first two days

The Flight went well. Thats a relief. The idea of a fourteen hour flight with two young children was a bit daunting. We had melatonan tablet at the ready but in the end we didn't need them. I think we slept for 6 or 7 hours each. we went on Virgin Australia and everything was better than expected.


The weather is unusually hot here in brisbane apparently. After getting to our rental house in a distant suburb of Brisbane we started exploring the neighborhood. Right away we noticed the trees and birds were way different than we were accustomed to.

We were all in bed by 8:30 pm.

And awake by 4am.

At about 4:25 am I gave in to the idea that we werent really going to go back to sleep due to our screwed up clocks. The sky was just turning light so we decided to go for a walk. Wow, what a cochaphany of birds. There all sorts of large and small birds that we have never seen including groups of lorikeets. very exotic looking.