Busy times

Hello everybody. Sorry we haven't been blogging much lately. Things have been busy around here getting our lives in order. We moved out of the hotel and into a beautiful report type apartment. Right now I'm sitting on our ground floor patio with my laptop on the table listening the pools. It's a dream. But it's also been hectic. We don't have internet yet (I'm logged onto somebody's wireless), but we did finally get our phone hooked up. If anybody ever feels like giving us a call you have to dial 011-61-7-4041-7991.

Tara has been gone for a couple of days now. She started her Dive Control Specialist course with Cairns Dive Centre and is on an 8 day stint aboard the Kangaroo Explorer. It's a big boat that stays out on the reef all the time. Pretty exciting.

It looks like I'm going to be taking a flight out to Brisbane next weekend to pick up a 4 wheel drive. The flights in the country are cheap, but it'll be about a 24 hour drive back (road trip). Sadly I won't have time to really look at anything because it's going to be a lot of driving in a weekend. I haven't been able to find any vehicles up to my standard around here for a reasonable price. Found a good deal and I get to make a trip out of it.

When we moved into the new apartment a coworker borrowed us his car for the day. It was very nice of him but it was intimidating. I had to quickly learn how to drive on the right side of the car, the left side of the road, and shift the manual trans with my left hand. Surprisingly a lot easier then I thought it would be. Here's a picture of the car he borrowed us, it's worth a laugh.

Other than that, weather is awesome, 25 degrees is starting to feel cool. There has been a few days with high humidity which gives us an idea of the wet season. Looking forward to it. Cheers.