This IS the adventure....

When we started telling people about our move to Australia, the word ADVENTURE usually popped up.  "What an ADVENTURE", "Make the most of your ADVENTURE", and so on.  Because I have never been out of the United States let alone lived outside of the United States, the idea of Australia was an adventure.  However when I hear that word, I conjure up images of grandeur, thrill, and excitement...you know BIG things.  So when I decided to write a blog to chronicle our ADVENTURES, I thought I could only write about our travels or eating weird foods or seeing HUGE spiders.  And for a while everyday was so new that things were easy to write about, I always had ideas.  But as we settle into life, I was getting worried that our ADVENTURES were being few and far between.  The ideas of what to write were not coming nearly as easy.

....and I then came to the realization that LIFE IS OUR ADVENTURE!  So while we may not be petting Kangeroos or traveling across the ocean or catching gross 8 legged crawly things, our days are adventurous.  So now I feel like I can write about our daily lives and what that means here in Perth.

So this week was busy....

Monday is swim for Addie, so right after school we eat a snack, get dressed and head to the pool.  Lucky for me, two of her friends from school swim at the same time, so I have moms to chat with =)  Addie is doing really well with swim, and does not let the COLD water deter her at all.  We bought her a wetsuit so that helps keep her warm.  She has done really well and is learning a lot.

ALSO on Monday, I went shopping for Dustin's birthday present.  Now this was an adventure because I drove on their freeways for the first time.  I only got lost once and had to one illegal U-turn to get to my destination, but it was worth it.  The navigation on my phone crapped out halfway through the trip, so I had to rely on good old sense of direction....clearly this was when I got lost ;)

Tuesday is swim for Morgan, but because we had to get ready for Dustin's birthday and she was starting to not feel well, we skipped it and went shopping for a homemade cookie cake.  I googled how to make a Great American Cookie cake, but that requires Caro syrup....they do not have that here, nor do they have Great American Cookie Company.  I settled for making a chocolate chip bar cake.  I was lucky enough to find decorative frosting, but the store was out of chocolate chips, so I had to use chocolate buttons....they melt much easier, so the cake was a bit different on consistency.

Also on Tuesday Morgan and Dustin went to the Father / Daughter breakfast for school.  It was at a local restaurant. Dustin said they sat with some really nice dads and that Morgan had a great time.  She seems to be right in the thick of it with friends and being a normal silly 8 year old girl =)

Wednesday was a big day for Morgan and I.  We went to the zoo.  It really was so much fun to see her with her friends.   That silly Morgan that we are used to has finally arrived in Perth.  She was able to be herself and her friends really like her for it.  I was in charge of 8 girls as we walked around and took notes on the Bushland.  Their assignment was to take notes on the habitat's characteristics and make connections with how the habitat suited the animals that lived within it.  They will then create an animal of their own that could survive in the Bushlands.  Pretty impressive what these 8 year olds could do!!!

Many of the girls wanted to see what words we used in American versus their words here in Oz.  The word they are the most enthralled with is "ya'll".  To funny. One little girl asked "Now is that short for you all?"  She then tried to speak American like me...she tried to imitate my "accent".  We had lunch on the lawn and the girls played for a bit.  After walking the zoo for almost 4 hours, I was EXHAUSTED when we got home.  Morgan was too, and actually wound up getting sick =(

Thursday she stayed home and we make a cookie cake for Dusty's birthday.  The one we bought ingredients for on Tuesday ;)

Thursday night we celebrated his birthday because I did not have anywhere to hide the cake....so out of necessity he got his presents early!  The girls also made him a poster for his special day.....

On Friday, Dusty had the day off.  We got his haircut, and then just hung out while the girls were in school.  We went exploring at a new mall for us.  Still unsure of the brands over here and what is our style.  In time....all in time.  

Morgan went to school because she had music camp to get ready for her Winter Concert on Wednesday.  She is in the Petit Chorale and loving it.  When I picked her up at 6 that night though, she was wiped out and had a fever =( Poor thing.   Needless to say she did not do Netball on Saturday.  

Today we are just being lazy and resting!  

Whew, we had a busy week.  I really am going to try and write every Friday about our week, unless something blog worthy pops up earlier in the week =)  

Hope everyone is doing well.  Missing you all like crazy.

All our love and hugs!!!!