Saturday, September 20, 2008

Parents-in-laws are here, finally.

Last Saturday we fetched my PILs at the airport early in the morning. They were taking the A380 SQ flight from Singapore. My FIL complained about the narrow leg room, and my hubby actually complained about the same thing the last time we took the flight. I was surprised that hubby didn't warned FIL in advance on what to expect from A380.

They love the weather that morning, it was a cool morning. But somehow towards the afternoon, the weather got warmer and warmer (almost up to 30 degrees). We had to tell them that they happened to arrive on a peculiarly hot day. We even accused them of bringing Singapore weather to Sydney.

Over the next few days, we took them to Shopping Mall (Rhodes, Bankstown) for them to buy their necessities and for mum to buy grocery shopping. I brought her home-cooked food for lunch since we stopped our 'rantangan'/tiffin.

They had to learn how to switch on/off the alarm of our apartment, learn to use the phone to let guest in, learn to separate garbage to recyclable and non-recyclable and learn to use dryer. I hope they could cope with the information-overload at such a short time.

But they are very happy, especially my FIL. He had dreamed of living in a foreign country since young so he said his dream came true now he's here. He started buying some potted plants that he could tend during the day. We subscribed to all Foxtel channels for them, my MIL would watch the food channels while FIL will watch the rest. We played badminton yesterday, just like what we used to do back in Singapore :)