the weekend

actually this is from the last 3 days...been swamped with house stuff this weekend as needing to try and make some decisions, the government are currently giving $10,000 to anybody who builds / signs the contract to build before 30 th April, so need to get a move on to get that back. However we also get another $7000 back for being first time buyers in QLD so all helps. So Friday we discussed our plans with two builders - 1 of them putting two storey back into the picture, as they are such a big company their costs are much lower and makes it possible. However, although structurally they are better, their final fixtures and fittings are not quite a nice as the others, but the question is...is it worth forgoing that to get the 2 storey and bigger garden? So we are now down to 4 builders - 2 with 2 storey (the other a smaller house though) and 2 with single storey!!! So more emails sent today to answer some more questions but the decision must be made soon, and of course Mark prefers the structure and I prefer the aesthetics... so watch and wait!

So what else... Friday morning we went to get our QLD driving licenses which was dead easy except that because the lady dealing with mine found my name on their main system she kept asking if I'd had any parking tickets or been caught speeding !!! How dare she! I've been very good since being here, honestly!!! anyway, we worked it out that the salesman had entered our data when we bought the cars, gave me a chuckle anyway. Anyway after coughing up $119 each and finding out we have to renew it every 5 years we departed.

Yesterday Rebecca did her scholarship exam, thinks it went ok but we'll wait and see, there were 15 in her year doing it and they only give 2 scholarships to the 2 with the highest marks, so unlikely, but you never know, still she did her best and that's all we asked. 

Today we did church this morning and got invited out for lunch by a lovely couple. When we arrived they had also invited about another 8 young people for Josh & Rebecca to meet, although they were the youngest, most of them were age 17 - 22yrs (ideal for Ceri) but they were real friendly. So we had a proper Aussie BBQ and sat out by their pool all afternoon and had a lovely time, finding out all sorts of useful things. After eventually getting home it was finishing the washing, homework etc. and now the ironing looms.... those shirts & skirts :(((   Then need to get ready for work tomorrow!