Attempting to post this so my cousin can show people!
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Monday, April 20, 2009
Aussie Down Under Day!
A few weeks ago, Trishelle and I decided that we missed Australia and all the fun that goes along with travelling and figured we should have an Australia Day, and do all the things we missed so much. A lot of the things we wanted to do are hardly considered "Australian" by definition but they were things we both associate with the land down under.
Yesterday was the day. April 19th marks the first Aussie Down Under Day (ADUD? - seems like a poor acronym).
Things we decided to do:
*drink cappucinos (as we spent a lot of time doing this in Oz, since it's impossible to get a coffee as we know it here in Canada)
*eat desserts - we used to spend time at the dessert shops on Acland St in St. Kilda eating things like Vanilla Slices and Lamingtons and other delightful desserts. We only ate biscotti yesterday, however.
*eat kebabs - aka schwarma for us here in Canada. Typical after-the-bar food down under. Even though we actually didn't eat these all that often, it seemed appropriate.
*go tanning - it's not quite warm enough to spend time at the beach here in the Great White North so we opted for the next best thing ... tanning beds!
*go swimming - again, not quite warm enough to beach it up properly though we hit up the pool. In the spirit of Australia, Trishelle tried something she'd never done and went down the waterslide. Swimming didn't actually last very long but we realized that even at the beach we never spent that much time IN the water, and instead just laid on the sand. \
*eat gelato - there was a fantastic gelato place on Acland St in St. Kilda (right near the cafe that gave us free biscotti with our cappucinos) , so we hit up the one gelato place in Waterloo and pretended it was anywhere near warm enough to be eating ice cream.
*eat Tim Tams - thank goodness I have my friend Dave in Oz that keeps me in good supply.
And on the list of things to do that we couldn't do because of logistics:
*have a BBQ (for obvious shrimp-on-the-barby reasons)
*drink Australian beer (not gonna drink Fosters cuz they don't drink that crap down there. It's Carlton Draught or Tooey's Extra Dry... but I don't think they have that here)
*drink Australian wine (bought some but totally forgot the crucial corkscrew!)
Other things I did to celebrate:
*wore my Target (Tar-jay) jeans purchased while downunder
*wore my mikes shirt that I wore all the time
*wore flip flops (thongs by Aussie definition)
*wore my blue necklace that I bought in Singapore on the way there.
Yesterday was the day. April 19th marks the first Aussie Down Under Day (ADUD? - seems like a poor acronym).
Things we decided to do:
*drink cappucinos (as we spent a lot of time doing this in Oz, since it's impossible to get a coffee as we know it here in Canada)
*eat desserts - we used to spend time at the dessert shops on Acland St in St. Kilda eating things like Vanilla Slices and Lamingtons and other delightful desserts. We only ate biscotti yesterday, however.
*eat kebabs - aka schwarma for us here in Canada. Typical after-the-bar food down under. Even though we actually didn't eat these all that often, it seemed appropriate.
*go tanning - it's not quite warm enough to spend time at the beach here in the Great White North so we opted for the next best thing ... tanning beds!
*go swimming - again, not quite warm enough to beach it up properly though we hit up the pool. In the spirit of Australia, Trishelle tried something she'd never done and went down the waterslide. Swimming didn't actually last very long but we realized that even at the beach we never spent that much time IN the water, and instead just laid on the sand. \
*eat gelato - there was a fantastic gelato place on Acland St in St. Kilda (right near the cafe that gave us free biscotti with our cappucinos) , so we hit up the one gelato place in Waterloo and pretended it was anywhere near warm enough to be eating ice cream.
*eat Tim Tams - thank goodness I have my friend Dave in Oz that keeps me in good supply.
And on the list of things to do that we couldn't do because of logistics:
*have a BBQ (for obvious shrimp-on-the-barby reasons)
*drink Australian beer (not gonna drink Fosters cuz they don't drink that crap down there. It's Carlton Draught or Tooey's Extra Dry... but I don't think they have that here)
*drink Australian wine (bought some but totally forgot the crucial corkscrew!)
Other things I did to celebrate:
*wore my Target (Tar-jay) jeans purchased while downunder
*wore my mikes shirt that I wore all the time
*wore flip flops (thongs by Aussie definition)
*wore my blue necklace that I bought in Singapore on the way there.
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Picture Time!
I haven't added any pictures to my life in AGES! I finally got out and shot some of London on Sunday afternoon. I borrowed the Canon 10-22 from work and wandered Hamilton Rd in London and shot some of the sketchy things that one comes across while wandering.
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