I’ll believe it when I see it:

The air shipment. The items we set aside in our living room in MA to be sent before we left, to be here when we arrived, or a few days thereafter. The 2 huge boxes of diapers, about 75 books, 2 bins of toys, sheets, towels, pillows, essential kitchen items, sippy cups, and so on [...]

We’ve been here for 2 weeks already?

And the only reason I know this is because we had to extend our rental car, for 2 more weeks. I guess so much has happened in the past 2 weeks, that our overnight stay at the hotel in El Segundo seems like ages ago. And staying in the Residence Inn for 2 nights in [...]

Saturday, in the park

I wish I could upload pictures to show, but I didn’t take any, and for some reason I can’t upload here anyway. We took the boys to Albert Park (this is a pretty well-known place, there is a big car race there in the summer) It is a beautiful park, big lake loaded with black [...]

I have to stop hugging my laptop to type this

OMG..I can’t believe I endured an entire week without the internet! On top of that, no cell phone or Cable TV either. Can you even imagine? Yea, no – me either. It was brutal. I was able to check my email on Craig’s blackberry, but I am terrible at typing on that thing. I finally [...]

Be Patient, it will be worth the wait!

I know, I know, I feel the same way all of you do. When is Danielle coming back online to share their experiences with all of us.  To begin with, the air shipment that was supposed to take a week or so, still hasn’t arrived and then has to go through customs. Imagine 600 lbs [...]

I am just the messenger…

I know everyone is so excited to follow the journey of Danielle, Craig, Cameron & Jake in Australia, but they will be without Internet connection for just a little bit. They have moved into their new house (with the amazing view of the beach & sunsets at night) and have to wait for their cable [...]

First week wrap-up

One week ago today, we started this adventure from the US to Australia. We packed our bags, watched as our house was packed away, made split second decisions on what to send in the air shipment (which HAS NOT arrived yet) or on the sea freight or to be put in storage, not to be [...]

Observations while driving on the left, from the right

I knew it would have to happen eventually, I can’t live here for 2 years and not drive at all. There’s going to come a time when I have no choice but to drive. But I am just not ready yet, I am not even comfortable being a passenger here (imagine sitting where we normally [...]

Getting settled

Our furniture is being delivered today, we got Jake’s crib set up, and plan to make a trip to the electronics store to get TV’s, Dvd player, clock radio’s, telephones, fridge, washer/dryer, microwave, toaster oven….all the essentials.
We took the boys to the house yesterday, they seemed to like it, Cameron was doing cartwheels in his [...]

Greetings, from down under!

Whew…we made it! It was not as bad as I had imagined, but I won’t be getting on an airplane with Jake again anytime soon. The flight from Boston to LA was bad. And when I say bad, I mean I honestly think Jake was possessed by the devil. We gave him Benadryl and it was [...]