We arrived at our lovely new house at
We then started to unpack, and unpack and unpack. Every item had been wrapped in about 5 sheets of paper - even our bin bags and the kids plastic plates!! Adam and Emily loved rolling around in the paper and stuffing the empty boxes. We managed to finish unpacking most of the boxes by late morning – although we still had our suitcases and most of the boxes that had our clothes in them as we didn’t have enough hangers!
That afternoon we walked down to the Broadway centre (http://www.broadway-centre.com.au/home.asp) to buy some more essentials – kettle, toaster, iron, salt and pepper, pasta, etc – and then got a taxi back to the house. Emily had slept for a couple of hours in the morning and slept for another couple of hours in the afternoon in her buggy but Adam didn’t want to go to bed and didn’t have a buggy to fall asleep in so he fell sound asleep in the 10 minute taxi drive. We let Adam sleep for about two hours and then decided to wake him for some food and a bath before having a proper sleep – oh my goodness, what a nightmare. He pretty much cried for about an hour – after it taking us 20 minutes to actually get him awake – if you turned your back on him for a minute he was back asleep again. He eventually had some toast and then caught sight of his new Cars bed sheets and suddenly was happy again. Emily was more bearable after having had snoozes in the afternoon.
In between shopping, we managed to unpack a couple of the suitcases – well at least moved the clothes into the relevant rooms if not actually put away.
The kids slept well – until 5.30 for Adam and 6.30 for Emily. Adam slept on for a few more hours once I had calmed him down and climbed into bed with him which meant I had a couple extra hours sleep. Emily and Colin meanwhile had been for a couple of walks exploring the local area and finding the local Bakers Delight so we had fresh croissant and pain au chocolat for breakfast –very civilised.
We decided to stop unpacking for a few hours and went on the light rail to
Unfortunately, Sunday night meant back to normal for Colin as he was in work on Monday morning, although it wasn’t that normal – we were all in bed by 8.30!!
