It's now been two weeks since we arrived in the Pilbara. What an awesome two weeks it has been.
This week the kids started at school and we have started bing able to get out and about a bit more.
Today was an especially good day so I thought I would share a nice story of the great people you will find in country towns.
Kaitlyn started school on Tuesday and by Wednesday had her first invite to a birthday party. Her new friends mum came up and introduced herself, explaining that her daughter was having a party and being new to the town it would be great for us to come along.
I introduced my son to this lovely lady and we had a giggle about poor Bradley's school pants which are so loose they fall past his hips and I had pinned them tighter for the day. My sewing kit was still MIA since moving house. She offered to sew up his pants and I declined saying I would find my kit and give them a couple stitches.
Today after dropping both big kids at school hubby and I did a massive food shop. We had heard that the Coles in this town was small and often didn't have stock in. Well so far the only thing I haven't found there was strawberries today, and that's only because strawberries are on special!!
Afterwards Isla and I went out by ourselves. We went to our first play group. It was such a nice time to get out, meet new people and socialise.
It was a small group of about 6 mums with bubs.
One of the nice things about being in a town like this is everyone is in the same boat. Everyone is 'away from home' some coming from the other side of the country, others from Perth and all around the state. Most of us don't have family around and our husbands all work in the mines, doing different rosters-but still coming home every night.
I find it funny that most conversations go
"Hi my name is..."
"What company does your hubby work for?"
"What roster is he on?"
"How long have you been in town"
I feel like everyone's in the same situation and it's nice to have lots of similar people and family's around.
After a morning at play group it was time to pick the kids up from school (this whole 8am-2pm thing is really messing with my body clock!!!)
We ran into Georgie-Kaitlyns friends mum, and we had a chat. Bradley was still wearing the pin in his school shorts because I still hadn't found my sewing kit.
"Come on over and I'll sew them on the machine for you right now" Georgie invited us over.
Well I wasn't really in a position to say no, poor Bradley looked ridiculous.
So over we went where we spent a wonderful afternoon socialising and making friends.
Kaitlyn and Bradley got along really well with Indi and hubby and I chatted along easily with Georgie. She filled us in on lots of things about the town, we got to ask lots of questions. And we spent a really nice 3 and a half hours out of the house enjoying ourselves.
Because we are new to town and there is so much to learn about town and the surrounding area we have tonnes of questions.
We learnt which part of Karijini National Park we should go to first, as newbie 4wd owners and with young kids some areas are a bit harder to access than others. I learnt what 'area w' is. Everyone keeps asking if I live in area w and I feel stupid when I can't answer them properly. Wa learnt about snakes and storms.
We also learnt about the funky way this town has numbered it's houses.
We live in number 387-but there are only like 10 houses on our street. Apparently the houses are numbered in the order they were built.
So house 387 is the only 387 in town and it means it was the three hundred and eighty seventh house built in this town. It's kinda cool. It also makes it super easy to tell where people live. If they say they live in a three hundred and something I know it's near us. If they live in the one hundreds I know they live closer to the shops.
We also learnt which roads are the best to take, which gravel tracks sucks and what time of the year the access roads are good to use.
We have lived in country towns before but this town is by far a whole lot friendlier than the last town we were in....not to say the last town was bad. It's just people here are way more welcoming and outgoing and it's nice to have so many people in similar situations.
There are also tonnes of people in this town that own a Thermomix so it's good to swap stories and recipes :-). :-)
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