December 16th

Just got an e-mail from the movers and they are scheduled to deliver our things on December 16th - just over two months from when we last saw our things in Davis. They were taken from us on Oct. 10, put on a boat and shipped out on Oct. 31, scheduled to arrive Nov. 25, rescheduled to arrive Dec. 1 and now waiting to go through customs at the Port of Brisbane.

December 16th is also the baby's due date.

We are scheduled for a tour of the hospital birthing ward for the afternoon of December 16th.

I'm guessing a few more things will happen on December 16th, such as:

• Our Internet connection at home will finally get set up
  
• My water will break just as I open the door to greet the movers (just like in the movies!)
  
• The Brisbane Public Transportation workers will strike and it will take Nate an hour and a half to walk to work (and then an hour and a half to walk back after I call him to tell him that my water broke)
• It will be the hottest/most humid day of the spring, until...
• A huge storm will hit, knocking out our electricity and flooding the roadways, making it impossible for our doula to get to us.

That seems to be the ways things are working for us here - everything all at once.

all moved in

Sorry for the delay. Last week was so busy getting everything all set up. Nate's got the camera today, so I can't upload any pictures - you'll just have to wait a bit longer to see where we will call home for the next 12 months.

Settling into our apartment is such a great feeling. Nate cooked our first real meal last night and it's so nice to feel settled someplace. Setting up the apartment with furniture and other necessities is difficult without a car. I can only carry so much by myself with my big preggo belly on the bus, so having Nate accompany me on shopping trips this weekend really helped. Most shops close around 5:30 or so, so shopping after he got home from work wasn't an option.

Our Internet at home isn't set up yet (should be a couple more weeks), so I'm still going to the State Library of Queensland to do most of my computing. Most of the people using the internet here are foreigners - the outlets are overloaded with plug adapters!

Baby Update. Just about five weeks to go. My belly's getting so big and I'm feeling quite exhausted! Baby's kicking and moving and hiccuping a lot, but "bub's head is down" (according to my midwife) and everything seems to be going smoothly. Haven't gotten much sleep since we arrived a month ago and I guess I can count on not getting any sleep for the next few months (years?) or so, right?