Outside of dealing with
the above, we made two other extremely important decisions that took many
evenings of deep thought, reflection, debate and discussion stretching the boundaries
of marital bliss.
Firstly, what do we name
our moose? Bullwinkle was too cliché and then there was........but no, that name
was simply unacceptable. The debate raged on, straining our relationship, until
after a fortnight of debate it was mutually agreed that Alice Alces would be his name. Yes, yes, we know our new family
member is a little bull moose with a distinctly feminine name. If he were to live in the wild near the
Eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains he,no doubt, would be teased a little by
his moose friends. But he’s going to live in a nice, warm house in Brisbane with
palm trees in the backyard so Alice won’t care. Why the name Alice? Well, the genus
and species of the North American moose is Alces alces
so........................
The second issue was determining
where to go or what to do until school starts in January, 2013. We researched options
on the internet, read travel literature, visited travel agencies and spoke with
our exchange partners but to no avail. We could not decide what to do. Our list
of potential travel destinations remained too long for an inordinate
amount of time. It was time to rely on our stomachs (our brains were terribly inefficient)
so we are off on a campervan tour of Tasmania for a few weeks.
Now.......do we own suit cases?
