Handy time zone clock (and help needed)

Hi folks,
Here's a handy little time zone clock that you can add to your Favorites list (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/custom.html?cities=152,202,75,627)

Now the help needed - the reason I was on the 'time and date' site was because I was trying to figure out when a talk radio show about the Bears was being broadcast online (there's a 'converter' on the site above that lets you put in a date/time and determine the equivalent in other time zones). However, unfortunately I can't figure out if and when the actual games are broadcast on the radio/online? If someone can find a website that streams that Bears real time you will be my her0 :)

Cheers,
Sweany

ps. by the way, the footy grand final was a blow-out - it was the biggest point difference in finals history, but it was still fun to watch our the local Melbourne team Geelong, which is actually a suburb on the west side of the city, win it for the first time in 44 years. Now if only the Bears could do the same :)

I love the library, but...

Greetings everyone! As the title of today's entry states, I do love the public library and certainly appreciate being able to use the public computers for 1 hour per day, but I am happy to report that I am writing this entry from the comfort of our apartment. It is nice to be able to stay in my pajamas while the wind and rain howl outside and still get my list of "Tasks for Today" completed. I hope this finds you all very well, and still possibly chuckling from watching the Driving In Australia video clips. If you need another chuckle, here's what our 'home office' looks like right now :)

Note the sweet beanbag chair- and let's just say that Andy and I are very lucky that we love each other so much- otherwise the putting-together of that chair last Saturday could have very well put us both right over the edge. You can use your imagination in deciding which 'edge' you would like to picture us falling off

Life continues forward down here- it is weird that tomorrow morning will have us living here 5 weeks already. Footy Grand Final Fever is at the forefront of every good Aussie's mind. I even walked past a few shops this week which had signs on the door stating that they would be closing at noon on Saturday due to the Footy game. We're looking forward to seeing what this tradition holds for us tomorrow.

Andy is managing his daily commute via 1 train ride and 1 bus ride. He got it down to just under an hour by Wednesday morning. I won't write too much about how on Tuesday morning he must have been zoned out, because he ended up missing his train stop, so had to go to the next station, wait for the next train going back the way he had just come....

Tuesday was an interesting one for both of us regarding trains. I myself got stuck spending nearly 2 hours completing what should have really been a 15 minute trip. But I certainly know which station that Target store is at now!

I heard back regarding a couple of the resumes I had send out a few weeks ago, so that is encouraging.

Here's a few fun things we learned this week:

*How to operate our stove!!! And you are only going to know all about it if you come see it for yourself- in our desperation, we finally had to ask our neighbor to come over and give us a visual demonstration. I don't know if I've ever wanted to cook a frozen pizza so badly.

*Hitting kangaroos is the #1 car insurance claim in this country. Followed by hitting dogs. :(

*The possums down here have bushy tails, like the tails of raccoons in the states. Andy and I watched 2 walking down the street and then climbing some trees from our front porch on Wednesday night, but had no idea what they were. Andy thought they were cats, but I wasn't convinced. Then some of his co-workers shed some light on the subject for us on Thursday.

*Some restaurants (pubs mostly) over here require you to go to the bar to order your food, and then they give you one of those table alert devices that you usually get when waiting for a table at a restaurant, and when that goes off, you have to go down and pick your own order of food up! I think this is pretty fun, but I've got some waitress experience backing me up. I wonder if a lot of food quite possibly never makes it back to the table on one's plate.

In closing, here's a description of the pictures at the top of the page taken within the past week: one of me biking at Fawkner Park (which is at the end of our block), one of Andy relaxing on his beanbag throne on our first Sunday night at our new apartment, and a shot of downtown from Albert Park- we biked around that park on Sunday afternoon last weekend. Be well- we love and miss you all. And you know, I was not joking when I posted our home phone number and wrote that we were hoping to hear from many of you soon. :)

Cheers!

Christy

Highway to Hell- Driving In Australia #3

You have to turn the volume on your computer way up for the full effect of this one to hit ya~ This took place on our first entrance onto an Australian freeway- I believe the significance speaks for itself. He He :)

Driving In Australia #2

My favorite part of this one is when Andy runs the windshield wipers when attempting to use the turn signal. This continued as a source of amusement throughout the weekend :) Well, amusement for me, but I wasn't the one driving. Not sure if Andy found it entirely amusing.

Driving In Australia #1

As promised, a few videos of our first attempt at driving in Australia :) Enjoy~

Our 1st Invitation to an Aussie Party :)

I know this sounds kind of dorky and totally desperate, but it is with great excitement that I write that Andy and I have received our first official Invitation to an Aussie BBQ Party for the AFL (footy) Grand Final game taking place this Saturday afternoon. Ok, so I admit that the invitation came second-hand through a co-worker of Andy's, and I also admit that I had to write this co-worker back to clarify a couple of items noted in the invite about which I had no idea what to think, but I am choosing to accept my desperate and dorky side. I know that anyone reading this blog knows just how dorky I can tend to be some days/nights :)

Cheers!

Christy

Home Phone Number

Hi all. Our home phone line is all set up - the number is 03-9867-8959. My dad called me this morning, and to reach us from the US he dialed 011-61-3-9867-8959. Thanks for doing the trial dialing, dad!
We got moved into our new place over the weekend and had some fun and scary experiences with our first 'Driving on the Wrong Side of the Car & Road' car rental. I have some snippets of video to share, but am currently without internet access from home for the next couple of days still, so will post soon.
Hope this finds everyone well. We look forward to hearing from many of you soon.

Christy