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Silver, Gold, Silver, and Bronze!

Silver, Gold, Silver, and Bronze!

Well it’s been quite the sporting week here in little Yeppoon, with some successful performances by the new Canadian transplants! Hugh started the week off well on Monday placing 2nd in a field of 100 in a golf comp! (Aussie translation reminder: comp = tourney)...
Paint, Pasta, Bread, Birds, and Bingo

Paint, Pasta, Bread, Birds, and Bingo

Still no sign of our shipping container :(. But the good news is, we haven’t heard that they’ve inspected it and found problems, so hopefully it’s just busy and they haven’t gotten to it yet. But we figured it’s a good time to start...
Some Canada in our Hearts

Some Canada in our Hearts

So we got the jump on Canada Day this year, being 14 hours ahead of our friends in Ontario 🙂 We went to our fellow Canadian ex-pat friends’ place for dinner and they hosted another amazing evening! Rob got us started with homemade Caesars: You can’t get...
4 Momentous Things

4 Momentous Things

Momentous thing #1 – We took possession of our house! It has been a whirlwind few days as we moved all our stuff from the Airbnb to here, got a pile of deliveries of the stuff we didn’t bring on the container ship, and did a bunch of running around to pick...
What?! No pies?!

What?! No pies?!

Unfortunately, I have TERRIBLE news to report. There are no pies in Australia. (Yes, I even learned how to turn bold on in the blog software so I could emphasize my devastation.) Now, that doesn’t mean there aren’t any signs advertising pies – you...