Down Under

We now live in a land down under.
When people drive we think they blunder.
Did you hear, did you hear it's summer?
Too bad it's cold up in the North, bummer.

We moved to Australia on October 12. John transferred here with his job for a year. It was a bit of a whirlwind from the time we found out we would be transferring to the time we arrived...two and a half weeks. After nearly 24 hours traveling we arrived in beautiful Melbourne (pronounced Mel-bun) on October 14. We crossed the International Dateline and completely lost the 13th. We are currently in a serviced apartment while we look for a place to call home for the next year. We are hoping to live close to the city and that means that we will be in a high rise building.

Here is a picture of us checking in at the airport! We had four silver suitcases, two red suitcases, one green duffel bag, one red duffel bag, one box, one pack-n-play, two car seats, two carryons, one stroller, five backpacks, one green bag, and four kids. We managed to arrive with all four kids, but only five suitcases and one car seat. The following afternoon we had all of our bags, but only 1 1/2 car seat, we never did get that other half.