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Cynfor's first day of soccer!

Today was Cynfor's FIRST game of soccer. He played well, he even kicked a goal for the second half of the game. It was a bit warm today, so he was a little tired, but loved playing anyway. Check out the video of his kick-off. It only goes for 20 seconds, but you see him kick the ball ! Go Blast! (The name of his team.)

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School play ground

Cynfor is playing soccer with his friends in school.
Jessie is playing with her friend on Monkey bars.
This is a picture of half of their play ground. No way I can take a picture of the whole ground! They are big on sport! 

Children's Playground

This is the park about 2 minute walk from our house.











Cynfor and Jessie are playing with their friends. 

New house pictures - after the move in...

Here are some pictures of the house AFTER we have moved in, and Tara has unpacked the majority of our boxes. Doesn't it look more homely! (Check out my 32" LCD TV :o) ...)

NOTE: The picture link below is the same as before, we have just added more pictures to the link!

Our Rental House (September 8th 2006)

Aug 2, 2006 - 40 Photos

Cynfor's new soccer look...

Cynfor has been enrolled into the local soccer group, and here he is with his new uniform on - doesn't he look smart! He is going to training on Monday and Wednesday nights - just started last Monday. The coach is already saying he will be an asset to the team! They play on Saturday mornings - before 12 mid-day, and generally play around the local area. He is excited about his first game, and loves getting out on the field and playing with the kids. It is a lot of fun, with a lot of involvement from the parents - a good social exercise!

Unpacking and boxes everywhere...

The move in so far has gone well, we even have a TV to watch! (Although there is still an issue with nothing on - we are also short of channels - no cable...)

There are boxes all over the house at the moment, as we sort through things, although the number of full boxes is getting smaller by the hour as we are continually unpacking things.

The kids rooms are pretty much all done. We are ALL glad to be back in our own beds, after two months being in other beds that were not our own.

Tara has spent all day today sorting through the kitchen stuff, and unpacking more and more boxes. We found out very quickly that our kitchen in Australia had A LOT MORE cupboard space in Australia vs the USA.

The neighborhood is also quiet - by comparison to the noisy Portland streets (which we kind of miss sometimes!) Our next door neighbor said hello as we were moving in - this was kind of required, as the truck which held all of our stuff blocked their driveway as well as our place. The whole unpacking process was finished by just before we left to get the kids from school at around 2pm. The kids came home to most of the work being completed.

We have arranged for internet access as of Tuesday of next week (fingers crossed) - and that should mean we can get our home computer online again. At the moment it is sitting idle ready and waiting for the "blue cable..."

As soon as we have the internet back, we will send through some pictures of how things look after the unpacking. We are pretty close to getting everything set up the way we want it.

Keys to the new house!

We have the keys to our rental house, and will move in on Monday. We have taken some photographs of the house without any furniture, etc. so you can get an idea of what it looks like.

After we move in, we will take more pictures so you can see what it looks like with the furniture inside!

Our Rental House (September 8th 2006)

Aug 2, 2006 - 18 Photos

First Day to School

Today is Cynfor and Jessie's first day to their new school.
They seem enjoy it very much. They couldn't stop talking about it on the way back... 

Trip to Seattle

So, here we are in Seattle. We visited the flight museum on Sunday, and saw a retired Air Force One place. (This plane carried the president during the 1950's, and is now retired, and no longer in use.) There was an old Concorde also, which allowed us to look through how people used to travel when the Concorde was in the air.

We also visited the Seattle "Space Neddle," which had an amazing view of above Seattle. Because it was such a lovely day, we got to see A LOT !

We visited the "Pike Place" Market, which is where the fresh fish market is. It is extremely popular, and quite busy. There were many bargains, but we did not purchase anything fresh - as we did not have the way to take it home to Portland with us. The last picture is taken from Western Seattle looking back at the city skyline.

All in all, it was a lovely trip, Tara met up with some friends, and we saw a lot of the "tourist places" in Seattle.