Louise is my first Australian friend. We met at Cunningham Communications a high tech PR firm in Silicon Valley and we were both on the HP account.
Louise moved back to Australia 6 years ago with her family to Perth which is on the West Coast (a 5 hour flight) of Australia. She happened to be in Sydney and we had a wonderful time catching up!
With the 9th anniversary of 9/11 coming up, we both remembered that the last time either of us were in the World Trade Center was when we were in NY to support an HP press event around 1998. We arrived a few days early - Louise to sightsee and me to visit my brother and family. It was a work day and my cousin Yasushi used to work in the World Trade Center (on 9/11 he was thank goodness working at another accounting firm somewhere else) so I went to meet him for coffee while Louise took the elevator to the top to check out the view.
On a more cheerful note, we also laughed about how much we both hated doing time sheets and were glad to finally go "in house" to do PR.
I have yet to visit Perth - but the plan now is to head there in Easter 2011. Can't wait to meet Louise's second son and to see the rest of the family again ... and check out the Margaret River which is world renowned for its shiraz wine.
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