Jobs, Spiders, Anticipation

We apologise that we haven't been writing in our blog as often as we'd like to, but we probably won’t be getting internet at our apartment. Most likely posts will be made from UTS (Tia's school) which she is only at 2 days a week. In any case, we'll try to be more on the ball.

The last week and a half have been pretty good. The weather is still fantastic and we have developed an increasing level of comfort in our apartment and in Manly more generally. Last weekend we spent a lot of time lounging around, but we did manage to write a lot of post cards.

Tia got a casual job at a local fruit market. She has training this coming Friday and we assume that she'll be doing cashier work. Hopefully we'll get a discount on avocados.

Jeff has two interviews today near Darling Harbour: one for a telemarketing place which sounds pretty good and another for a street marketing position. In either case we will soon have a little more disposable income which means SURFBOARDS! (finally).

We have a bunch of new pictures however you'll have to make do with the following


Here's a picture of those awful jellyfish that Jeff keeps getting stung by. The last time his wrist got quite swollen. We're thinking that he's mildly allergic to them.


This is an orb spider. They're pretty big compared to the usual spiders we have in Canada. We're told that they aren’t poisonous, but they're pretty intimidating and you see them all over the place. There's a bunch in the bushes across from our apartment.

No crocodiles or terrible lizards sighted yet.

Hopefully we haven't been missing too much in Canada. We could both go for some Harvey's veggie burgers and a romp with Ohia, but other than that we're holding out well. With the new jobs our blog will hopefully gain some more interesting material including :
new surfboards/surfing pictures,
Taronga Zoo,
Ocean World/water-slides,
New Zealand,
and other great adventures.

We hope that you are all doing wonderfully. Things are going quite well for us. Thank you for all of your e-mails and well wishes.
Take it easy,
-Tia and Jeff