Life in Adelaide, part I

After some encouragement from friends and family, I have decided to start a blog to document our family adventures while living in Adelaide, Australia. . . Here goes!

Today is October 27, 2008. After a weekend spent taking care of a sick little baby (and trying to get in as much rest as possible to get over the cold that I had also come down with), Charlotte and I are having a very quiet Monday. She's still quite sick - very congested in her chest and nose - not really a pretty sight, but my hope is that she will get better as quickly as she got sick. Unlikely, but I'll still keep my fingers crossed. Normally we'd have gone to Kindergym today, but that will have to wait until next week. In fact, I suspect we will miss a lot of our regular activities this week, unless the aforementioned quick recovery actually does take place.

Just as we were gearing up for the hot weather here, things have regressed back to cool temperatures (at least for today). It was 37C on Saturday, and today the high is 16C. It's now 3:30pm and I don't think it's reached the high yet . . . Oh well. The forecast is for mid-30s for the rest of the week. Sounds nice, but it's hard to do much outside with a toddler when the weather is that hot. I'd be happy with 25C day after day, but it's not likely that there is any chance of that happening.

Halloween is just around the corner, and it will be interesting to see how differently it is celebrated (or not) here. I've heard that it's not a big deal at all, and so it seems, as there are only a few shops that have anything even resembling Halloween in stock. Trick or treating is DEFINITELY not done here, but a few people have mentioned that kids will, on occasion, dress up. We were sent a costume for Charlotte from her Grandma back home, so at least we'll have some pictures of her all dressed up. Our neighbors across the hall are half Canadian (by that I mean one half of the couple is Canadian), so perhaps we can do some sort of Halloween activity with them and their little boy who is 3.

That's it for my inaugural blog. Hope I did ok . . .