Yep no pictures.
Christmas was good for us this year. We settled on the lot we were purchasing on the 24th of December so we now own a piece of Melbourne. The contract with the builder was signed on the 21st so it is now up to the bank to approve the plans and we start.
Jennifer and myself are very nervous about this as it all the house money we have saved riding on this. It not like New Zealand, if a bank doesn't like you over here they have the right to make your life hell and we're changing banks.
So Christmas day was a quiet family affair with phones calls and Skype messages going most of the day. The turkey was grat as we had injected it with butter and Cajun spices. A great combination and it made the turkey taste incredible. The kids all got HP netbooks for Christmas so the house was full of computer questions. it's settle down now and there are no more arguments about who's turn it is on the mac. I just say "use your own" and they do. I also got an extra one for Jennifer and myself to use for when we're doing he genealogy and studies.
Lissa and Gemma are both planning to go to Brisbane for conference over the new year, so thing will be quiet for us as well over the new year.
Jennifer and I have been doing a few road trips and a little bit of shopping, but not much else.
Hope everyone has a great new year as we Will be , we're building a new home.
Piece of Dirt
**** UPDATE **** 23/12/2009
We now own a piece of dirt in Australia.
Well technically the Bank owns the land. but we can call it ours.
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Well were finally ready to try to purchase some land in the city.
So this is it. lot 1113 in Alamanda sub-division.
If it goes through and we get the finance then we start to build a new home.
It will be about twice the size of the one we had in Auckland.
So we're praying hard at the moment.
Road Trip East
Well we just went to the east. The area is green at the moment and surprising looked like the king country of New Zealand.
the day was a bad day for photo's.
Australia is Yellow
When traveling across the western plains of Melbourne you begin to realise that it not brown, at this time of year, it's Yellow.
The field are large and all flowering.
Birds at play
While on my trip to the Grampians National Park, i stopped for lunch.
And these birds joined me.
The Wind Farm
On the road to the Grampians National Park I passed a Wind farm.
I went off the main road to get some pictures of them closer.
To me they were an asset to the landscape, I New Zealand, they object to them because of the way they look.
What a lot of rubbish. these wind mills look fantastic to look at.
OH well. I hope to a lot more of them in the future.
Grampians National Park
The Grampians National Park is a park about 3 hours drive to the west of Melbourne.
I went on a road trip to go and see, all of the family were working or regarded the 6hour driving as too far.
The ranges are a beautiful set of mountains. coming straight out of the plains. They just seems to rise out strong and majestic.
The Grampians National Park is mostly a rockery area. The only think that does well there is the wildlife and great views and vista's. It was also a great drive as I miss the country side a lot.
It was well worth the visit, but is best done at this time of year when the place has some greenery.
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