Floods floods & more floods...

I thought I should put a few photos up for you all so you can get an idea of what's been going on around town. It's craziness around the city & suburbs!! Highways/freeways/roads shut b/c they're flooded, it's like I'm in a boat sometimes driving through some of the big, deep puddles. I don't think their roads are built for this much rain, no ditches on the side and their soil is so hard from being dry for so long that it doesn't seem to take in much moisture, so it all just overflows onto the roads. Plus there are a huge amount of houses flooded and sitting in water. I definitely wasn't prepared to see this much rain when I came over here! I just can't believe the damage it's doing. And people getting stuck in their homes or washed away holding onto dear life to a tree. Dan read yesterday in the paper that two guys up North drank so much and passed out that when they woke up they had slept through cyclone Yasi and woke up with no roof on their house!! There's a picture of them sitting on their couch passed out with no roof on the front page of the paper, haha, funny but sad at the same time. Here's a few local photos:

A local nursery at the bottom of the hill.

One of the puddles I drove through on the way home from work today, this was beside my car as I went through, glad the seals in our car work! And it wasn't the only one that I went through.

The Freeway, obviously closed off now.

On another not, my floristry course that I was supposed to start this Monday got cancelled on me. :( I'm really disappointed about it! Not enough people had enrolled in the course and the next one isn't until April. Lame! So I just asked to get refunded and maybe I'll do it later on this year, we'll see, I still really want to try it out though. Wasn't meant to be this time I suppose.

Another couple of months and bills should be fully paid off which means we'll be getting our own place! Yippee! :D I cannot WAIT to have our own space and to have all of our belongings in one spot instead of three! I'm so excited for that! Dan too. Moving to another country has not been cheap! But it'll all pay off in the end :)

Off to the vet on Monday to get Tonka's eye checked out, getting a second opinion before we spend a bunch of money on an eye specialist. Let's hope it's healing now and we won't have to do that! It wasn't last time we were at the vet & he said he couldn't do anything else and that Tonka needed to go to see an eye specialist. whoop whoop. So we're off to get a second opinion first.

Had a fun Aussie day last week. Went down to the Mornington Peninsula and took in the local events/parade, had a nice lunch out, it was a very relaxing and nice day out. Tonz of Aussie pride out there that's for sure and some fantastic outfits out there made out of their national flag of course. Fun times.

Not too much else going on other than family events & just exploring around the areas, checking them out, getting to know them etc etc. It's so much fun exploring and learning all of these new things, finding these new and exciting places. Really enjoying it! And they're all so close around here. It's great! There's a lot of things that I/we want to do over the next couple of years, so you could say that we're going to be busy, but in a good way :) That's it for this time around...chow for now.