We have a home!

At long last, we finally have a place to live! I met with the agent today and signed all the necessaries... Now I just have to stop in tomorrow to pick up keys and access cards for the garage and front door.

Although it's only week 2, it's been quite an adventure. The house hunting has been somewhat frustrating. The process along with being totally foreign to me, is far different than anything I've experienced in any other part of the world. The one saving grace I find in all of it is that when Valerie arrives, she'll be able to subject countless numbers of other people to the same sufferage. Hmmm... Suffer...Rage... Yep, that's accurate. Anyway, all that assuming she choses to continue her real estate career here, and not do something else like "bookstore-flower shop-barista". Not that there's anything wrong with that...

I'm also a bit surprised at how much of life in Oz ends after 6 pm. I tried to do some shopping this evening and found everything to be closed. Seems shops only have "Trading Hours" from like 8:30 to 6:00 at best. The shopping centres seem to be open late (9PM) on Thursdays. So I suppose that tomorrow will be the day of sojourn to find the appropriate furnishings.

As for now, I'm hungry. I think I'm off to find myself a traditional Aussie-style burger. Yep, one of them char-grilled 100% Aussie beef things, garnished with beetroot. Yum.