Posted in Australia on May 31st, 2004 1 Comment »
I had a typical Aussie night out with me mates last wednesday. We went to Alexandra Headlands Surf Club (every town on the coast has one), had a roast meat dinner and watched the State of Origin Rugby (League) game. We cheered Queensland on, but they lost 9-8 in extra time (not overtime) to New [...]
Posted in Australia on May 24th, 2004 No Comments »
I completely forgot to mention – Colette cut her hair short on Thursday! She’s been talking about it for awhile and finally did it while I was work. Quite a surprise when I got home! She’s still fussing with it to figure out what to do with it, but I think it looks good. Pictures [...]
Posted in Australia on May 24th, 2004 No Comments »
On Friday we received box #12, which is the last of the 13 boxes to arrive. So, our little spare bedroom in our temporary apartment is now packed with boxes & other crap. I just finished an execllent book by Bill Bryson – Down Under. I believe it’s been published in the States as “A [...]
Posted in Australia on May 19th, 2004 No Comments »
We’ve been getting 1 or 2 boxes every couple a days over the last week or so. Last Wednesday I had to fill out some Customs forms to declare that the motorcycle helmet, gloves & jackets were for personal use and I wasn’t going to resell them. But we finally got them on Friday. Now [...]
Posted in Australia on May 8th, 2004 2 Comments »
We got six boxes on Thursday! YAY! Unfortunately, it wasn’t our motorcycle gear. We got boxes 3, 5, 6, 9, 11, 13. I numbered all the boxes before we sent them, for just such an emergency (to paraphrase Foghorn Leghorn). It’s weird the sequence they came in. We think all the ‘express’ boxes have been [...]