Firstly

Firstly, an apology to our friends and family that attended our going away party, unfortunately, playing the song 'leaving on a jet plane' has lost its relevance as we flew to Canberra on a small little twin-prop plane from a wet, gloomy and quite frankly miserable Melbourne morning.

This was after a frantic Thursday planning our uplift date. However, the Friday of the uplift was a slow, uneventful day. Our movers packed everything we owned so we were left sitting and supervising the pack, which was quite boring! By the end of the day our cars were on a (very long) truck, and everything we own in a shipping crate on the back of another truck.

Tomorrow (Monday) our belongings will arrive and will be put into storage until we find a place (more on that later). Our cars however wont arrive until the following Monday, leaving us without a car for a week, which is okay, because today we used the Canberra bus system for the first time and it worked great, hopefully the experience was typical of what we can expect from the ACT public transport system!

Our hotel is great, our room overlooks a pool and we are so centrally located in the civic side on Canberra that everything is quite literally a stonesthrow away.

Our first weekend in Canberra has coincided with the multi-cultural festival so we have immersed ourselves in the multiple cultures on display (mostly via food!) down in the heart of Civic. We shared chips on a stick and Alice tried some curry which apparently included the entired animal... bones and all. Culture! It's fair to say the chips on a stick was far more enjoyable than the curry with extra crunch! 

Only 34-odd hours into our trip it has been all-new and all-exciting. One week until I start work, and 3 weeks until we will definitely have our own place! Hopefully Alice & I can keep you up-to-date and maybe entertained with our photos and anecdotes!

Cheers,
Darcy