It's a small step for man, but a very slow step for our kind

The first few days have passed by in a rush of heat (35-40 degrees), lots of trips to the (air conditioned) supermarket and many adjustment adventures. The B&B is great, the car is great, we're doing great trying to adapt, all is good with the world. Of course there a some things that go different than planned, but that's why we have plan B (and C and D). Life really moves at a slower pace here and we're finding it rather agreeable, be it somewhat inconvenient if you want to set up your new life. Then again, we've been here three full days now, lets give it a month ;-)

Take for example the bank. We were there, but the appointment had been wrongfully scheduled, so that took until today, but now we've got bankcards, three    accounts, visa cards coming and a lot of useful info on all things banking. Finally the pin machines make sense now, because apparently you have your everyday account, your bills account and your long term savings account and you get to choose which one you want to use. Not all that different from NL, but different enough to be somewhat alien. We now have glossy black passes with lots of silver shiny on them. Good stuff.

In the meanwhile we could probably start working as second hand car sales guys, as we've read so much about it now that we know every trick in the book on how to buy a good car. And it would be great if we would have a permanent address, so we could actually buy one. So rental car it is for another 2 weeks at least. We're probably going to downsize a little form our Holden Commodore SR6 19,000HP engine to a more suitable mid class boring car that is a tiny bit more eco friendly than the 16,5l/100km we're currently getting.

As far as housing is concerned, we're having a good time of visiting all sorts of open homes. Last Saturday we visited 8, one could not be shown because the key was missing and everyone seemed okay with that, so we just nodded along and drove off to the next in line. Monday (Today) there's 2, Tuesday another 3 and Wednesday and Thursday we've got some more scheduled. we're guessing that with no income and 2 furry weapons of mass deconstruction on the way, we're the ideal tenants, so we're taking potshots at the market and hope than someone will give us a break.

We're slowly gathering some intel on the job market and things are looking pretty good, but we're not actively seeking yet, which would be a big hassle with all the things we still need to arrange. We'll probably start inquiring somewhere halfway through March, so if there's news, we'll be sure to share it. Which is the Aussie way of saying: "get of my back mate". :-). We've visited the International Festival last Sunday and that was good fun, everyone celebrating that 25% percent of Canberra's population is not from Oz originally. Don't see that happening in NL...Yuum got some info on volunteer stuff involving animals (no not BBQ-ing them, but something preservational of sorts) and Gil spotted a Kung Fu sifu that he had not yet found but he will definitely check out his school

Thanks for all the support and positivity so far, we'll keep you posted if we haven't already skyped, emailed, whatsapped or phoned you, through this blog  and on Facebook.