The Great Migration

Last week my cousin moved over here to Melbourne. It is going to be so fantastic having her here. She has two boys similar ages to our kids. So it has been a busy and chaotic 2 weeks while she has been staying with us trying to find a house and sort through all the paper work for bank accounts/medicare/government payments etc. Not to mention the craziness of a small house with 5 little kids. I am sure you can imagine. Thankfully for all of us she found a house and moved in yesterday. I am totally jealous of her house it is beautiful!!!!!!!!! oh well only a few more months before my beautiful house will be ready.
We did a trip to the swimming pools, library, and indoor playground. I took all the kids to the playground by myself on the bus....I am not sure that I was thinking to clearly that day but it all went off without a problem and they were very well behaved. I think we must have stayed there for over 4 hours.
I have been forcing myself to drive here in Melbourne. It is VERY VERY different to driving in Palmy or most of NZ really. I have had to take Aarahi to work several times this week and an early morning trip to the airport. Lets just say I do not like driving at night and even more so I do not like getting lost in the country at night having to drive at 100ks oh and then missing the freeway exit....oh and add it pouring rain and gail force winds. Yep it was fun fun fun!
The city council runs free classes for kids after school which Auron is going to start going to next week. He is particularly excited about the Lego class which teaches kids about engineering using Lego. He loves going to the library to use the big Lego set they have. The librarian asked him if he would like to sign up for the class even though he is supposed to be 5. He is close enough anyway.
I have almost bought all of Aurons curriculum for next year except a couple of things that I need to ship from the US. I keep putting it off due to the ridiculous shipping cost. Hopefully I can find some way to do it cheaper but more than likely i'll just have to suck it up and hand over the money. I think this place is just incredibly expensive because I have never had to pay so much for shipping. Usually its around $30...not $80 haha its almost more in shipping than the product actually costs! So if anyone has any great ideas for me I'ld love to hear them.