SOLD!!

We sold our much loved house in Leichhardt on Saturday. It was soooo tense. We spent the morning trying to put it out of our minds by having a long bike ride with the girls around the bays. When we arrived at the auction at 2.30pm on Saturday the street was already filling up with people but we only had one registered bidder. We hid out at number 19 where our friend's and old neighours Rob and Freya live with Martin and Drew and Dave and George and waited for the auctioneer. He advised that the woman who had registered didn't know she was the only serious bidder and Julie our agent agreed to walk among the crowd chatting to people to give the illusion of there being more bidders. At the last minute a second person registered to bid so we knew we had a bidding war to come. As soon as the auctioneer started, the woman started bidding, then the bloke bid, then she bid again and then it all stopped. The auctioneer was racing ahead with all the 'going once, going twice' nonsense when our agent walked up to the woman who had the bid and said 'will you bid more and it's yours?'. She said "ok then" and that was that! It was all over in about 5 minutes. We all piled back into Rob and Freya's for the rest of the afternoon and evening celebrating with sausages and champagne, not before putting in an offer on another house. We will hear back today whether the offer has been accepted or not.

In other news, we had a great dinner on Friday night with Rob's family's oldest friends Jan and Bryan. Their son Mark is Florence's NZ Godfather. Jan is 80 and Bryan is not far off, but you wouldn't know it, they are such great fun. Here are a couple of shot of our rock star daughter and at the pool, jumping in the deep end.