House Pics

 
I'm not sure if too many people saw them last time so I uploaded our house pics to flickr. Either click here or on the photo above to check out our new place!

Photos from the NZ Trip

As promised some photos of our recent trip to NZ. Either click here or on the pic above to be taken to see more! Looking through them reminded me of just how many people we saw in such a short space of time. It also reminds me how tired I must have been as I didn't take anywhere near as many photos as usual!

Michelle has a pretty good write-up of the trip over on her blog, so I suggest you check it out. Once again, click here or the link on the right.

To Mum and Dad, I am still working through the 500+ plus photos we (I?) took when you guys were over, but I'll have them ready soon, I promise! 

We're Back!

What a trip! It was a whirlwind as we'd expected, and we were both pretty tired by the end. I am still trying to recover from it! I'll post more later, but in brief; we caught up with a bunch of people at Dan's, the wedding was great and the reception was fun, we visited both Jim and Omi (my grandparents), went up the sky tower, out to a sex shop in Panmure (to visit Tama!) and out for brunch in Ellerslie!

The flight back to Sydney was delayed by 2 hours, though, and by that stage both Michelle and I were getting seriously tired and grumpy...

Nevertheless, it was an good trip and it was awesome to catch up with everyone again.

We are now officially in debt!

We both got this texted to us today! Hooray! Now things can really get going. We are making lists of things we need to do before, during and after settlement. There are so many things to move and organise, and we have a trip to NZ squeezed in there too...

Speaking of which, we are flying in on Friday. We are hoping to catch up with pretty much everybody! Dan has been awesome in offering to pick us up and put us up. He is suggesting a night of Xbox360 revelry and it is sounding mighty damn tempting!

Michelle has never been to NZ before, so its going to be fun to see her reaction to things. Its really not that different from Australia (or vice versa, depending on your frame of reference), so it will be interesting to see what differences she picks up on.

Well, we are off to dinner now. My camera was out of battery so I only just got the pics off the camera, so the show pics will have to wait until the next update.... I promise! 

Two steps forward, one step back

There was a minor hiccup with our house purchase today as our conveyancer spotted an error in our Form 1. This mean we had to have it reissued and go through the cooling off all over again! This isn't such a bad thing, though, and it is good that the error was spotted. It also justifies our decision to use an independent conveyancer and not the same one as the vendor (as our agent recommended!).

So after that minor hassle we both got text messages saying that our loan has been conditionally approved! Apparently the valuer for the bank thought we got a good deal on the place so that is cool! I tend to flip-flop between thinking we got a good deal and thinking we paid too much, so its good to get an independent opinion.

Oh, and Michelle scored some media passes to the Adelaide Show, so expect some pics!

Last Morning in Dadelaide

This morning Dad and I went out for one last coffee on Rundle Mall. It also allowed me to take a few last minute photos of Dad the tourist. I tried to get my camera out for a photo as he left but the taxi driver whisked him away super fast! He had no consideration for the emotion of the moment!

Michelle and I got our building and pest inspections completed today and things mostly look good. The only issues are ones that are covered by the strata fees, which is good news. Most of them are in the process of being resolved so we'll ride the strata management until they are done!

Other than that, we managed to catch Lady in the Water at the movies. It was quite fun! I would recommend it to anyone who likes fairy tales :) 

Mini-golf-tastic!

More golf, but this time its of the mini variety. We draggeed Michelle along this time and despite getting 3 holes-in-one I managed to lose to both Dad and Michelle by 1 stroke! Dad is heading home tomorrow so we are going out to curry tonight so that he has a nice comfortable flight home...

Michelle and I have received a copy of the contract signed by the vendor so the cooling off period has officially begun. Michelle's uncle (a civil engineer!) looked through the place on the weekend and gave it his stamp of approval. Everything is coming up Milhouse. 

Golf-tastic!

I managed to drag Dad out for a round of golf today. Dad started with a hiss and a roar but faded fast. The hill on the second hole proved his undoing and I stormed to the lead. Despite a few hiccups along the way I managed to overcome Dad's late challenge and win! On top of that, we got the clubs back into the clubhouse with a minute to spare!

In more serious news, Michelle and I have applied for our home loan and are awaiting the completed contract to be delivered. Everything is happening at a hectic pace, although I am told that it will slow down until settlement. I can't wait to move into our own place :)

And in more whirlwind news, Michelle and I have a 3 day holiday in NZ coming up in 2 weeks! Crazy!