First Thoughts

Today we received our shipment! We've been here nearly 3 weeks and expected it to come sooner, but it had to go through customs to make sure we weren't importing any diseases. I didn't pack very well, so was very thankful to get the rest of my clothes and other shoes! It came around 10am and I worked on unpacking it then had some lunch and got on the free City Circle tram to head to Carlton, a cute neighborhood just North of downtown to exchange a pair of shoes for the right size and check out a maternity shop I hadn't been to. As I'm now 17 weeks along, my clothes (especially pants) are starting not to fit--my tummy's getting bigger! I already bought a comfy wool skirt that's stretchy and has a stretchy waistband and wore that today--so nice! I didn't find anything at the shop, but talked to the nice lady who worked there for awhile. Maybe when I'm in more of a need for tops, I'll go back. The other maternity shops I've visited have had mainly fancy work clothes (usually in black & gray) so it was nice to see some more casual stuff. It's funny, because I don't think we sound so different, at least when we say "hi", but the shop sales people are constantly double-taking when we talk and saying something like, "that's an interesting accent, where are you from?" I think it's funny because they have so many American TV shows broadcast on their channels and a ton of our songs on the radio, but usually don't know where we're from--maybe we just talk differently:)

Baby was moving around today--I've noticed it a bit usually in the morning, very subtle; kind of like a flutter very quickly, and as I had Jason put his hand on my tummy, he felt it for the first time! When we had the ultrasound 3 weeks ago, baby had hiccups, so it was fun to see how active he/she is. Janelle said usually they're asleep, so it was neat to see movement.

Jason got home from work around 4pm like usual and got to work getting the computer set up for us, so we can start skype-ing! Then we headed to a new Indian restaurant that just opened up on the bottom floor of our condo. It was very good--at first we were the only ones in the restaurant, so we had about five different people greet us, show us to our table, pour water, take our drink order and lay our napkins in our laps--very friendly! We arrived at 5:45pm and the Australians seem to eat later than we do--7pm and on, so it's not unusual for us to be the only folks in a restaurant at first--it's kind of intimidating though. We have noticed that none of the restaurants will bring your check when you're finished with your meal until you ask for it. You could be done with your dessert for 15-20 minutes and they still won't come until you call them over--so funny! I guess they assume you just want to talk & relax.

Well, that's all for now!