Charlie's 30!

It's been a few days since I have posted anything so I guess it's about time : ) We have had a busy few days! Friday was Charlie's 30th birthday.. we celebrated it by going out to dinner and to a co-worker's house for a little get together. Dinner was great, we walked to a little Asian restaurant call Sesame's down the street from us. Charlie's only requirement for the restaurant choice was that it had BYO (one of the many great things about Australia, you can bring your own wine to certain restaurants). So we headed there for dinner with our Australian Chardonnay : )

Friday was also a busy day for me. While Charlie has been working, I have been searching for a house for us. On Thursday we went to view a gorgeous new property right down the street from us. We loved it and put in an application... we ended up getting offered the house, but it turned out it wasn't exactly what we were looking for. The owner was only willing to rent it to us for 6 months and after viewing it we realized it did not have air-conditioning or heating. So after hours of back and forth on the phone with the realtor, we decided it just wasn't the house for us. Soooo we are still homeless.

After that fun little day, reality set in that in a week we are going to truely be homeless since our rental ends here at 193 Corlette. So we have now started looking for another temporary place to stay. We are looking north of here in Port Stephens.. a cute little resort community… about the same distance from work for Charlie, but about an hour outside of Newcastle. We figured it would be fun to be on "vacation" for a week or two. We have found a couple of properties that are directly on the water... so hopefully one of those will work out : )

In other news, we are looking forward to our first Thanksgiving in Australia later this week! I went to the local butchery afraid they were going to laugh at me when I asked for a turkey, but as it turns out they order a few in each year for us lone Americans. So Charlie and I have a 4.5kg (around 9 lbs.) turkey to eat... it could take a while. I might have to send some turkey into work with him!

Well, that's about it from here!