Yesterday we were invited to afternoon tea at our landlord's sister's house. We hadn't met yet so Al invited us to come and there were some of her friends there too since she was home from Darwin for the week. We have really lucked out on the landlord front. She is so lovely. Really concerned that we are getting around ok and that we are enjoying our time. When I mentioned something about having paid the rent that day it was almost like she didn't want to talk about how there was rent being charged among friends. The other residents there were really nice too. Most with babies-in-arms. Al's brother-in-law is a teacher so that was nice for Keith and their house in one of the northern suburbs of Melbourne was lovely especially the indoor/outdoor kitchen/garden. It was a lovely afternoon.
The other big realization in chatting with Al yesterday was that there is an LCD projector at the house. This is particularly hilarious because Keith and I have been talking for days about how the screen over the patio door would be perfect for a projector. We'd even looked online just to see how much they would be for the rainy/sick days with the kids (and sickness has been around every day for the last two weeks "when will these colds end????"). It also made so much more sense since they have a fair number of movies and we figured it was a more extensive collection than someone would play on their laptop. And there was a remote in the area under the stairs and a box on top of the wine rack (something we use often) and I never thought to look at the box. Can't believe it's been hiding in plain sight this whole time. Keith set it up last night and it was fun to have Cian come down to "Jake and the Neverland Pirates" on the big screen. The timing was great because today is too rainy to go play at the park (our usual twice daily activity) so movie day inside it is!
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