Howdy from Brissy

Hi all,
Just a quick intro to say hello to everyone. As most of you know, I came over in September for a few weeks on my own; the only company being the in-laws, Mark, Caz, Jesse and Joey. The other stable in my life was Ruth at the McCafe. Every morning on the way to work I'd drop in to hear the lovely lilting tones of Ruth take my order "flat whyyte take a waaaaaaayyyyyyy? that'll be three noiynty foiyyyyyyyve luv". What a way to start the day.
In the next 4 weeks I travelled Brisbane return 3 times and saw Indiana Jones - Crystal Skull 3 times, and Forbidden Kingdom 2 times. Thank you Lord for my mp3 player!
Perth airport was the worst experience of the whole move but don't get me started. Uncle Jeff got started, and was giving the supervisor with the walky-talky messages to pass on to Geoff Dixon CEO of Qantas. Very precise messages.
If you haven't heard, we're renting a flipping awesome house, overlooking Moreton Bay and Stradbroke Island!! You'll have to come and stay with us, we've got a whole seperate guest room and lounge for you. I'll put photo's on the blog when I get a chance. Lochie and Isaac have settled into Ormiston State School really well, Isaac announcing he'd made 21 friends on the first day!Just this Sunday gone we think we've found the church we'd love to make home - Birkdale Baptist. I walked in and was greeted by an older guy in shorts and thongs "G'day mate, grab a seat anywhere you want". Next thing I saw was the band. A young guy in t-shirt and shorts holding a Gibson SG, a long lanky bass player, another guy on acoustic guitar, a chick on drums and the leader behind her trusty Roland. The church loved to worship which was great, and they announced that most of the blokes were off on a "4WD ministry weekend". Sermon was great with more scriptures than you could catch in a water tank. Looking forward to going back.
Negatives of Brisbane - the 4.30am chorus of the flaming crows, parrots and 10 types of other sub-tropical birds! I'm going to have to bring out the spud gun!

Nature's great.