June 9th is a holiday in Australia...Queen's Birthday. And we have planned a busy schedule for ourselves.
We need to be at our new house today at noon to get the keys, fill out some forms, and then supervise the arrival and setup of our rental furniture. Also, we will be getting cable hooked up today. We have rented an SUV to help with moving our belongings from the temporary house to this house. Should be about a 15 minute drive. Mel has also found 2 used cribs for $200 so she has to go and pick those up as well and we need to find a good bed for Wyatt.
If things go well we should be able to sleep at the new house tonight. We will have both places over the weekend so we can take our time.
Saturday we have been invited to dinner at the house of another Canadian family who have been living here for 10 months. Mel met them at a park when she noticed they had a chariot stroller. It seems to be the easier way to pick out the Canadians !
Monday we are invited to a birthday party at Wyatt's friend Declan's house. The party is actually for Declan's younger brother Sean.
In between moving and socializing we will try and maximize our time with a car and get out to see some things outside the city. Hopefully we can go to the Weribee open range zoo on one day and perhaps go to the Dandenong National Forest on another day. I think we need to get out of the city to reming ourselves that we really are in Australia.
We will have a new phone number that I can email to any interested parties shortly. Unfortunately we will be without a phone or internet until Monday morning at the earliest. Internet might be a bit longer as we will need to wait for the modem to arrive so this may be my last post for a few days. (Utilities here are comparable in price to Canada)
Thats it for now. Hopefully my next few posts will be full of pictures and I can talk about a good weekend where we didn't have to traverse the city looking for a house.
Jeff.
p.s. We joined the masses here and got some prepaid mobile phones.
Friday, June 6, 2008
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2 comments:
Hi Jeff, Mel, Julia and the kiddies
I love checking out all the things you guys are doing. I check in every day or two, but would love to get your phone numbers so we can talk in person. Glad to hear yo have that spare bedroom, you never know when an aunt (great aunt) may have to come visit and give you guys some time off by yourselves.
Much love, hugs and kisses!!
Angie
Hi Angie,
If you can give us your email address I can send you all the numbers that we have..or you could get them from Mel's parents.
Any time you are ready to visit we are ready for you. We have lots of room in our new place.
Jeff.
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