Exploring

The past few weeks have been both exciting and rather difficult at the same time. As with any move, there is a time of adjustment, setting up, and nesting... with an International move this process is spread out over several months... and so it takes patience and an enduring spirit to walk each day.

Our Little Cottage in Crows Nest

This is not easy when your comfortable bed is floating in the middle of the Pacific Ocean!  Yet, keeping things in perspective,  I am thankful we do have an adequate bed, for now, and a lovely home to keep us safe and warm.  

After three weeks, we finally got our house phone connected!  We are still working on the internet but we are hopeful by next week that will be resolved.    

We have been busy setting up our place... getting quotes for curtains, making appointments with Doctors, learning our way around our neighborhood, making new friends and meeting our neighbors.   We don't have a car... so we are daily walking to the grocery store for our meals... very much like Europe!




This weekend we ventured out to Manly. (A 25-30 minute bus ride from our place).  It is a famous seaside town located near the headlands, just north of Sydney.  It was a fabulous winter day... many people were out sunbathing and swimming in the ocean.

The children enjoyed investigating into the tide pools and digging in the sand... we enjoyed a fabulous lunch overlooking the beach...

A Walk along the hillside in Manly...

 

 

A Sea Dragon

We then jumped on the Ferry and headed down to the Circular Quay (the main Ferry/Train Station in Sydney.)  We got some great views of the city and the famous Opera House as well as the Bridge...

 It is hard to believe this is within a half hour of our doorstep!