Hot

...and when I said the house was hot last night - I really meant it.

Central A/C was not something we found in any of the places we looked at here in Perth, we have a large wall unit upstairs that does a pretty good job of keeping us in the low 80s / high 70s in the playroom and the master bedroom. We rented a portable A/C for FFM's room when we did the package of rental appliances way back when we moved in. And downstairs, well, we close the shades during the day and open the windows when it drops below 85F.

Back

After spending more time on the road than actually living in our new Perth home, FFM and I have returned to Western Australia. We made it home, with Penny and Travis, late last night with all luggage in tow (amazing). The house was HOT but we all crashed into bed. Today will be filled with laundry and groceries, deleting junk email and the such. More blog updates coming soon.

Cruisin'

We are still onboard...working our way around New Zealand and having a grand time. We learned FFM is not allowed in the ship's pools, however, which has put a slight damper on the days we are at sea and not in a port (something to do with non-toilet trained children and the filtration system). However he's made a million pals onboard and jogs around giving high fives. Yesterday Travis and I did a tour on our own while Grandma Penny babysat and someone we don't remember ever meeting asked us where our kid was...that's how deep FFM's posse is.

We'll be back with more stories soon, but with internet onboard at US$28/hour the only internet we slow down for is at internet cafes. Expect more news and loads of photos from our trip about Jan 6th or 7th upon our return to Australia!

Around the world we go

We're off again, to rejoin Travis down under. FFM, Penny and I head out of Denver and back to Australia tomorrow evening after a lovely two month visit to the good ole USA. I've eaten Mexican food nearly every day, driven an enormous SUV around for most of the time, and done a great deal of American style consumer shopping.

This flight will be a little shorter, 17 hours of planes plus about 6.5 hours of airports for grand total of about 23.5 travel hours. We're only going as far as Sydney where we'll connect with Travis and hang out for a few days. Then we're all off to New Zealand for two weeks on a lovely family cruise. I've never cruised before and am looking forward to the new experience. Especially now that we have the bed solution resolved for the munchkin that outgrew every pack-and-play known to man.

FFM loves his 'Peapod Plus'

So things may be a little quiet for the next couple weeks....there is internet on the ship but it's pricey. Little fingers got to my camera yesterday and it got smashed...and then replaced today (darling darling husband calmly emailed that yes, a decent camera was immediately necessary) but for a brief moment I thought perhaps there would be no photos of New Zealand to share! Fear not, the traveling Moores continue on.

We hope you and yours all have a safe and happy holiday season. Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, and we hope the New Year finds you all in fine spirits.

You know it's really cold when...

...you run outside to take the garbage out and your nose hairs freeze. Yup, that's when it's really cold. It's frigid, like seriously freezing here. We didn't make it to double digits at all today and at 9am when we got out of the car to go to the doc it was still -2. That's F folks, in C that's about -19. AT 9AM! Not the middle of the night! And in DENVER! Sure, sometimes in those high mountain valleys it gets a little chilly, but it also usually warms up as the sun comes up. By lunchtime I think we made it all the way to about 4F. Balmy!

Meanwhile, Travis reported the thermometer on our back patio got to 99.1F (or 37C) yesterday. He called it 'global temperature parity.' I call it living on opposite sides of the planet and being ready to be done with that. Soon...we'll head out of Denver before the end of the week to connect in Sydney for the next leg of our adventure.

Update - record breaking low of -19F that night. Very very cold.