Gymnastics Ellwood City PA

On Saturday We Headed Of To Ellwood City Pennsylvania For Another Gymnastics Competition. Ellwood City Is About Two Hours From Erie & Used To Be a Mining Town That Supplied Coal To The Steel Industry In Pittsburgh. Very Picturesque With The River Running Through The Town Just Like You Would See In Some Of The Hollywood Movies.
Casey Done Australia Proud Again In Front Of a Tough Team Of Judges She Came Away With Medal's In Beam, Bars & Floor & Was Also Awarded 2nd Place Overall Her Best Effort Yet !

River Running Through Ellwood City Pennsylvania Awesome !

Casey Working The Uneven Bars !

Flipping Around Like a Monkey During The Floor Competition.

Good Action Shot Dad !

Medal Ceremony 2nd Overall " Nice Job".

More Stuff To Try & Get Through The Metal Detector At The Airport !

Dylan's USA Experience

Dylan Has Enjoyed His First Two Months In Erie Attending McDowell High To Which He Is Also On The Golf Team & Is Currently Trying Out For The Baseball Team. Dylan Has Also Taken Up Snowboarding & Enjoys The Experience Of The Snow. Oh & Doesn't Mind The Girls Either !

"Hooter's"

Don't Let The Girl's Get In The Way Of The Golf Swing !

Keep Picking On Your Sister I'll Throw You Back In The Snow !

Stuntman!

Do You Want Fries With That ?

Snowboarding "Peak n Peak".

Casey's USA Experience

Casey Has Now Been In The USA For Two Months Attending J.S Wilson Middle School At St Andrews & Has Been Busy Learning New Gymnastic Skills & Really Enjoying The Snow & The Erie Winter. This Is a Sample Of Casey's United States Experience To Date.

Casey & Her Buddy Frosty !

Practise Makes Perfect!

The "Jester" !

If Gymnastics Doesn't Work I Can Always Go NASCAR Racing !

The Towering Inferno !
Out Of Control & Coming Your Way !

Don't Do This At Lollipop Drive !

Niagara Falls

Canada Hear We Come ! Well We Set Off At About 06:30am On The Scenic Route To Canada About 2 Hours Drive From Erie. However About Half An Hour From Home We Decided To Allow a Truck To Pass Us So We Could Slow Down To Take Some Photo's But Unfortunately Pulled Over Too Far & Bogged The Car In The Snow. After Knocking On The Door Of a Farm House We Found a Very Obliging Man That Towed Us Out & We Were Off Again An Hour Or So Later To Check One Of The Worlds Great Attractions Niagara Falls.

Welcome To Canada Hope We Remembered The Passports !

Home Of The Maple Leaf !

American Falls Nice & Frozen.

Wow ! Horseshoe Falls Canada & Yes It Is As Cold As It Looks !

Dare Devil (Casey) Thinking About Riding Over The Falls In a Barrel !

They Would Say "Cheese" Except They Are Frozen.

Whirlpool Niagara Park & Skyway.

Living Like Polar Bears !

Winter Temperatures Have Plummeted Over The Past Couple Of Weeks With School's Being Either Closed Or Put On Two Hour Delays Because Of The Amount Of Snow That Has Been Falling. They Have Had All Sorts Of Problems Trying To Keep The Roads Clear & They Are now Measuring The Snow In Feet Not Inches.

Fearless Fly !!!

Check Out These Icicle's !!!

Picture Taken From Inside Casey's Room
(There's a Veranda There Somewhere)

Snow Ploughs Working Around The Clock.

Mate That's The Road, Stick To Clearing The Pathways !

Believe It Or Not This Is a Car Yard

(Any Chance Of a Test Drive If Not I'll Take The White One)

Nice Condo ! Peak n Peak.

Nickel City Gymnastics New York State

Last Weekend Casey Entered Another Gymnastics Competition In Buffalo Which Is In New York State & She Came Away With Medals In Both The Uneven Bars & Floor.

See My Name On The Shirt !!!! (Next To The Red Star).

Contemplating What The Day Might Bring !


Cool !!! Two More Medals.

Turning The Gym World Upside Down !

All Smiles ! Casey With Her Friend Kaydren.

Daily Life In Erie

Well We Are Definitely Experiencing Life Now In The Winter Of Erie. While Our Family & Friends Are Living Through Another Hot Australian Summer We Are Digging Ourselves Out Of Snow On a Daily Basis & Experiencing What We Would Of Otherwise Just Taken For Granted In Regards To How People On The Other Side Of The World Live Their Daily Lives.

Hurry Please Mate ! Clear Our Driveway So I Can Get To Work.

The Erie Postman

Don't Have To Worry About Him Driving Across The Lawn !

No Junk Mail Please !

Here You Pull Up, Start The Pump & Get Back In The Car.

"Bloody Freezing"

No Issues Here With Red Light Cameras !

I'll Just Take a Small Mug Of Hot Chocolate.

(The Large Must Come In a Bucket !)

Rod & Monty Enjoying a Couple Of Toohey's New On Superbowl Weekend.

"Groundhog Day" Punxsutawney

Strike Up The Music The Band Has Begun
The Pennsylvania Polka
Pick Out Your Partner And Join In The Fun
The Pennsylvania Polka

"Well, It's Groundhog Day... Again... And That Must Mean We're Up Here At Gobbler's Knob Waiting For The Forecast From The World's Most-Famous Groundhog Weatherman, Punxsutawney Phil, Who's Just About To Tell Us How Much More Winter We Can Expect".

For Those Of You That Have Seen The Movie "Groundhog Day" With Bill Murray This Site Will Make Perfect Sense & You Will Probably Have Tears In Your Eyes . For Those Who Haven't You Will Think This Is Crazy But Hey Go Rent The DVD.

Basically Punxsutawney Is a Small Town In Pennsylvania & Every Year On Feb 2nd Thousands Of People Gather On "Gobbler's Knob" Anticipating The Arrival Of "Phil" The Groundhog Who Has Accurately Predicated When Winter Will End Over The Past 121 Years.
If When He Comes Out Of His Burrow & He See's His Shadow Then We Will Have Six More Weeks Of Winter, However If He Doesn't See His Shadow Then We Will Experience An Early Spring.

Dylan & Casey With The President Of The "Inner Circle" At Gobblers Knob Puxsutawney (5am) .

Thousands Of People Gather Every Year On Feb 2nd Anticipating

The Arrival Of "Phil The Groundhog (Most Wear Silly Groundhog Hat's).

The Arrival Of "Phil" With The Inner Circle.

He Did Not See His Shadow Today So An Early Spring !

Phil? Phil Connors? Phil Connors, I Thought That Was You!

Well, What If There Is No Tomorrow? There Wasn't One Today.

On Gobblers Knob With Punxsutawney "Phil".

(We Waited 2 Hours For This Photo & It Was -8 Degrees Celsius "Crazy").

Hey Now, Don't You Tell Me You Don't Remember Me 'Cause I Sure As Heckfire Remember You. (I Think It's Cousin Eddie Of The Griswold's).

Dylan, Casey, The Inner Circle & "Phil" The Weather Predicting Groundhog".