Where we are at now

Have internet now ...but sorry to say that our internet is slowwwwwww! So, it's hard for me not to lose interest before the blog page loads. ha ha

We are just staying in temp furnished housing right now since our furniture and other stuff is still not here (Grrr). Our shipping company was supposed to send it in November and didn't actually ship it until AFTER we were already here. And since it takes 2-3 months to ship, we will be in temp housing until the end of April. Therefore, we can not really get permanent internet yet. Plus they won't let us set it up without a permanent address and the temp housing place we are staying doesn't have it set up yet to offer. I also can't get anything more than a pre-paid phone with out having a permanent address that we can show a utility bill for proof. And on top of it, it's hard trying to get things done over in the US when we are 18 hours ahead and don't have good internet.

For the first couple of weekds we were staying in a 2 bedroom/ 2 bathroom hotel suite in the middle of the city. It was Australia's national holiday, "Australia Day" (like our Independance Day) on January 26th, so Jeremy's company was unable to secure housing for the full time in one spot due to all the places being booked out.

Last Saturday we moved into a 3bed/2bath apartment in Kingston, which is about 5-10 minutes from where we were at in the hotel. It is much cozier and feels like a home. It's the first time we have been able to somewhat unpack and feel like we are in a "home" since October.

Here's some pictures of the place we are staying. You can click on it to enlarge it if you didn't already know that. :)

There's not much of a view like at the hotel. (Pic of the view from our hotel room before)

We were on the 7th floor overlooking everything before and it was Awesome! Now we are really close to the lake. The area we are in now is a new area and has lots of construction going on around us. It will be really nice once it's done. It would be awesome if we could stay in this place the whole time we are here but we are about 15 minutes too far north of where Jeremy will actually be working. So, we want to move a little closer to his work. We want to keep to one vehicle while we are here and I don't want to take time out to drive him back and forth so far with the kids.

Jeremy was looking up prices of our Kingston home and found that it would cost $1.3 MILLION dollars to live here. Holy Crap! What the? I mean, it's nice and all, but for $1.3 mil in Utah, you'd be living in a massive house. This place doesn't even have a garbage disposal (which I'm finding most places don't). Something else that is rare to have is an ice maker or water dispenser in your fridge. Isn't that crazy? We are living in the lap of luxury in the US at great prices and don't even know what we have there. I continue to feel grateful for everything we have back home.