This month has been rather eventful for us. We packed up all of our not-that-many-luckily-for-us things and moved out to a little town just outside the bigger-but-still-little town of Lithgow. We love the city and miss seeing our city-dwelling friends as much, but there are also really great things about living here. In Sydney we lived on a pretty busy road. On most nights we'd at least once hear screeching tires and cringe expectantly as we waited for the potential crunch of plastic and twisting of metal. Out here there aren't really any busy roads. We went for a walk down the road the other day and saw this:

Oh deer. Another great thing about living out here is it feels like there are a bajillion hikes and lookouts and outdoorsy things to do. This is part of the view from Hassan's Walls lookout, just outside Lithgow:

And below is the view of the Capertee Valley - the second largest canyon in the world - from Pearson's Lookout. The mesa-type formation in the middle-right of the picture is called Pantoney's Crown, and apparently you can climb it.

There's also a really nice bunch of garden beds that Bri's looking forward to working on, we've joined a gym where one of the staff who's sort of like our personal trainer was one of the lead roles in the Lithgow theatre company production of Evita that we went to on Fri night, and the ward that we're in now (Leura) has a bunch of really great members. So we're feeling pretty grateful for the opportunity to live here. Life's great.