The Move (into our definite house)

28.09.
Last full day in our beach house in Te Puru. A throughout sunny day, although not as hot as the two days before.
It started with a nice Skype conversation with Pablo and Annerose, friends in Brazil we haven't had contact with for years! Skype and Facebook are making the world so small, we thought.
Almost the rest of the day we spent in Thames. Specifying the details of the telephone contract, buying the school uniforms for Clara and Lucas, among other things. Surprisingly they liked their uniforms (blue Polo and skirt / trousers, with a little piece of warm yellow) and even wore them with pride. Good sign, they seem to be willing to integrate.
A nightmare-like situation was when we ordered the sandwiches at Subway – seven very individual sandwiches. We needed about 20 minutes to make clear what we wanted...
Tomorrow we're going to move into our definite house, finally!

29.09.10
Day of the move. We have left our little beach house now. Although only with suitcases, the thing took practically the whole day. What I got too is my company car, a '94 Nissan Bluebird, one of the most common cars here in NZ. Automatic transmission of course, as almost every car here besides the very small ones. In white, my favourite car colour (yes, I'm serious!). As we are talking about colours: Particularly Elena likes the colours of the house: white from outside, the interior walls being painted in a reed green (D: schilfgrün), a green with a beige touch. And the ceiling and the window frames in white. The doors party painted in white, partly of reddish wood. Nice, partly high quality interior. Fitted carpet (D: Teppichboden) everywhere (besides kitchen and one of the two bathrooms). From the wooden balcony a 180° view over the town, the seashore, the opposite coast, and behind the house the mountains. We felt really pampered by God, for He knows what we need and what we dream of before we even ask Him. The owners had totally emptied the garage and had put an oven in it; to compensate the lack of rooms in the house. They (or my employer?) had put additional beds, and all of them had brand new sheets on. The repartition of the rooms happened without conflicts: Clara shares her room with Luis, Lucas his with Daniel, and Felix is happy with his own small room.
It's still summer-like weather, only the nights are a bit chilly. From the balcony, we heard the most exotic bird songs and could watch a glorious sunset.
Unlike Hugh told me before, I now have to start work the day after tomorrow, it is now one working day earlier that my orientation week is going to start. One of his employees gave me a pound of papers today to go through them tomorrow and on the weekend. Life starts to get serious for me, too.
The kids are jumping and running about like crazy. We feel that they need to go to school again urgently!
Pictures later....