She Said Yes!!!

I'm very excited to say that Kat and I are engaged! I proposed to Kat right here in Sydney on Observatory Hill overlooking Sydney Harbour. I was pretty hopeful that she would say yes but that didn't stop me from being nervous. But I'm very happy that she said yes and that she likes the ring! Kat's dad, Fred, made me promise not to get married in Australia. But I definitely agree with him and we plan to have our ceremony when we get back home. We want all our friends and family to be able to come to our wedding!

We've both been incredibly excited about being engaged but everything else is going quite well here in Sydney. Kat and doing very well in school (as always) and I've started working with an environmental company doing environmental auditing. So far it's been a great job and I really enjoy opportunity to be doing work for the environment.

As some of you know, Kat and I managed to get evicted from our last house. We're still not exactly sure how it happened but I think it's easiest to just say that our house-mate was a bit strange and doesn't know how to deal with people very well. But as luck would have it we found a much nicer house with three great kiwi guys that's closer to school for Kat and closer to work for me! Plus the guys have a foosball table and there's a pond in the backyard that we've already populated with goldfish. We've yet to name them but I'm leaning towards Tim and Tam. Feel free to give suggestions.

This last weekend we were very happy to have Kristin and Mike stay with us. We all had a really great time hanging out together and it was fun to have friends from back home to see. Plus I had an excuse to show them all the great beers and meat pies that Sydney has to offer! But they left for Cairns today and should be enjoying some great sights right about now.

So Kat and I are both very happy and having a great time in Sydney. But now we have even more incentive to get back to Seattle and have a WEDDING!!!