This evening's moon was amazing coming up over the ocean - we walked the sea walk to Bronte for dinner after the rugby game and it's hard to think of a more beautiful moonrise, it looked absolutely huge.
Tess and Kate have 10 days of school left - hard to believe! Then our moms and Karen's stepfather will be here and we'll have 2 weeks of travel prior to returning home in mid June. It's gone incredibly fast - the days are getting very short here now and the leaves are falling off the trees - like most Australians, the leaves are pretty laid back - no blaze of color, just a little brown and fall down... It's been less rainy recently, so we also hit the observatory to look at the sun through their solar telescope, and saw sunspots and solar flares - we'll try to get back at night one of these nights for the nighttime views - at least we know how to pick out the Southern Cross now, which may be helpful one of these days trying to get home on the Sydney roads...
Daddy's still taking surf lessons - every time he gets a little better they put him on a smaller board and he falls a lot again... but it's still fun! Tess and Kate got to check out Dad's work car the other day - they were pretty impressed with the AW139 - it's a machine - more power and lighter weight than a military Blackhawk! They took the train to meet me after a shift in Wollongong, a surf community about 90 minutes south of Sydney where we have another base. We drove down the coast to Jervis Bay and took a cruise to see the dolphins (humpback whales should be coming up anytime now, starting in later May) and stayed on a farmstay for the night. One of the highlights was a vanilla custard neopolitan at the Huskisson bakery which required a stop both days!
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