Sweet Serendipity

Oh my goodness. I don't even know where to begin. I feel like so much has happened since I last blogged. Its been a crazy week.

SO last week we were still waiting to hear from our agent when our official move in date would be. We needed to leave our temporary apartment on Thursday. So we were a little stressed because they took so long to get back to us and when they finally did on Wednesday they had some horrible news for us...they said that there was another application and that they hadn't talked to the landlord yet about who would get the place for sure...

WHAT?! I was pretty upset because in their email they had been pretty clear that they were offering the place to US. It is kind of a long process to get into a place here so I was just crying to Todd telling him to make it right and make them give us the place. Ya, I was pretty emotional... I had spent so much time looking at and researching places online and we had felt so good about and I just couldn't imagine what we were going to do if we didn't have anywhere to stay. So of course we prayed about it and just waited to hear back from them. Thankfully it ended up we still got the place which was a huge sigh of relief but we wouldn't be able to move in until Saturday so we booked two nights staying at the temple accommodation. Yes, the church has a hotel in Sydney! Pretty cool. 50 bucks a night (that is VERY inexpensive here) and we needed to attend a few sessions while we were there.

On Thursday Mireya helped us move most of our stuff to the hotel but we couldn't all fit in the car so Todd had to come back and get me and Jett so we could go together. We said goodbye to some dear neighbors that have been so sweet to us ever since we moved in. We will miss Lindie, Tony, and Joy a lot! And they are sure going to miss Jett.

Me, Lindie, and Jett

So we all set out to get to the hotel and there was a lot of walking involved. Todd and I took turns going to the temple and watching Jett while we were there and Mireya invited us over to her place for an amazing lunch on Friday. Bright and early Saturday morning we had to catch a couple buses in order to meet with the agent to sign our lease.We had to get up and get everything ready to go and the room cleaned so we were cutting it close on time. We ended up running most the way to the bus stop (like a half mile away) while it poured rain on us. When we got on the bus nobody moved or gave us any room to sit down which was a little annoying so we had to make room for ourselves! The bus driver took off and that sent Todd flying...ahhh it was crazy and everyone was just staring us down. Todd and I just had to laugh about it.


When we got off the first bus I noticed Jett was really stinky and we needed somewhere to change him. Out of nowhere on the sidewalk there appeared this awesome porta potty type of thing but it was huge and nicer and it had a change table. We were both stunned at how perfect it was. So we got his diaper changed, Todd bought some more bus tickets and we barely made our bus. We even got off at the exact stop we needed to and we were able to sign the lease and get the keys. Oh and say goodbye to all of our savings! Did I mention how stinkin expensive it is to live here?

We then had some friends from the ward help us move our stuff from the hotel to our place. They live just down the road and they were such an awesome help. Thanks Robby and Beth if you ever read this! They are both Australian and we got a kick out of hearing them imitate American accents. It was so exciting to pull into our apartment complex because it was my first time ever seeing the place. It is full of natural light and such a cute little place. And of course the view is awesome!

That night we had a little bit of a hard time trying to get someone to deliver a fridge to us (the apartments here don't come with fridges). We ended up paying more than we wanted but whatever we were so excited because we had a fridge. Todd even spent like an hour deep cleaning it. Well he told us to wait before we plugged it in but he had a strong accent and we thought he said a couple of hours. Well Todd and I didn't know that when you move a fridge you need to wait at least a day before you turn it on to let the gases settle or something or else you will bust it. We did wait a good 12 hours but I don't think it was long enough because it is not getting cold enough which is pretty frustrating. Who knows if it was even working before he sold it to us???! We'll have to see what happens with that one.

That night Todd and I were absolutely exhausted. We slept in an empty apartment on our air mattress with a few light blankets and used our towels for pillows. Lol...that reminds me that we still don't have pillows and we need to get some soon. It rained all weekend and it was just a little depressing for me being in an empty apartment even though I know soon it will feel like home. But today the sun was out and we got a kitchen table and chairs and we are going to get a bed for free tomorrow so things are looking up. Hopefully we can get it looking like a home in the next week or so and I can post pictures!

Jett is having fun exploring the new place.

We had a visitor on our balcony!

So I was thinking about our experiences here and I remembered a song that I had heard on the radio by Lee DeWyze right before we came to Australia. I remember listening to it and thinking how much it was about to relate to us and our adventure here. Well it does! Its called Sweet Serendipity and it totally fits with everything we are going through right now. Love it. Plus I really like Lee. He reminds me of my little brother Michael who is on his way to Brazil for his mission. Have a listen!