The Tooth Fairy Cometh

Yesterday was a big day for our six year old neighbor, Thomas.  He lost his first baby tooth.  He first noticed that it was "wobbly" a few weeks ago and I have been pestering him about it since.  Every time I've seen him I've asked to take a look.  He's been kind of funny about it and I think he doesn't really know how to feel.  We tried to tell him it's a big step towards growing up and I think he liked that.  He was going to leave it in a glass of water for the Tooth Fairy to collect.  I hope he scored.

We had a nice relaxing weekend.  Melissa offered her car to us on Saturday and we took advantage by driving to the Scuba shop and then to Ikea.  The scuba shop we went to was pretty awesome and we got ourselves masks snorkels and fins plus a few sundries.  Leah got a "mask tamer" a neoprene sheath for her mask strap so she doesn't get her hair caught in it.  Every time we've dived her friz-pop has gotten hopelessly tangled to the point of frustration.  It's caused her to have more than one case of annoying leaky mask.  We are pretty happy with the purchases and can't wait to get in the ocean to test them out.  It will probably be a couple of weeks until we do though; we have a busy weekend in Brisbane planned this week.

After a couple of hours at the scuba shop, we went to ikea.  We bought a new printer last week and needed something to perch it on.  We got a cheap bookshelf that works perfectly and also gives her some space to stash her school books.  The School books were starting to take over all the other available shelf space.  As with any trip to Ikea we saw thousands of thingos that we could use but tried to limit ourselves to essentials.  I think we did fairly well, but combined with the gear from earlier it made for an expensive afternoon.

It continues to rain here, though it's more cloudy than rainy.  The sun hasn't been out much at all lately and when it does peek out it just makes it hot and steamy. The humidity is out of control and nothing seems to dry without some help.  The weather forecast for the week looks pretty grim but the upside is the dams (reservoirs) are almost at full capacity and that hasn't happened here in years.

We have definitely decided to up our internet plan.  We can get more than twice the dowload quota for an extra $20 a month and save ourselves the annoyance of super slow internet for more than a week every month.  Besides we need to watch some US television and that uses a lot of data.  Also it's easy to get carried away with Skype and a three hour conversation can burn right through ones allowance.

One note for anyone who is thinking of coming to Australia, to visit us or otherwise, today the prices of flights from Denver are the lowest they have been since we arrived.  Just a little FYI y'all.

Again, as with a few other major events in the US, the Oscars were on here on a Monday morning.  It's just not the same seeing the Best Picture awarded while walking through the break room on the way to take a whiz.  We're not in Kansas anymore.