Finally a place to call home. One our main objectives since we've arrived in Australia is securing a place to call home during our stay here. After some aggressive apartment hunting during our first weekend here, we fell in love with a place in a really neat area. Did a bunch of paperwork and waiting and finally our move in date has arrived.
We picked up our keys (after signing a bunch of papers) around 2pm, then hustled back to our temporary spot to grab our worldly possessions. Which turned out to be a massive workout. The elevator was out of service and our place was on the 5th floor. So we end up taking turns carrying down our 4 large suitcases and about 6 smaller bags (handluggage/bedding/groceries/laptops/etc). We grab a cab and take it to our new spot.
The place is spotless and even nicer than we remember it. Although not much time to enjoy it yet, we need to unload and then make it back to our temporary place to return the keys.
After returning the keys we head off to do our first initial grocery run. Unfortunately, as nice as our new place is, the closest grocery store is about 30min walk away. Which is fine when you're buying a loaf of bread and haven't been shuffling heavy suitcases for the past few hours. Also, its funny how the first time you do a walk to a new destination it feels way longer than it really is.
Exhausted but excited, we're finally in our new home. Ready for dinner and to start unpacking.
We ordered Pizza+Garlic Bread and begin unpacking everything. We get Australian Pizza in the spirit of new beginnings here. What is "Australian" you may ask.... Eggs, Bacon, Ham and Onions. Turns out to be quite nice!
It is now time to sleep and we can finally unpack the new purchases (from last week) - mainly bed stuff and have a nice big sleep and get ready for the next day!
- Jaime & Pri
We picked up our keys (after signing a bunch of papers) around 2pm, then hustled back to our temporary spot to grab our worldly possessions. Which turned out to be a massive workout. The elevator was out of service and our place was on the 5th floor. So we end up taking turns carrying down our 4 large suitcases and about 6 smaller bags (handluggage/bedding/groceries/laptops/etc). We grab a cab and take it to our new spot.
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| Our worldly possessions |
The place is spotless and even nicer than we remember it. Although not much time to enjoy it yet, we need to unload and then make it back to our temporary place to return the keys.
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| Pri lighting a divo - (later found a lighter in the drawer) |
After returning the keys we head off to do our first initial grocery run. Unfortunately, as nice as our new place is, the closest grocery store is about 30min walk away. Which is fine when you're buying a loaf of bread and haven't been shuffling heavy suitcases for the past few hours. Also, its funny how the first time you do a walk to a new destination it feels way longer than it really is.
Exhausted but excited, we're finally in our new home. Ready for dinner and to start unpacking.
We ordered Pizza+Garlic Bread and begin unpacking everything. We get Australian Pizza in the spirit of new beginnings here. What is "Australian" you may ask.... Eggs, Bacon, Ham and Onions. Turns out to be quite nice!
It is now time to sleep and we can finally unpack the new purchases (from last week) - mainly bed stuff and have a nice big sleep and get ready for the next day!
- Jaime & Pri
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