My update - spammers leave me alone!

Have done a Home and Away update below. But now its time for my own.

Yesterday was Australia day and me and Debra decided to take in some Australian culture and go to a fair. We headed down to see what they had in store for us.

There was dog trialing, sprinting, bull riding (one bull in particular was quite feisty and gave us quite a fright when Debra tried to take a picture), pig racing (mine and Debra’s came last and second to last), various other things and Camel riding. I couldn’t pass up the opportunity and decided to wait in line. After half an hour in the sweltering temperature we finally got our ride and what an experience. Camels are somewhat taller than horses and higher from the ground. Gave us quite a shock when they got up and down, almost felt like I was falling off and defiantly didn’t want to do that. The guy who was operating the camel tours say they do an 18 day trek across the dessert, thanks but no thanks. Don’t think that is really me.

After being in the heat for the morning we decided to head to the theatre. We ended up seeing

Walk the Line with Joaquin (??) Phoenix and Reece Witherspoon.
The movie was about the life of Johnny Cash and June Carter. I thought this movie was great. We didn’t recognize many of the songs but enjoyed it the same. I would definitely recommend it and give it 4/5.

Another pastime we have decided to take up in Australia is French lessons. I found a number for a private French/German tutor and we began our first lesson on Monday night. Before we could even start learning French the tutor made us learn/reminded us of English grammar. I have never been very good at spelling and grammar and neither is Debra. After we established what was a noun, verb and adjective, we finally moved onto French words.

Up until this morning I was real excited about ice skating. We had decided that if we wanted to go further with our ice skating dream, we would need to invest in our own pair of iceskates. So after some investigation, we measured our feet, filled out the forms, took photos and sent them away asap so we could have them by Tuesday, for our next lesson. As is a constant rule practically in Australia, which I am quite frankly starting to get pissy about. Debra can get her skates but I can’t. Basically they have hers in size but for mine they need to send away to get them which is going to cost me an extra $75.00 plus take 4 to 6 weeks. I was most upset this morning, but have since cheered up (thanks mum, aren’t mums great like that) and will look into another place to see if I can get them. But it’s not fair Debra will have her new white shiny skates and I will have to keep using the crappy rentals!

Anyway I am hungry and its time for home.

Have a good weekend and sign my guestbook, haven’t had a message in a while and will give me more motivation to update more regularly.


Toni