Plane #2....

Getting a little bigger....ready to board the plane from Minneapolis to L.A.!

On plane #1!

We went from smallest plane, to largest plane....this is a picture of our first one to Minneapolis. The kids wanted to sit together, so we sat behind them!

We were fortunate enough to have Josh's parents, my parents, and Scott, Erin, and Solon at the airport with us to drop us off and see us off on our big move! Solon even wanted to come on the airplane with us! Wish we could've put him in one of our suitcases! :)

We're ready to go!! All of these pictures I will be posting from the first week are from my iPhone, so not the best quality compared to our camera. 8 suitcases and 6 carry-ons later, we're ready to move to Sydney, Australia!! Yikes!

REDO!

So....I started this blog back up kind of randomly....I finally have some pictures to post, but they're from last week. I have some more I will post later about this week. I feel like I need to start over! The pictures will say it all, but basically they will start with us in Des Moines, getting ready to get on the plane, and head south to Australia! It's taking us a while, but we'll figure this out eventually and I'll get the hang of it and in a groove - I hope! :) Ha!

We made it to Sydney, Australia!

Well, tomorrow will make it one week since we arrived in Sydney! We have been quite busy adjusting to the time change (14 hours ahead of Ohio!), buying a new car, settling into our "temporary" house, and getting acquainted with our new surroundings! It takes about 5-6 days to really get adjusted. The first couple days, we were falling asleep around 6pm and waking up around 4-5am! You just have to force yourself to stay awake longer at night! The kids have done wonderfully and are adjusting just fine! Keeping busy is key, and I have come to the conclusion that as long as their basic needs are met, kids are very reseliant!
We found a car for Josh - it's a silver Volvo 4 door and we really like it! Right now we're driving a rental Pajero, that we will continue to drive until we find my car.
We're doing lots of exploring, eating out, and comparing prices of things for future purchases, as things are very expensive over here! The malls are interesting over here as well. You do all of your shopping at them, including grocery shopping! So you wheel your grocery cart through the mall to get to your car - it's hilarious! We will take pictures of everything and I will get them posted on the blog as well.
Saturday we went into central Sydney by Darhling Harbor. The kids loved it! We walked around and visited the Aquarium. We thought after all the errands we had been running, it would be a nice treat for them. We can't wait for all our visitors to come and enjoy the sights with us! Our drive home took us over the Harbor Bridge with the view of the Sydney Opera House on our left - we were home 15 min. later!! It's so awesome! I can't believe we live here!!
We went to Hillsong Church (3 min. from our house) Sunday to check it out. The kids thought it was great and really enjoyed their classes. We're still trying to figure out if we will go there for sure or not permanently.
Today was Josh's first day at work - he'll be home in an hour, so anxious to see how it went! Tomorrow we will go take Grace to visit her school for orientation, buy her uniform, and take some tests. Should be a fun day! Well, that was our week in a nutshell! Until next time....