactly what you were doing here. It’s nice to know that there are Packer Backers all over the world.
I wish we had more time to get together during your stay but I’m glad I bumped into you when I did. I’m also glad the Packers gave us a wonderful season plus two bonus games for you.
Have a safe journey and keep in touch. I read this journal for more than just the game recaps and would love to know how your story continues.
Tue 29th Jan 08
at 12:16am
Good Luck to you and your family! Continue to follow your dreams and do what your heart tells you. I worked in “corporate” America for 20 years and could not stand it any longer. The money was great but, I was not happy. I now work as a 9-1-1 dispatcher and I absolutely love my job. Every day that I go to work I know that I am making a difference in someone’s life and not their pocketbook. I do not make alot of money but the rewards of helping people far exceeds the money. Have a safe trip home and I have enjoyed your stories!
Wed 30th Jan 08
at 01:13am
Man i am proud of you...you are a true Packer Fan....I LOVE YOU!
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at 01:16am
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Wed 30th Jan 08
at 01:18am
Holy cow Wayne! I can’t believe that you actually did this. But you are deinitely a true “Packer Backer”! I wish that i could be as big of a Packer fan as you but I watch all of the games on tv and sweat them out every week. I first heard yur story on ESPN and I LOVE YOU!!!!
Wed 30th Jan 08
at 01:20am
you have the coolest name in the entire worldddddd.
Wed 27th Feb 08
at 12:35pm
I hope all goes well for you and your family. I began visiting your website after you went with my brother (Hags) and his work buddies to the game at Kansas City. I have thoroughly enjoyed your writings and look forward to more in the future. Send some of that warm weather up here.
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