The ‘Vacationing with a Genealogist’ picture has been doing the rounds of social media sites for a while now,  and I have to say that it is one of my all-time favs, which is why I wanted to share it with you. I just wish I knew who created it so I could give them the credit.

Maybe part of the reason I love this pic so much is that I spent my childhood growing up next to a cemetery. And while I never saw that as scary a number of my friends did. I was the cemetery’s unoffical caretaker and was always putting flowers from mum’s garden in little vegemite jars on each of them. And it’s only since doing my family history that I found out I was related to half of them in the cemetery. 😉

I know this Part 2 blog is way overdue, but what can I say? I’ve been playing catchup with work ever since I’ve been back, so that has been priority for me for the past couple of weeks. So continue where I left off was Wednesday as we had arrived at Noumea.

I know my first post said was dated “TO” Thursday 14th, but rereading it, I really didn’t even tell you about Noumea, so I’ve gone back a day to tell you about that.

Wednesday 13 February 2013 to Thursday 14 February 2013

So Wednesday was a ‘shore day’ as we docked at Noumea pretty early, and had a welcome