Moved House and My First Trip To Australia

Well I have been home for 3 weeks now and i have been busy non-stop the entire time, not even a few beers at the beach for a day out. You never realise how much junk you accumulate while you stay in a house until you come to move it, my wife has been clearing out the rubbish and she would have been throwing out my stuff if i hadn't been carefully watching her, well anyway, we are now much closer to the little girls school and this morning i actually walked her to school on her birthday, she is a 6 year old little devil. That beside, the house is near the shops and we had an evening stroll to try the pizza shop and it was a very nice Italian style one, nice and thin with not too much topping, the walk was a little too long and it was cold by the time we got it home but it was still nice, nothing better than cold pizza in the morning after a lot of beers the night before. So we are now wonderfully situated in town with everything close, we have found the local Sunday market and that is great for fruit and veg from the local farmers, Mangoes are pretty good this time of year. After the market we went to the pool for the first time early before the sun got too hot, as it is summer now and the skies are crystal clear and the sun is very intense, dangerous even for those pale white honkeys on holiday who know nothing about taking the sun in a tropical country. the water though was almost icey cold and far too cold for swimming, just dipping your feet in to cool off, the wind blows here all year through and it chills the water to about 15C, not good for swimming.

With my attempt to get into Australia, well I am supposed to be leaving friday for a 1 month operation in a small town called Karratha, this is a consolation prize as the main project in Darwin is delayed a little as the project manager is stuck in the middle east and it is tricky to get everyone synchronised to get me the departure date, the customer will have me, I have the Visa and want to travel, but we need the project manager to get it to happen, so with all my complaining they gave me this while i am waiting to go, i accepted gracefully. but the flight is going to take many hours, I am having a many stop journey, (1) Pheonix USA (2) San Francisco USA (3) Sydney Australia (4) Perth Australia (5) Karatha Australia.

I am going to be sooper jet lagged as it is a 9 hour time difference and the trans pacific is 14 hours long, enough for a few movies.

This is the pool with paddling pools for the kids



This is the childrens play area at the side of the pool



This is the view from the Bedroom