City life

For the last 10 days we've been staying in the Quest Serviced Apartments, Southbank, Melbourne. Here's the view out of our 10th floor window. I can't believe how quickly we've adapted to being here, developing our own little rituals. There are three lifts and we always play 'choose your lift' whereby V, W & T go and stand in front of the door they think will open first. Amazingly, 95% of the time, Thea gets it right. When she gets it wrong she tends to throw a wobbly. W has started work. His first project is on a hospital to the north of town in a place called Heidelberg ('You've gone all that way to be sent to work in GERMANY???' W's mum). It's on site which means lots of liasing with client, contractors, etc plus learning the ropes from colleagues. We're all missing each other loads as we'd got used to being togther as a family 24/7 for the last month. The laydeez have done trips to the Botanical gardens, the Aquarium, the shops, and the galleries where we chanced upon an acrobatic show for kids called a Barrel of Monkeys which Thea loved so much we went to see it the next day too.

We are really hoping to get our own place to rent soon. Turns out there are more people wanting to rent than houses at the mo and we've had a couple of disappointments, applying for houses which we didn't get or had already been let. So it feels a bit like limbo land: once we know where we are going to be settled we can start playgroups, swimming, library trips, etc and get established. Patience required! Anyway, this Friday is Australia day which means everyone gets a day off work and we can all have some fun. Hurrah.