Oh boy there has been so much going on......

Today's event started about a month ago when my cousin and his wife from Victoria drove to Queensland to visit Mum and Dad. On their way back they called in to say hello and have a look at some family photos that I have.......during this time Geoff mentioned that two ladies who are sisters have been in contact with him....they believed that we were related, but Geoff did not think so........so I started looking through my minimal family history information that I had collected way way before I had ever heard of Ancestry.com...... I had spent hours at the local Library looking through Micro fish films......anyway in my papers I had the missing link that connected us with these two lovely ladies........my father Hilton and their father Martin are cousins........their mothers were sisters.......and through some unknown issues Martin's mother lost contact with her sons when they were very young........no-one knows what happened as everyone who could have told us has passed on.......

So today we all drove to Esk, us down from the Sunshine Coast and the others up from Ipswich to meet at a coffee shop.....the lovely ladies Robyn and Sharna found a great cafe that had a couple of small rooms and a very wide veranda with all these over sized table and chairs out on the front lawn......and antiques everywhere.......

It was great to meet these beautiful people......we had a little room to talk and show photos, drink coffee, eat yummy cakes and get to know each other......and to laugh at Marty's jokes. It has taken 86 years for Marty to meet someone from his extended family.....it was a special day for all of us........ 

 I hope you enjoyed looking at our family day out.........will catch up with other events from last weekend in the next couple of days........

Happy stitching - - - - - - -Cathy