In morning toast. Then a drive to check out a few more houses. Back at cabin and noodles. Swim in pool then walk and dinner in south townsville, outback jacks. Very nice indeed. So far best areas we like are north ward, belgian gardens and for potential geowth, south townsville.
Well here we are in sunny slash wet slash hot slash humid Townsville. This is day 4 so i'll bring you up to date.
Up at 4am to get ready and final pack for taxi pick up at 5am. Call from taxi service at 4.55 saying cant find cabi will call when whereabouts known. 5.15 still no sign with check in at airport closing in an hour. I call taxi rank demanding to know where my taxi is. Woman tells me to calm diwn when i get a text saying on his way so i hang up. Eventually see taxi at bottom of drive but he doesnt drive up and begins to drive away so me and Nathan are yelling at top of voices to get his attention. Eventually he manages to drive up. Its now 5.20. I haul our bags out my car, last resort, and into taxi. Now the driver didnt know how to reverse out and was going all over the place. Another 5 minutes gone. Eventually we make it out onto the road and we tell the cabbie to drive full speed with no time to spare. We eventually get to the airport and check in line just before it closed. We were one of the last on board. I really thought we wasnt going to make it.
Two and a half hours later we arrive in sunny Townsville. Off course our bags were last off the plane. Picked up the hire car and drove to our cabin at Rowes Bay caravan park. We arrived before cabin ready at 9.30 so hung around at the park opposite along the coast. After getting in we unpacked. First job was off to woolworths to get in some essential supplies, milk, bread etc. Then it was back to cabin and spend rest of day in pool. Evening we went to my favourite steak house along the Strand. Weather sunny and hot and humid.
Day 2. Monday.
In morning went to see Belgian Gardens school for Jade. Very nice indeed. Later went to Pimlico school to book appointment for Nathan. Snorklers in the bike sheds. In the afternoon had a drive up Castle hill and popped in to see an estate agent. Dinner was bbq along coast. In evening we had a drink and mapped out houses to view. Weather mix cloud and sun. Hot humid.
Tuesday day 3.
Went around several districts looking at houses. North Ward, Hermit Park, West End. All very nice and some affordable properties that we liked. In the afternoon we did the rock pool and the enclosed swimming area in the sea. Water lovely and warm. Dinner rather unsucessful and asleep by 10.
Wednesday Day 4.
Morning went to see Townsville Central State School. Beautiful school and again very impressed with its program. Happy to send Jade to either Belgian Gardens or this one. Fortunately Townsville State is not zoned. Afternoon after a walkabout down town back at cabin, lunch and off to big bucket and another dip in the warm see. A much better super tonight with chips from the chippy and a selection of fried meats. Forgot to mention last night really pissed down all night. I'm going to grab a beer.
On train home. Picked mom up from the airport this morning but had to dash off to work after getting lost on the freeway going back to greensborough. Looking forward to getting home :)
I'm writting this in bed. Mom is somewhere over india. The kids are really excited, jumping and larking about all evening until they went to bed. Tomorrow morning we go fetch grandma from the airport when her plane lands at 8.50am.
Well xmas has been and gone largley unnoticed except for me and the kids falling ill on consecutive days pushing the Turkey dinner out to the 27th Dec and even then I couldn't eat much of it. Xmas afternoon saw a super storm strike with hail size of lemons and much damage and flooding around diamond creek area, it was something else. Didn't even notice new year except for the yummy beef roast I cooked that was awesome. Upgraded our telstra bundle to 100gb and adsl2+ finally. Went on a bike ride, had a swim in warrendyte river as the weather over the holiday period was super hot and a spot of garden camping. That's about the lot.
Yesterday Buster broke free from his chain after a large male roo approached the house. Nothing was going to hold him back as he lept out of his bed like a lion onto its prey. We were pretty worried there for a while Buster would get injured but he came safely back after a few minutes out of breath but unscathed.
Good weekend. Hot day saturday, cold day sunday. Typical.
Thought i'd share this hairy picture taken last year i think.
