Our Sept School Holidays

We're just at the tail-end of our 2 weeks of Sept school holidays, which were very needed after an extremely busy 3rd term. We were both SO ready for some time off, and have spent the past couple weeks sleeping a lot, and also getting heaps of things done. I just looked at my to-do list yesterday and counted over 30 things I've accomplished over the past 2 weeks. I love ticking things off lists!

The first weekend of the holidays we drove down to the Sunshine Coast, which is where we'll be moving in a few months. We couldn't be more excited, as this has always been our "dream location" in Australia! To give you an idea, the Sunny Coast is about 100km north of Brisbane, and about 700km south of Rockhampton, so it took us most of the day to drive down.

The first night on the Sunny Coast we stayed in the prestigious "Palms Motor Inn," which would have been more accurately named the "Runway Motor Inn" as we soon discovered we were directly under the flight path for planes taking off from the small regional airport nearby. They were seriously about 20 feet overhead... slightly loud! Here are a few pics of our fancy accommodations :)

When we woke up on Mon morning we were in a rush to get to my interview at Coolum, and Andrew was preparing my breakfast... oatmeal and strawberries. He served me strawberries that looked like this:

... the tops were all bitten off. When I asked him what was up with that, he said there was no knife, so he had to bite off the green parts. I had to laugh... especially since there was a knife right under the sink!

This pic is of Andrew holding up our lunch which we purchased at IGA (behind him) on the drive down the coast. We tend to do things like lunch pretty simply and just get back on the road.

After the Runway Motor Inn, we spent the rest of the week at our friend Line's house on the Sunny Coast. Here's Andrew watching her kids, Max and Isobel, play computer games. They are great kids and we had a good time hanging out with them.


We also got to spend some time on the beach, and exploring the neighborhoods where we hope to be renting next year. We now have a much better feel for what we're looking for.

The beaches down there are SO beautiful! Fine white sand, blue waters, etc!

To give you a bit more information on what the deal is for next year, Andrew just got a job at a private school called Suncoast Christian College... you can check it out at http://www.suncoastcc.qld.edu.au/ He'll be starting in Jan and teaching Sr Math and Science.

I'm still looking for work in the area, and had an interview at Coolum Beach Christian College a couple weeks ago (that's why we drove down). It went well, but they don't have any positions available (it's a super small school). I asked them to keep me in mind in case anything opens up, which they said they'd do. If I really can't find a teaching position, I can always sub for a while. I'm really not too worried about it at this point.



One more pic that I recently came across: while I was in Canada at Em and Brendan's wedding in April, Andrew went camping to the beach with his friend Dave, and here was his message in the sand to the newlyweds:

More blogging to come in a couple weeks :)

~Corinna