Well, here I am, sitting at my new desk (which has a great view of the campus lake out the window). I have been at work for two days now, and so far everything has gone well.
We set out on Friday morning, Melbourne time, knowing that we would be held up in the airport due to the scares with plane travel that have occured in the past week or so. We arrived at Los Angeles around 1 1/2 hour later than we should have, and sadly got redirected to a much later flight to Portland. This would not have been so bad, except that the change meant that we were stuck in the airport for at least 5 - 6 hours. (Not so good for the kids - who were teriffic through the whole flight - people on the plane even mentioned how good they were!)
We eventually got into Portland around 9pm, and after getting our baggage and rental car, we were in the appartment around 10 - 10.30pm. We were so tired, we just all got unpacked and slept.
The weekend we pottered around the area, getting a feel for where we were, and headed out to buy the essential items - milk, bread, etc. (By the way - discount cards are a big deal here, and we managed to get a Safeway card, saving us around $USD20 off our grocery bill, and 6c/gallon off "gas" - Petrol for those outside of the USA.)
We are still not set up at home yet for broadband, we had a glitch with the cable modem that means it needs to be replaced. Hopefully I will get a chance to do that tonight before heading home. That will then mean we can start uploading some pictures, etc.
2 comments:
We have read your message,fine.
Please tell us more after about the children and when will they go to school.
we have all read your message, what's the weather like in portland? Plz post some more messages in the future and have fun!!
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