December!

My last day of work was on Friday last week, and I don't return until January 10th. We're having some family visit in a few days and we're going to experience some more of Australia with them! I'm pretty excited. When we first arrived here we were so busy looking for a place to live and then jobs, that we've just been going hard for 10 months and now we're ready for a sweet vacation. Yesterday was my first day off so we went to a new beach with some friends, and Colin got to play with his surf board that he got as an early Christmas gift. I got a boogie board which was a lot of fun too. It was so hot out I couldn't even walk barefoot on the sand. Despite multiple sunscreen applications, I burned my arms for the second time this week. I blame my cursed freckles!

After we got home from the beach we decided to head off to the grocery store for some dinner. I made Colin come with me because I was too wiped to go by myself, but he was disappointed because he was going to play in the backyard. After we parked we decided to re-park the car in a spot further ahead, but as soon as Colin turned the key we realized that our battery had bit the dust. I went inside to get the groceries while poor Colin walked around the parking lot asking people if they had jumper cables. When I came out he still hadn't found anyone with some, and we didn't know what we were going to do 'cause it was already 7pm and everything was closed. In the very moment we had given up, a car was about to park beside us, and they had jumper cables! Yay!

This morning our neighbors boosted our car for us so we could drive to get a new battery. Colin changed it in the store parking lot and now our car is good as gold. I feel so fortunate that the car waited until I didn't have to drive to work in the morning to die on me, and that it waited until we were home from the beach. It really couldn't have been better timing.

E.