Monday, November 16, 2009

Today was another perfect day - oh wait - yesterday was perfect - so...today must be beautiful. :-) We have seen a few clouds, but they always seem to be surrounding the city rather than over it. Today I told Mike that I was getting bored of a blue sky every day. ;-)

We borrowed Julianne's car today to do a few errands and our first stop was to Dundowran to see the house that we love and to see how much traffic there would be in the morning in that area around school time. As it turned out, we got there too late as the students were already in school. We did take a second look at the outside of the house and I still love it. We also took a drive around the neighbourhood and found a house for sale by the owner. We phoned the number on the sign out the front and made an appointment to go and see the house. It turns out that the house is quite nice - four bedrooms, family room, lounge room, kitchen, dining room, but no shed. Also the kitchen wasn't quite as big as the other house we like just around the corner. The price sure was right, but we are going to wait and see if this other house comes down in price since they have to leave here by the beginning of January.

After we had seen this house, we went back for another look at the house we like and while we were sitting there, the woman who owns the house (Noelle) came out and asked us if we wanted another look inside. I said 'yes' since I couldn't remember some things about it. I still love it and hope that it's THE house - of course, if it's not, I know that something better will come along. Noelle and I had a great chat about our situation and her situation, so now it will just be a matter of wait and see.

Our next stop was the Department of Motor Vehicles. We have exciting news! We got our Queensland driver's licenses today and they are good for five years! We were so thrilled to be able to both get them. We knew Mike could based on the different kinds of identification he had, but we weren't sure if they would use two passports for me (I have a Canadian and an Australian passport). The lady at the counter checked out both of them and said that they would work just fine. Of course, our photos on our licenses aren't that good, but who has nice driver's license photos. :-)

After that, it was just a rush of visiting different stores: Sam's warehouse to pick up sheets and a laundry basket and to look at furniture on sale just to see their quality; then, to a variety of electronic stores to try and find a cord for Mike's shaver (no luck); River's, to try and find a church shirt or two for Mike (no luck there - mostly long-sleeved shirts on sale and we were looking for short-sleeved ones); Big W to buy a fly swatter and night light (for the bathroom to see in the middle of the night as it's really dark out here at night); Woolworth's to get some more groceries. Near there, we went to a butcher's to buy some meat. When we were there the other day, I noticed that they sold boneless, skinless chicken breasts for $9.99 a kg and that is a good price here. Australians love their butchers and this one will be getting a lot of our business, I think, as their prices are really good, they are really nice people and their meats look really fresh.

After picking up Julianne and dropping us off at our place, we spent the rest of the day just hanging out at home: playing cards, on the computer, reading and a little tv watching. Gee, it's nice to be able to relax every once in a while. ;-)