Smokin'

Hello everyone and thank you for all the messages during the week. As you know by now Victoria was hit by some disastrous bushfires. They were for the most part, north of us but one or two were only a 10 minute drive away. We are fine though and the one that was in Bendigo didn't harm any of Brad's family so we are very thankful. Last week we didn't get up to much. There has been a lot of focus on the fires and the victims killed and the houses lost. We went out for Valentines night on Thursday to Koko at Crown (domo arigato Leanne for the voucher which we only used now!). It was lovely Japanese and we had lots of food. Yesterday we went to visit with Brad's parents in Bendigo. We had lunch with Helen, John, Heather and Les before working on our invitaions for our blessing in June. We also stopped by Brad's grandparents for a visit too!

Yes so there's plenty of smoke around Melbourne the past few days. Luckily everyone I know is alright although a friend from work lost his home and belongings. Weather has cooled a little this week after Saturdays record 47 degree day.
Koko was great (thanks again Leanne). I ate seaweed, sushimi, prawns (Aimee's as well), squid, rice, salad, fish, chicken, steak and icecream. I felt like I was going to explode! Put in the official notice at work too this week so i'll be all done on the 11th of March. Hopefully that should leave enough time for me to sort things out here before the big move!

Heatwave!

Hi sorry we haven't been in touch its been busy and hot over here! We went to the Australian open tennis thursday the 22nd of January. It was good we saw Nadal play so I was happy and we also saw a couple of the Aussie players. The mens final is on as I type, Nadal is playing Federer. We've also been having a bit of a heatwave this week. Monday wasn't too bad only in the 30's but Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday were all in the 40's, Friday being the hottest day on record reaching 45! We don't have any air conditioning so I can tell you we really felt it! We are so glad it dropped yesterday to 25 and today was only 32. Now the big news we've booked our return tickets to Ireland! So we'll be leaving Australia on the 1st of April arriving in Dublin on the 2nd! I can't wait to see everyone!

Aprils Fools day. It's no joke though. Monday just gone was Australia day and even though Aimee and I both worked all day, we still had a small BBQ with my brother Jason. Hope you all had a lamb chop wherever you were. Tennis has been on the TV all week which makes it easier to sit up late in the sweltering heat. Its been in the high 30's all through the nights even. Yesterday we paid a visit to Seamus, Jocelyn and Niamh and had a BBQ lunch (no shortages of BBQs in summer here).