We're here

It's our tenth day in Brisbane, and I'm seeing the limits of the blogging due to some imposed restrictions due to privacy issues in this household...I've got plenty of photos out on Picasa, and if you haven't received them but would like to please send me an email.

I am able to give you a little taste of Australia with some koala and kangaroo photos. (They seem not to have privacy issues.)

This one here is a wombat, and I just love the word wombat.

All is well here. We are settling in nicely. We're dining al fresco (largely due to a lack of indoor furniture, but also because we enjoy it). It's cool in the mornings and evenings, but nice and hot midday. similar to a Norwegian summer. The Australians are as friendly as everyone says they are, and the kids are getting along well making friends at school. The apartment looks just like it did on the web.

We've briefly checked out Surfer's Paradise (aptly named), the Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary (above), the Royal Botanical Gardens, both campuses of QUT, and the neighborhood (which will remain unnamed here because of blog stalkers, of course). It's quieter than we expected and very student-oriented, both pleasant surprises. The cool little cafe just across the street got a nice write-up in the paper this weekend. They had an Irish band playing live music last week. The big city is just a half hour walk away, or 5 minutes by bus. It is strange to think that we are half-way around the world. It really doesn't feel that way yet!