We found a house!

Well, after a lot of searching we have finally found a place to live! We are SO excited to finally have somewhere to call home, even though it will be a few weeks until we're moved in. We were fortunate enough to find a lovely 4 bedroom home in North Sydney, just blocks away from 3 of our favourite suburbs... North Sydney, Crows Nest and Neutral Bay. We will be directly across the street from St. Leonard's Park, so the children will have plenty of room to run around and play on the playground. We'll also be able to walk to views of the harbour and will be 2 train stops (5 minutes) away from the Olympic pool and the Sydney Harbour Bridge. It will be so nice to be in town and so close to everything... much closer than we had ever hoped! Our house was built c1900 in the Victorian Era and has beautiful stained glass and original tiled fireplaces (although we can't use them due to fire regulations). It was just re-painted both inside and out and has new carpet in the bedrooms and polished timber floors in the rest of the house. We'll have some gardening to do, but that will be good for me! Hopefully the Sydney Funnel Web spider won't come out to join me at that... I have hiking boots and long shovels on the plan, and as you know, I'm not much of a gardner, so this will be a real treat and scare for me!!!

We'll be moving in by 11 February and hope to have our computer in place by then. As my laptop is officially dead now, I can only use Blake's during the evenings and won't be able to post any pictures until our desktop arrives by sea, so bear with me! I'll be sure to post the pictures from our Wildlife extravaganza by then as well.

Love to all and Happy Australia Day on 26 January (the day the Brits docked in Sydney with their prisoners in 1788 and began a city/country)!!

Also, Blake is being taken to the mens finals of the Australian Open in Melbourne on our Sunday night by one of his clients, so look for him on TV!!