The Mooney's in Adelaide: Settling in

Hello
had lots of feedback on our blog. Mainly postive, i think, so we'll stick with it, probably sending an update once a week (apparently if you fill in your email address on the site i think it will mail you when we update). So we have been here now about 4 days and so far it is all really positive. Adelaide seems like a really nice place. It is a city probably similar in size to Leicester. The weather has been great which has helped. It has mainly been around 25 degrees which is nice although we had one day at about 34 degrees when we all melted. Strangely it gets quite cold at night and we have been using the air con as a heater! Most people seem to stay indoors between 12-3 to avoid the sun. Anyway we have avoided the sunburn so far. We are living in North Adelaide which is about 15 mins walk from the city centre. Its a really nice area with lots of coffee shops (tried most of these) and bars (tried none of these). We have a 2 bed apartment on the second floor which is fun when you have to carry Dylan and the stroller. It is all open plan which makes a change but everyone seems quite happy with it. I especially like the 40 inch HD plasma TV although it only seems to show rubbish (actually emma is quite happy that she can see the latest episodes of neighbours). The first few days were mainly spent sleeping and not venturing too far but we are all on aussie time now and even dylan is sleeping through which is great. The first few days with Dylan jetlagged were funny (see pic of him falling asleep whilst eating). Next door to the apartment is a little shopping centre which has a deli, supermarket, newsagent, bakery and sushi bar. Dylan had sushi yesterday and loved it! The city centre is fairly standard although different to the U.K. in that they dont have many chain stores, mainly independent ones. They do have a Woolies but that is a supermarket here. On sunday we visited the beach at Glenelg which is about 30 mins away, nice seaside place although it was very busy and a bit windy. Yesterday was my first day in work and that went really well. I have my own office and all the staff went out of there way to be friendly. It was also the first time I have had a safety induction that included a warning about getting brown snakes (2nd most venomous in Australia) in your office! The campus I am mainly based at is about 4m out of the city centre in the foothills. Its quite rural, surrounded by trees with Kaolas in them. Emma took Dylan swimming yesterday. The aquatic centre is something else. 5 different kiddy pools + slides, diving pools, olympic standard pool. We now have 12 weeks to turn him into a baby 'Thorp-edo'. It is taking some getting used to being without a car as everything is quite spreadout so we have been using the buses and trams. They are relatively frequent and you pay by the hour rather than by distance - £1 for 2 hrs - so pretty cheap. We have so far avoided the creepy crawlies although emma thinks she got biten by a spider. She is still alive so I am not sure about that one. Oh and Dylan HATES having sunscreen put on everyday. Think that is about it so far (jordache will be pleased i kept it brief). I'll end with a few bullet points (I am a lecturer after all) on some of the main differences (so far) here and home.