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Surfboards vs rental houses

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We have now been here almost a week and thank heavens the jetlag is subsiding.  Luka is sleeping the best in her entire 10 months on earth, Gerhard and I no longer want to kill each other, for a couple of weeks it was rather hectic and we all seem to be settling in nicely.

We had an amazing weekend, we went to the beach and had loads of fun. It is bad for the diet though as these people make amazing battered calamari and chips...

Liam thinks that living close to the beach is the best thing ever, he recons it is like a giant swimming pool. He also told me that we need to move our butts and buy those surfboards now.  The kid has no idea about priorities, getting a place to stay and a car is number one on the list this week.

We are still amazed at how friendly and helpful everyone is around here. I opened a bank account yesterday and oh my.  I have never had such a good customer experience in my life. Private banking in SA can learn a thing or two here.  

Today we are hopefully buying a car, we are pretty tired of our little rental, and then surfboards :)

We also decided to try and put Liam and Luka in daycare a couple of days a week, just to have some time to do things, these poor kids have been so good despite being hauled absolutely everywhere, like the bank, medicare etc. 

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