Strawberries

We're sure the strawberries must be on steriods here, hee hee, there are some super big ones out there, I suppose with the heat, they grow super fast. Cody was pretty impressed with this one.

Bribie Island

Went and visited friends at Bribie Island today, only just over 30 mins from us, the boys spent the whole afternoon in their heated pool. On the way home had a quick look around, went to the park and the waterfront, and watched the kids jumping off the bridge. Stopped at one of the fruit stalls on the side of the road, and bought lots to juice in our juicer, carrots only 8c kg, bought heaps, we'll all be able to see good in the dark.

Finally moved into our rental on Friday, and had all our stuff arrive, also Patch is finally back with the family again, he arrived on Saturday at Brisbane airport, he was very excited to see us. But coming from 9 degrees in ChCh to the early 30's on the Sunshine Coast was rather hot for him, so he had a haircut first thing on Monday, and is now feeling much better.
Cody went over to the secondary campus for school today to study things under the microscope, some of the things they looked at were hair, an ant, and skin, he found it all quite fascinating.

Here is a pic of our first lizard we have found inside, just a small ones, but the kids thought he was pretty cool.

Cody's first tooth gone

Cody lost his first tooth on the train at the Big Pineapple today, after he first got bit by a pig - ouch. He is very excited that the tooth fairy will be coming tonight. Here is a pic of him just before it came out.

La Balsa

This afternoon we went to La Balsa, another great spot to spend the day.

A look around Sunshine Plaza

Today we went for a wander around the Sunshine Plaza, there are heaps and heaps of shops. The boys had a go on the paddle boats, and bought some buzzers and a buzz game for the playsation.

First day at school

It's the boy's first day at Chancellor State College today, everyone seems really friendly there. Cody is in Year 2 and Olie is in prep, they have been buddied up with other children for the day, and made to feel really welcome. It seems strange having both boys at school now, hopefully I'll have a chance to get over this dreaded flu that I thought was going, just onto another dose of antibiotics.

Kings Beach

Another gorgeous day here today, a bit chilly though, we had the heat pump on for the first time tonight for a while.
Managed to get our Medicare sorted out today, and hopefully we will be picking up our new car tomorrow. Went to Shelly Beach, and Grant and Cody went off to find fish 'n chips for our lunch, and returned an hour later, after getting lost (even with the navigator). Boys had a quick swim when we got home, it was too cold, but they wanted to get in, with their new life jackets on.

Finally in Australia

Well it's July, and hard to believe, we have finally arrived in Australia.

We flew into Sydney and spent a few days driving up to the Sunshine Coast. Had a good trip from Sydney, we stayed a night at Port Macquarie along the way as it looked so nice, also made another stop at Coffs Harbour the next day for lunch - we would love to go back there and spend a bit more time. Ended up getting into the Sunshine Coast on Saturday night (a day earlier than expected), we drove for 9 hrs with 2 or 3 stops along the way, the kids were fantastic, not once did they ask "are we there yet", so we just kept driving. The weather on the Sunshine Coast is definitely warmer than Sydney, it is gorgeous here, summer clothes weather, probably a bit like our summer really, we have had three perfect days, the boys have been splashing about on the steps of the pool of the house that we are staying in for a month.

We met up with Jo off the internet yesterday, for lunch with a few of her neighbours that had also recently moved, so that was nice, the kids all got to play together at the park while we had a bbq lunch. I rang about our furniture today, and there have been 'delays'!!! Stuff isn't arriving into Brisbane until about the 23rd July now, and then it will be at least 2 weeks after that until we get our stuff, never mind it's lovely here where we are staying, but is further away than what we will probably eventually live, I think we will probably end up somewhere around Currimundi, as we drove past a school around there by chance yesterday (not one I had even really looked at on the net), and it looks really nice, I went in today, but only to reception, as it was teachers only day, so will have to make an appointment, it has just over 1000 kids, but has a really community feel to it.

Went to a couple of car yards the other day, and Grant ended up bringing one back with the sales guy for me to look at, looks like we might be buying it - a Nissan Pathfinder, really nice vehicle in a silver colour, they are going to get the windows tinted for us.

Spent a couple of hours at Kings Beach yesterday - wow there are so many faboulous beaches around here, what a great lifestyle for the kids. I hear it was -4 back home yesterday morning - can't say we're missing the cold weather.