It was a good day

For me at least.  Matt started the day by getting out of bed and stepping on a slug at 1:00 am on his way to work.  One had infiltrated our defenses (which consisted of sprinkling table salt around the perimeter of the house).  That was about 16 hours ago and I'm still laughing about it (until it happens to me of course).  His description of the experience: "I almost puked".  He now has his flip-flops stationed right by the side of the bed.  A couple people told us to try little cups of beer - they love it and drown in it.  Those people don't know how expensive the beer is here. We're listening to the people who told us to use salt.

We took the bus to the city and to my new office building.  I'm going to love it.  The bus stop is a 2-minute walk from our house.  The public transportation here is really good (note, this is coming from someone who has never used public transportation).  The buses are timely, plentiful and clean.  It's about a 10-15 minute drive in and a walk literally across the street to my building.  We didn't go into the Experian offices since we had the kids so more on that next week.  I'm just really impressed with Sydney and how safe and clean it feels.

We also walked up to the boys' daycare so they could meet the teachers and kids and get a feel for the place.  It's located right across the street from Charley's school and they are about a 10 minute walk from our house.  After coming from a country acreage, the thing we like most so far (besides the weather) is the walking distance to everything we need -- five to ten minutes to shops, restaurants, gym, library, hair salons, pharmacies, grocery stores, etc.  So far, we don't think we'll have any problem down-sizing to one car.

And finally, the final one-third of our air shipment should be here tomorrow.  It cleared customs today.  It contains a brand-new 42 inch plasma TV.  It was a good day.  G'day!