Thursday, February 26, 2009
Our last full day at the Colonial Court Motel in Tauranga. It's been a good home for the last month, and we've been treated like family, but the cramped quarters, tiny fridge, and lack of an oven, dishwasher, and clothes dryer make Sherry eager to move to our new place in Mount Maunganui. We picked up our new car yesterday, and bought Sherry a (used) mountain bike today. The bike's got a little rust on it, but the tires and brakes are in good shape, and it was only NZ$100. We put in an order for a trailer attachment for Ro so Sherry can take him to school on the bike. The primary school he'll be attending is only a block from the beach, so she'll take the easy ride along the boardwalk to get there. While he was in Kindy today, she went for a jog around The Mount...it'll be nice when we live just a few blocks away from it.
Our new-to-us 2002 Camry. Only 44k kms!
Mark resorted to showing Ronan the video game Morrowind on his computer yesterday as a distraction (so Sherry could have some peace) and he was immediately hooked despite not understanding most of it. Sherry's not too enthused about the medieval-style violence in the game, but game-playing privileges have rapidly risen to the top of the bargaining-chip list when it comes to persuading Ronan. Even though the weather was gorgeous today, Ro and Luke were enraptured with fighting rats and slaughterfish on the laptop, and we had to pry them off to go play outside...lol.
For the unfamiliar: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morrowind
Luke & Ro bouncing a reclining Aidan on the trampoline
Fast friends: Ro (4), Luke (5), and Aidan (8)The title of today's blog refers to Mark's brother, who's currently in Kazakhstan with his wife and son as they adopt a daughter. Their blog is at: http://findingourdaughter.blogspot.com/
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