We have a new home!

Well, it's official.  We signed a lease and paid the deposits this morning, and we are now the proud new tenants of Unit 323 Watermark.  Both of us awoke early this morning a little unnerved as we were anticipating some kind of disaster would occur.  But all in all the lease signing appointment was pretty uneventful.  We get to pick up the keys tomorrow at 9am, and then we'll make our fourth and final move in the afternoon.  What a long road it has been!  It seems like since we're just now moving into a real apartment that our time in Townsville should just be starting, but we've been here for 7 weeks already.  It's gone by so fast.  

Here is our address:

Unit 323 Watermark

72 The Strand

Townsville, QLD 4810

Matt had a crazy night last night at work doing the clinical coordination shift, which he described in an earlier post. Apparently they had a record number of emergencies in North Queensland and he barely had time to scarf down a sandwich during the 9 hours he was there. Tomorrow he does an "administration" shift (who knows what that means), and then he goes back to doing some clinical shifts, which I think he's looking forward to.  As usual I've been busy with work myself, but I am finally feeling as though I'm catching up on all the work that has accumulated over the last couple months.  My hope is that once I'm caught up (and I anticipate I should be caught up in the next three weeks), I'll have a lot more free time to do all kinds of things I've been looking forward to - reading, exploring the city, hanging out with our mates, writing letters, cooking for Matt (he not unfairly jokes all the time about how I can't operate a stove anymore), all that good stuff. 

I don't think there's really much else to report.  On Friday we are taking a trip with some friends out to Undara Volcanic National Park, which is an area full of lava tubes created from a volcano.  In fact, it has Earth's longest lava flow (tube) from a single volcano. It's about a 5 hour drive from here, and based on what we saw on Google maps it's going to be a potentially boring drive.  After we leave the suburbs of Townsville we only pass through one town (population 450) the entire 5 hours.  Hopefully the outback scenery will be relatively entertaining.  We'll camp both Friday and Saturday nights with our friends and head back Sunday afternoon.