October 2024

 October has been a pretty quiet month for us, a bit of rugby and lots of packing

On the 2nd of October, Kris went in for shoulder surgery to try to help reduce the pain and increase the movement in her shoulder from a previous work injury. Originally we were told she would be able to continue as normal within a day or two, but afterwards we were told that she needed to take it easy for a month or two.

That weekend, Cameron played his first International game, with MRC taking on the Danish National Team. Kris and I watched the live stream and the boys took the win 32-10 - a very impressive result for one town's team against the national team.

On the 12th, the boys played a rugby tournament in Frederiksberg. Kris had just had her shoulder surgery so she wasn't able to attend, but I caught the train across to Denmark with the boys.

The boys both played two games against combined Danish teams:

P16s (Tomas):
MRC vs FRK, Gentofte, Aarhus, Dragor (Loss 10-12)
MRC vs Speed, CSR, Hundested (Win 24-0)

P18s (Cameron):
MRC vs Denmark West (Win 52-5)
MRC vs Denmark East (Win 59-12)

We also had a quick visit to Migrationsverket to get our new residency cards and then started packing our freight back to Australia.

We have three ways to take things back - by sea freight, air freight or luggage.

For sea freight we get 6 cubic meters plus whatever we didn't use on the way over (a total of 9 cubic meters). Air freight is 1 cubic meter, and luggage is 25kg per person.

We had a company come and assess what we had for sea freight and they estimated that we had about 15 cubic meters, however it was a pretty rough estimate. Kristine took this as a challenge and packed down everything as small as she could. In the end we have managed to compact everything down into what seems to be 9 cubic meters. In doing so, we have lost most of our lounge room, but everything is due to be picked up 6th November, so it will make things easier then.

We opted to have the sea freight sent early so we dont have too long a wait for it in Australia. While air freight generally takes 2 weeks or so, sea freight can take up to 3 months so we wanted to make sure we got it as close to when we arrive in Australia as possible.