Moving House

We've been toying with the idea of moving house on and off for years. The time has now come! The house has been on the market for a couple of weeks now and yesterday we had our first serious offer. Still a little too low, right at the bottom end of the expected price range. Being only our first weekend of open homes, and considering 26 parties looked through our home in two half our sessions, we feel it would be a bit hasty to jump at the first low offer. We're still well within the "top of the price range" period just yet.

Anyway, the plan is to sell first, maybe rent for awhile with the longer term goal being to find a newer place, in an area like Torquay, hoepfully in walking distance to the beach but definetly within a short walk to a park of sports ground - for the kids who have now certainly outgrown our modest back yard (too modest to contain footballs and cricket balls at least).

We'll also consider building a place of coarse. Torquay has plenty of land available and right now, it's a buyer's market down there. Here's hoping our timing is good with talk of recessions ending in coming months.

It's here if anyone is interested...

Back to reality

Back from the much anticipated Queenland holiday and as always, desperately trying to find a way to bring that "holiday mood" back with me to everyday life.

There's something about having a daily grind to stick to, that kills off any feeling on "holiday freedom" though - I think the two moods are, by necessity, mutually exclusive.

Anyway, we just spent a week lounging by the "lagoon pool" at the

Paradise Resort in Surfer's Paradise, which was aweome and kept the kids thoroughly entertained. I can highly recommend this place, if you have kids between the ages of about 4 and 9. The activities were appropriate and plentiful. Any older and they may get a little board after a couple of days. The games room though was chocked full of video and pinball machines, including a retor style arcade game where $1 gave you three gaames, with choices which included Frogger and Galaga! Awesome! Take plenty of money because there aren't alot of options for food. The resort has a nice cafe for eating light meals by the pool and the smorgasboard breakfast/dinner is always an option although after a couple of visits, it a bit repetitive.

Naturally we did all the other touristy type things like the obligitory "Movie" and "Sea" World.

A holiday to remember for sure.