Are you being a silly sausage??

We heard a mom say that to her little boy on the ferry. He was making faces at us and she goes, "are you being a silly sausage? A silly little sausage??"...guess it's like our "silly goose" term. 

Big news- we have signed a lease, people! And we move in on Saturday! A "cozy"(nice word for tiny) 1 bedroom in Kirribilli. Super excited to finally unpack everything and get settled. It's a really cute part of town-- like a little village. 

Plus, this is our front yard-

And this is the neighborhood pool- 

On a completely unrelated note...crime in Australia. My dad asked me the other day about the crime rate/violence here and I wasnt completely sure so I looked into it. I have felt 100% safe ever since arriving. Most of my days I explore the city alone and I've never once felt uneasy or scared. In 2010, there were 260 murders in Australia. That's 1.2 victims per 100,000 population. In comparison, the US had 16,259 murders in 2010. 5.3 deaths per 100,000 population. Australia's low number is due in part to a huge gun ban that happened after a massacre in 1996 when a guy shot and killed 35 people in Tasmania. It banned semi-automatic and automatic rifles and shotguns. It also put in place a mandatory buyback program for newly banned weapons. 

Interesting. Vedy vedy interesting.