Moving In

Here I am, in Adelaide Australia. Graham and I left on Sep. 3rd and arrived here on the 5th, so apparently Thursday just flew right on by without us knowing. It was Friday just before lunch when our plane landed and we cleared Australian customs without any major problems. The actual act of moving into our dorm style room didn't take too long and we spent more time getting to know the base and taking in the scenery.

The base here in Adelaide is located about ten minutes into 'the hills' from the edge of the city. The beach is actually through the city and a little further away than we anticipated, but it's still the end of winter here and beach season doesn't begin until October. Australian winters are another peculiar thing because today was probably the coldest day we had at 12 degrees or so with rain all day. Around Christmas time it gets up to 40 degrees and really dry, so we'll see how Christmas without any snow goes. The scenery is beautiful as we expected and there are some very large trees and some good sized cliffs. Looking out of our dorm room from the balcony you can see a vineyard next door, huge trees with cockatoos in them (which are very loud by the way), and large rolling hills with narrow roads winding through them. Nearby is a national park which we will check out sometime in the next little while if we don't see any kangaroos or koalas near the base. Another thing we're planning on checking out are the waterfalls; within a half hour hike are three different water falls. I'm not sure how big they are but they sound beautiful. I'm attempting to paint a picture of how things look because our computers are incredibly slow and it doesn't look like we'll be uploading any pictures to facebook anytime soon. Sorry.

As to our positions here as missions builders the work has not yet begun. We start tomorrow (monday) and are more than likely going to be doing some outdoor maintenance and upkeep of the property. The building is quite old and needs some attention. The driveway is also a force to be reckoned with but Australia doesn't have tractors 'o' plenty like manitoba, so we'll see if we decide to tackle that project while we're here. We may also be involved in kitchen duties as well, they found out that I cook and so I may not have a choice. During the weekend we're required to cook for ourselves and so that has been nice because I haven't had the opportunity to cook much since spring. You'll notice I haven't talked about people much, the weekends are fairly dead and we've only met a few people so far. The ones that we've had the pleasure of meeting have all been really nice and we look forward to meeting the rest come monday morning.

That's about everything I can think of for now, feel free to ask comments, leave questions; however that goes. You know what I mean. G'day for now.