And the answer is . . .

We headed to Thornleigh church this sabbath, just 4 minutes down the road. At the end of the service we were approached by a young lady who Scott had breifley met in Warburton, a friend of he ex-workmate Adele.
We ent to their place for lunch - and as it turned out, for tea also. Quite a hilareious family and freinds. The churhc has a bit of an orcharestra of young people who play every month so we'll ahve to whip out our digital instraments and join them some time.

On sunday we went walkies across the Sydney Harbour Bridge. It wasn't as busy as expeccted. After registering online we were given a time slot to do the crossing so I guess that evened everybody out.
We caught the train in to Milson's Point and walked over the bridge (around 5:30pm) form there. We then wondered aroundthe Rocks and Squareish Lock. All the streets had been blocked off in the area to cars. It felt a bit like Disneyland - having of no cars and plenty of people walking around with music playing in the streets. Except ther were no rides, or $100 entrance fee, and no traveling 12 hours on a plane, and no mice and . . . ok not all that similar.

It was a bit of fun. We can tell our grandkids we walked over the bridge on its 75th anniversary and they will say - "is that when cars used to drive over the bridge still?"




On the train trip home Scott made his first bid on eBay via mobile phone. The auction was ending at the time we were still on the train and he wanted to get the last bid in to try and get the best price.
We won the auction and it will be delivered via trailor on Sunday (we'll put some pickies up for you in the next post as to what it is.) Scott has already invented a 'cricket' version of the game for it. As many of you will know Scott had a constently 'improving' cricket game that could be played on a pool table.



Rachel got the job!
As of Thursday afternoon, I am officially employed again (a great feeling!) I got the job of Training Manager at MYOB OnDemand. They are the Australian distributors of the accounting software (ERP & CRM) called NetSuite. The role mainly involves providing classroom and site training to new and existing clients and updating training materials. They are in the city, opposite Wynyard station, so it will only take about 30-40 mins on the train.

I start on Wednesday, March 28, so I've still got a few days off. I'm really looking forward to it, as the role sounds just right. I might have to travel interstate a bit, so I'll try to visit if I can.

So my work journey starts again. Will be very interesting to see what happens and where I end up...

And so it seems our shift is now compleated and we have been looked after to every dotting of the i. God is great!

Keeping Time

• Church shopping at Chattswo . .er . . . Wahroonga.
• Henry Heaven!!!
• Eye spy Saturn
• Henry Jones lives up to his name
• A temp job with Scott!
• Scott wins table tennis against Rachel 21-19!

(full stories coming soon)

In the Void

We visited Fox Valley (auditorum) church this week. Certainly more contemporary. All songs we had sung at Nunawading however. 3 guitars, drums and keyboard on stage with lighting, not rocky, but very smooth in song transition.
Stayed for lunch and saw some old school friends and met some more nice people. A toasty day.

Sunday we headed out to meet with Rachel's friend Amanda.
She lives in Crow's Nest, just near "The bridge". After eating out with her and her parents, we popped down to Balls Head, where there is a great view of the city and bridge - except who was the wise guy who allowed this building to be built (see picture)! This photo is taken on Scott's phone which is ultra wide-angle, so we are a lot closer than it looks.


I think it was that night we had a real lightshow in the sky.
Lightning like I have never experienced in Victoria. Literally flashing like a camera on the red eye setting for 2 - 5 seconds plus at a time. Like having paparazzi out your bedroom window all night! very hard to sleep.

There was some thunder around too. I went to check on HJ when the loudest crack I'd ever heard seemed to go off in our backyard, or the neighbours yard. Freaked HJ right out. I was glad I was there to catch him. We spent the next hours settling him (and ourselves) and he slept in our room on the floor. He did well, not jumping up on our bed at all during the night.


These pictures are borrowed, but were taken that night. The thick single bolt is like what must have been out our place.

Rachel Started job searching and CV editing this week. We're pretty relaxed that things will all work out for her. 1.5 hrs to work was too much each way anyway.