What the heck was that meat?? What the heck just scurried across the floor?? What the heck is biting us?? What the heck is with the rain?? All the answers you're looking just sentenes away...
Ok ok but first… I know I have some crazy hair in the last picture but for all of you who don’t read the ‘comments’ section I feel the need to explain. Especially since my Mom & Dad told me they felt sorry that I had to deal with the ‘humidity’ and having curly hair. Ha-ha – I was shocked to think my parents thought that was just my new ‘natural’ look. Come on – I’m sure if that was the case I’d be single by now!! It was just a ‘comb out’. It doesn’t happen often… but sometimes I get the urge to comb out my curly hair, give it a couple air fluffs and act like I’m the sexiest thing around!! ;) It was Halloween after all.
So 4 days ago we moved into our new place. We’re residents of Lane Cove… a suburb of Sydney. It’s weird how at home (in Canada) if somebody asks where you’re from you say Saskatoon and not the suburb you live in. Here you say the suburb and not the city. Goes to show just how much smaller we are compared to this city. Regardless of all that… the new pad is great!! We’re living with the nicest people you could possibly ask to live with. Steve the dad, Toni the mom, Charlie the daughter and Jonnie the beagle. Great people… we’re lucky to have found this place. We have the master bedroom of the house… which means we have our own bathroom/shower right off the room. It’s nice not having to share with a building full of other people. We’re paying for half the groceries which is great because both Steve & Toni are great cooks!! We’re getting some pretty tasty meals out of this. A lot better than the diet of noodles, pizza, wafers & Tim Tams we’ve been living on so far. Our waistlines are a perfect example of what our diets have been like. Cheap eats aren’t very good for a person. It’s a common occurrence for travelers though… we’ve heard similar stories from everybody we’ve met.
So why can’t our luck with the accommodation move over into the job scene?? I really don’t know. Hopefully we hear something soon… Nathan and I are both getting antsy to start making some cash. A person really doesn’t realize just how much they spend until they only see their account decreasing. It’s not fun… but it’s reality – and let me tell you… Australia isn’t cheap!! But it sure is a blast…
I can do without the rain though. Since we’ve been back in Sydney we haven’t seen much sun. The past 4 days have been miserable. I mean it’s quite cold here at the moment… no – not as cold as it is back home. I’ll stop complaining about it because I can already hear you all telling me to stop my whining because we’re not in negative degrees like you all are. But please believe me that it is quite chilly… a damp coldness on top of it. That’s never fun. We’re just hoping to see some rays of sunshine soon.
For all of you major animal lovers tuning in to our blog I will warn you that you may want to skip this paragraph. You might not enjoy what I have to say. Nathan and I both have tried a “Mystery Meat” (as Steve nicely put it). We were only told that we had to try it and see what it was like. So we did. It was a nice juicy steak. Cooked to perfection and tasting remarkable!! What was it you ask?? You probably guessed it since we are in Australia. Kangaroo. I don’t think I’d order it from a restaurant if it was an option (I’d rather stick to what’s familiar)… but I’m glad to say I tried it. Oh ya – Kathy… if you’re reading this… no – I’m not going to eat a baby Koala like you mentioned in your email!! My sister is one of those people who probably would have skipped this paragraph. I didn’t give her warning though like I did for all of you.
Other than all that Nathan and I are just plain itchy. Yes I typed that correctly – itchy. We have numerous bites on our arms, legs, feet, stomachs and backs. Now - there are flies here… but not the kind that bite. There are mozzies (mosquitoes for you all back home) but there aren’t any right now. So what the heck is biting us?? Ugh… it turns my stomach to even think about it but we’re sure it’s from bed bugs. Hostels aren’t the cleanest of places and who knows how many people slept in those beds before us. The laundry is ‘washed’… but is it really?? Makes you wonder about some of the places. Anyway – we started noticing bites when we were staying at “The Lamrock Lodge” & “Beached @ Bondi”. So for all of you people reading this and are perhaps traveling through Bondi Beach or even thinking of it – don’t stay at the 2 hostels I just mentioned. We think there are nasties in the beds!! Anyway – we really are suffering. They are quite large welts and super itchy!! I have to put band-aids on mine because I end up scratching them at night in my sleep ‘til I bleed. Poor us!! I’m just hoping they heal up now that we’re in a clean environment.
Things like that are quite the wakeup call from being back in the comfort of our homes. I mean all of you probably aren’t cooking supper with a giant cockroach bigger than the size of an average person’s thumb, crawling across your foot. Or going for a leisurely walk during the evening but dodging those things as they scurry all around on the ground. They fly too I hear… so if you guys hear someone screaming bloody murder it’s me from way over here… and one would have just landed on me.
These are some of the non-appealing things we’ve seen. They don’t even amount to the moments that have taken our breath away though. So what the heck are you all waiting for?? Get your butts in gear and get down here!! We’re waiting for you all…
E&N
p.s. We're not always putting all of our pictures in a specific new folder. So make sure to check out the "All photos" album once in awhile. You may see some new ones in there!!
