decision made for now...

We are going to put in an application for a house in City Beach. It's 12 km away from CBD (central business district, jamie's work) so it should be a good cycle. The bus stop and primary school are right around the corner. Big house with double garage with storage and a carport. You live upstairs and from the balconies you can see the ocean and Rottnest Island! It's breezy, which is chilly now but welcome in the summer. 4 bedrooms and a study, dining area etc, 2 bathrooms, and a small lawn area and a vegetable patch! Big drawback is the lack of "life" around the house. It's a residential area (with very, very posh houses around) and so we would always have to drive to shops/restaurants etc. Guess Perth is more of a city you have to drive than Aberdeen.

Also enrolled Willem in a Kindergarten at Wembley Downs Primary, a suburb north of City Beach. He will start on Monday and Wednesday, 2 full days. His teacher is called Mrs White and she seems lovely. The whole school was friendly, open with great activities for the children. Haven't enrolled Frank for Kindergarten and Willem for Pre-primary yet as they advised me to wait until we have a house (even though the closing date was today). City Beach Primary is full (has waiting lists) so maybe they both will have to attend Wembley Downs anyway but it seems a great wee school.

Putting in an application doesn't mean you will get the house. We also offered less than they asked (as it is above our budget, but the present tenants pay less so we might as well try as well..)
Unfortunately there are no photos of the house on the website yet, otherwise I could send you a link.

So nearly the weekend. Tonight there are drinks at the Dutch Club Neerlandica. Tomorrow we will go to my friend Tamar who just had a baby girl called Esther and on Sunday we are going for an early dinner at Gareth and Sue's. So all good (apart from the rain this afternoon.. luckily it was sunny this morning and we had a run round in Kings Park again. the boys really like this playground with dinosaur footprints and sculptures you can climb)