Well, what can I say. No wonder so many people buy a house when they leave their family home and just live in that house till they die…. Yes, you guess right; I'm not to keen on moving house. And for us it means moving not only from one house to another, but changing countries as well! Of all the moves I had so far, this one was the worst.

• We were packed up between Christmas and New Year's (not a "holiday spirit" in sight).
• Our stuff didn't fit in the container (see picture) and we therefore had to leave things behind.
• It rained the day they were loading the container and Ramadan just started which didn't improve the temper of the packers.
• Our airfreight was too heavy, and arrived late (after 2 weeks in stead of 2 days) and wet (and therefore damaged).
• The kids did not really cooperate with any part of the moving-process.
• Trying to sell your cars etc. while there is an economical crisis going on in the country doesn't benefit your bank account.
• It is almost impossible to take cats from Malaysia to Australia (but that's a horror story by itself).
• And the list goes on and on. But I don't want to discourage you too much.

But, Perth is beautiful! We found a house quite fast. It's very nice and in a nice neighborhood.

And then our container arrived…..(it arrived on our wedding day (Valentines Day) and didn't really add to the festivities which were already near non-existent).

Boxes everywhere. It took me a week to get at least the family room and the children's' bedroom box-free. It's amazing how some things were packed! And the (not so pleasant) surprise I got when I unpacked the diaper-bin… They left the dirty nappies in it!!! Needless to say I wasn't too thrilled. And this was just one of those surprises.

And now (20th May) I'm still unpacking. Almost there though, just about 5 more boxes (out of 300 that is a very small percentage! and yesterday our cupboards from Ikea, which we were still waiting for finally arrived...).

So…. Maybe I'm almost done!
With my luck though.... Jan will probably decide pretty soon that he wants to work somewhere else.....

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