Saturday Outing

We started out our morning by sleeping the latest by far we have slept all week - SIX THIRTY!!! We all woke and felt well rested for the first time in the last seven days.  We had a great breakfast and headed off to look at a house about 15 minutes north of the city - and about 2 miles from the beach.  The house is an older home with some quirks, but it's hard to complain about it when it has a multi-level limestone patio with fabulous pool, oceanviews, great schools and the whole back of the house is lined with windows that face the ocean/pool.  Mind you, it's not a completely unobstructed view (since we are not millionaires :-)), but it will definitely work.  It's a 2 story home with 3 bedrooms/1 bath & central gameroom type space upstairs, with two family room areas, dining room, Master bedroom/bath, 1/2 bath and kitchen downstairs.  Again it's older on the inside, but what sells the house is the outside.  We have another house to look at on Monday afternoon and then can make a decision.  Given the amount of people that were at the viewing this morning, we then will have to compete with other applicants I'm sure.  However, our realtor assures me that she is confident we are in the best position given we are relocating - as we are "prequalified" if you will.  Such a crazy process to go through just to rent a house! We received word that our container with our belongings should be here sometime around the beginning of March.  I have been told that being reunited with your stuff is like Christmas! Ha!

After the viewing, we headed to Hillarys Marina and Boardwalk, just a short drive away.  We at fish and chips on the boardwalk, bought the kids some new floaties for brunch and swim at Dave and Jane's tomorrow morning and visited the aquarium.  The kids had a great time - well Lainey was a tad fussy and kept complaining her legs were hurting from all the walking we did.  It was a long walk, but ah, got to love the whiny 4 year old. :-)  After wearing the kids out, we headed home, stopped by our local grocer and picked up some ice cream - much needed on this hot day!  Everyone is settling in for an afternoon rest and we'll likely head to the park by the river later. 

I posted more pictures on Facebook, but here are a few from our outing today.  We have some from the beach on Thursday, but we are having a hard time getting those uploaded.  As soon we can fix the issue, I'll post those as well - the water is BEAUTIFUL!  And yes, they do have shark patrol.  They have a tower out on the jetty that lifeguard keeps watch, a patrol boat and patrol by air via helicopter.  If a shark is spotted, they have an alarm they will sound.  We didn't get very far in the water.  ;-)

Love this pic of the kids in front of the Humpback Whale tail!  It's really that big and I can't wait to watch the migration starting in September - going to be amazing!

Sam and Lainey petting a friendly shark - felt like sandpaper

 Area we are looking to rent a house

Lindsey looks happy doesn't she? :-)

I still feel like I need to pinch myself because this just doesn't feel like by life!  I miss everyone dearly, but I am glad we decided to take this leap of faith.  It just goes to show you that you never know what God has in store!

Cheers,

Wendy