Back from the Tomb

Man, what the heck have we been doing? Not posting here that's for sure. The last 4 weeks have been pretty full on. Summer has started, officially today at 2:06pm, they do it here using the correct celestial time, not like us back home by the first day of the month. The days have been really warm, much warmer than normal the locals say and it has been pretty hot and humid on a number of days. Cam and Abs are well into their soccer and both had their first wins this week which is pretty cool. Cam already has about half a dozen goals to his name and Abs is one of the more attacking players on her team which is awesome, neither of them have played competitive sport before so the concept is pretty new to them. We spend our time as parents teaching the kids to play nicely with the other kids, share and take care. Now we're trying to undo some of those lessons, 'get in there and attack', 'be in front, push if you have to', 'don't worry if one of the opposition falls down, keep going'. We have taught our kids well, these lessons in competitiveness are proving difficult to teach :-).

Our rental situation is not resolved but we have irons in the fire and we're not afraid to use em. An update and likely resolution in the next week I suspect.

We have a cottage booked for the first week in July. It's a great Canadian summer thing to do, hit a cottage on a lake far north of Toronto when the weather warms up. The place is right on a nice lake with a sandy beach and shallow entry for the kids, plus some human powered boats if they get adventurous. We just have the Monday to Saturday but we're looking forward to a break and relaxing time, our first non-touring holiday since we got here (although I'm sure we'll go to Algonquin National Park while we're in the neighborhood).

The whole family is playing tennis on Friday nights down at Bronte. The kids get a clinic and then Jo and I play mixed adhoc matches from 7pm til after 9:30. Jo's also hitting the courts during the week and is actually out at the moment (it's after 11:30pm atm) hitting the green balls. It's a lot of fun and we're all improving our games, the kids are enjoying it so we might have to keep it up when we get back.

Work is very busy at the mo' and I'll be glad when the next week is done as we'll be finished all our testing and be into a slight more mellow state of mind. It looks like we'll be here for this release and the next two so home before Xmas is a possibility, March 2008 is a hard stop, definitely home before then.

So we're enjoying our summer, remember that we went from winter in Aus to winter here so if we do come back by Xmas we'll get our payback with two summers in a row, that'll be pretty good. All our girls have their birthdays this month and we haven't organised a single party yet. Last year Jo and I went all out and conjured up 3 pretty awesome gigs, this year we're busy and thinking of other things, the poor kids are wondering whether they'll get parties. I'm sure we'll get our acts together soon enough.

Anyways, enough from me, I need another G&T (off the beer and lowering the carbs, fooling myself).

Andy, out.