This is Heather writing my first blog post. We have not so patiently been waiting for internet service to begin at our apartment. Sadly, it has been almost a month and no internet yet. It makes it harder to keep up with the blog and I have no pictures on my computer to add to the blog. I apologize for the lack of blog posts lately.
Our daily life
Eric goes off to work sometimes really early in the morning to communicate with people who are in a time zone 16 hours behind us. He has a few options for his morning commute: tram, train or bike.
Isabel dresses in all navy blue (school uniform) with her hair pulled back (school rule) and strolls 10 minutes along a canal to get to school. We are entertained by the antics of ducks, geese, gulls and pigeons. We also sometimes see black swans, egrets, cormorants and spoonbills. Flying above our heads are also parakeets, cockatoos and crow like birds that are black and white.
I spend my time walking around to markets, grocery stores, yoga classes and the coffee shop to use their internet. I occasionally make it out to the beach for a walk. It also takes forever to do laundry. We have a small machine that both washes and dries which seems great but turns out to be really inefficient. It literally takes over 4 hours to do a small load of laundry. I try to dry clothes outside when I can because it seems to be faster than using the machine.
We usually spend Saturdays going to markets where we can buy better and cheaper produce and meat than the grocery store. We also explore the different neighborhoods of Melbourne. Melbourne is a great city - clean and safe.
Sunday we try to get out of city for a day trip. There are great areas to explore about an hour outside of the city - forests, wildlife, beaches, coastline, wineries and mountains.
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