Down Under!

Hi, we live in a hotel!!  Sounds fun, right! Well you are right it is awesome! Someone comes in everyday and takes out our *rubbish, changes our sheets, gives us new clean towels, and fluffs our pillows!  However, hotel life can get pretty boring! So to keep busy I highly recommend some of the following options.

Races in the halls! I'm sure this is not bothersome to anyone!

 

Buy your kids expensive toys to keep them entertained!  Maybe next time I won't let him choose one that makes noise! 

And of course the lovely iPads! Don't leave home with out them!

 

Lots and lots of playing UNO.  Just a side note…the UNO cards were $9 at the local grocery store! Wowsa!

 

Lastly, we end our night with a photo shoot!

Here is the lovely view from our balcony hotel room. We are about 20 minutes east of the city. 

I need to be better about taking my camera out with me during the day so you can see more of the suburbs. Boston can not get over that they have no mountains.  He just keeps saying, "but Mom why do they not have mountains!!!"  He also is so sad that we will have no snow come Christmas.  Me on the other hand is pretty pumped about it!  I am sure on Christmas and stuff it will be so odd and I will hate it!

The kids started school today and they really liked it.  It is very different than at home.  Lillie is in *prep school.  There are about 20 kids in her class.  However, they have 3 teachers.  She goes all day which is different than at home as well.  Which I picked her up from class her teacher told me that she was smothered all day and the kids loved listening to her talk because she had an accent!  She made lots of new mates! Boston, is in grade 1.  However, they do grades 1 and 2 together but they have 4 or so teachers and about 35 kids total in both grades.  They do more of groups of 3 and 4 at a time for main subjects like literacy, math, and science.  For things like art, *music, and swimming they go as a group.  He met some new friends as well.  He is pretty excited about the uniforms that they get to wear.  He wore his jacket all day with pride!  He also asked if when he come home in two years if he could bring it home with him! :)

So to my mothers out there!  We are alive.  I would not go as far as to say we are LOVING it!  I think each day will get easier and easier.  I have now not only driven but today I drove all by myself!  It is little things like that that make me realize not only CAN I do hard things but that i AM doing hard things.  However, as cheesy as it sounds I feel the Lord looking out for us.  Just when I want to give up a song comes on the radio that reminds me of something good from home.  Or, I get an e-mail or someone face times us.

We had church on Sunday because we are a day ahead of  the states.  Church was really good.  We are in the Wantirna South ward.  We meet at a pretty big meeting house and directly behind the church is the Melbourne Temple.  That was really neat for the kids to see.  The temple is so beautiful.  The Bishop invited us over for dinner.  We had spaghetti with meat (*lamb) balls.  Yummy, right?!  The family was so nice and sweet.  We really felt very welcome by his family.  My favorite part is probably that his oldest daughter like to babysit! Wahoo!!!  Anyway, I know this post was long but I just wanted to fill everyone in on whats going on down under!

Our daily Aussie Slang

*rubbish:  trash

*Prep School is just like kindergarten just a different name for it

*The music classes are awesome here.  Boston can either start learning piano, guitar, or drums!   

*lamb- the lamb here is actually quite good!