Another anniversary

This week, on September 6th, marked one year for both of us in our jobs with Santos.  Since we first started, JT has gone from a full team to a one-man team, and has now just started the building process with new team members.  JB has moved from working for the GLNG partnership to a different part of Santos, although still within the world of CSG.  The one thing that we have noticed is that no matter where a person lives, one creates one's own life.  We initially thought that working here would be so different from working in Canada.  It really isn't.  We have different jobs, but they are still within the energy sector, we still look at budgets and wells and do all the stuff we did in Canada.  The weekends are different but the weekdays are the same.  It's nice to have that combination of the familiar during the work week and the new/different on the weekends.  We try to hit the beach and the surrounding areas at least one weekend a month, but even exploring Brisbane is still so new to us.

Eagle St Pier from Kangaroo Point

Another, much sadder, anniversary is the 10th anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Centre in New York.  We remember clearly seeing footage, some live, on television and watching the horror unfold.  It is a different kind of feeling here, where people would have woken up the next day and heard about the attacks hours after they occured.  The timing of the attacks is 7 am in Calgary, 9 am in New York, 11pm in Brisbane.  People here would have been asleep when the rest of us in North America were glued to TV screens and computers.  It is as hard for us to explain watching the situation unfold as it is for Aussies to express the horror of waking up to the full news story on the following day.  There was no buffer time, just a full-on terrible story.

We are getting ready for a trip to Cairns and Port Douglas.  On the agenda is the Great Barrier Reef, Cape Tribulation and every tourist trap/hotspot the area has to offer.  We are looking forward to exploring and experiencing an entirely new region of Australia to us!