Mika also opened a few presents (actual and virtual--books from her Amazon wish list) and we had the BEST chocolate cake ever. Dan found it at yonder Manuka bakery and we will be visiting that bakery often if I have any say in the matter!!
I just found our yesterday that summer here in Canberra (and I guess in all Australia, though that has yet to be independently confirmed) ends on Monday. March 1 is the beginning of fall. Jeez, it feels like we just left winter (okay, we missed the minus gazillion degree days that you Coloradans had to face, but still!) and now we're heading right into harvest season? I don't know why that seems even more confusing than just showing up here in the heat of summer, but there it is. Our first season is ending. Just writing that makes it feel like we have been here for something like a piece of time, and not just a few weeks. I suppose I will be boring you all with my musings over these tiny milestones (or this that kilometer-stones??) for months to come.
Through Dan's perseverence, we have now returned to the ranks of the internet-enabled. Installation came last Thursday and we are now proud parents of a wireless router, even. Never mind that the cables for all this connectivity are about to pull the eaves of the house (no fooling)...we are BACK!! I will let Dan rhapsodize on all that, since he was the one having to run from library to McDonalds for more than a week in the never-ending search for a reasonable Wi-Fi signal.
Other developments...
Mika tried out for a soccer team representing the Majura Football Club. We'd initially spoken with a club closer to our house, but it turned out that not all clubs are really for girls. The Canberra Football Club, we discovered, takes girls on, but only a few per team and the scuttlebutt was that they did so to keep their boys from getting too out of hand. Not wanting to have Mika's soccer season purposed in this way, we moved on to a club further afield, but one that had a good reputation for being fun and low-key. From the looks of things at the try-out, Mika's skills are on par with her Aussie counterparts and she's cautiously optimistic about the season. We all were also pumped by the news of the club's plans for a team trip to Borneo next year. Of course geographically challenged me has no idea where Borneo is, but I assume that Mika would never have made her way there otherwise, so we're thinking that it should be a go if things work out.
Today was house cleaning day for Kirsten. Those of you who know me can stop your eye-rolling right now. It was only to establish a cleanliness baseline...not a sign of things to come that I would regularly spend 4 hours cleaning all the floors in the house. Now we can let things go to hell in a handbasket. Ha.
But while cleaning, Mika found one of the big-assed Canberran spiders we had heard tell of prior to coming here, but had yet to see. Right on our shower wall yet. Okay, so it wasn't quite the size of an outstretched hand, but it did range larger with feet extended than my palm for sure.
Until next time....!
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