Koalas are cool!!!!!

Hi all,

Sorry it's been such a long time. Irony of ironies; we move all the way to the other side of the world for a less hectic and calmer lifestyle and lo and behold, we have never been so busy in all our lives!!
Excuses, excuses....I know , I know but it's the truth. However, several people have guilt  tripped me into posting the latest Lewis Blues, whoops, I mean News,

Well, the furniture, sorry ' lack of furniture ' situation remains a constant pain in the proverbial. We are sick of having nowhere to sit and having to wash up after every drink or snack because we only have enough cutlery and crockery for four people. Actually, scrub that, thanks to Bexmeister, we don't even have that! A glass on a wooden floor tends to smash into a million shards when it is inadvertently kicked! So one of us has to go without a drink until the fastest gulper has finished their drink and washed it up ready to be reused. Joy!

The girls are still loving school. Bex had a reflection day today. Basically, she went to Sydney Arcadia, sang a few religious songs and had a lovely time. This evening, We all attended the parent meeting about the upcoming camp ( oh yes - we get to get rid of both girls for the same three days - cinema and meal out it is then!) at the end of March. Looks like it'll be fun. However, it is likely that our belongings will still be in limbo, meaning that we may well have to purchase another 2 sleeping bags, holdalls, outdoor activity clothes etc etc. I cannot recommend highly enough who NOT to go with if ever you up sticks and move to the other side of the world. Watch this space!

So Becky's birthday has been and gone..... Though it still lingers. The weekend before last we took her into Castle Towers and spent her birthday money on clothes and shoes ( she must be growing up because Nathan didn't approve of any of her fashion choices!)
This weekend, the plan was to take her to the beach, buy her a body board, spend some time on the surf and take her out for a slap-up lunch. Of course Sod's law reigned and the weather decided to cool off on Saturday. We agreed that we would wait for a hot day and do it then. This made us feel a little bad for her so we decided to take the girls to Koala Park to make up for it. Koala Park features mainly nocturnal animals. Going during the day is therefore kind of pointless! I think that there may have been one other family there .... Certainly not the busiest or most well run place we've ever been. However, it proved to be a real welcome relief from the intense and daily grind that is a new job, in a new country. (Yes that is violins you hear playing in the background....or is it a didgeridoo??). Anyway, joking outside, we had good old fashioned fun and the girls and I spent the morning laughing and joking. The echidna (yes, that is one echidna) had buried itself underground so we didn't see that; just a mound of earth moving up and down as,presumably, it breathed?  The possum ( yes, that's one possum) slept inside a pipe with its bum facing us. So I have seen a possum bum and witnessed the breathing patterns of an echidna. The kangaroos were super cool though. They were very cute and there was plenty of them. There was an enclosure where you could go, and feed them and stroke them. Two of them had babies in their pouches. Very cute. The girls loved it! The koalas were brilliant. How on earth they manage to sleep wedged between a forked branch, I'll never know but they are certainly entertaining when they are awake. We watched one of them eat eucalyptus leaves for a good quarter of an hour, cracking up laughing at every facial expression and mouth manipulation.
The long necked turtles were just weird, like elongated poos which stick up,out of the water. The birds were all impressive, particularly the emus. We were even fascinated by the insects and worms that were not intentional exhibits!
Sunday was spent working, helping the kids with their homework and then we had a 'baked dinner' at the home of one of Nathan's colleagues. A lovely evening was had by all - though the Aussie 'bake' just doesn't have that artery blocking, waist expanding satisfaction of a good old pommey roast.

Well, it's 10.10pm and I am typing this in bed, absolutely exhausted but content all the same.

Good night and talk soon.