Drive Thru

We finally got used to driving on the left side of the road and then tried to go through the drive thru on the other side. I'll be honest... I'm lucky I didn't knock over the McDonald's as I tried to make the turn in Tug, but we made it.

PS- For the life of me I can't get the pictures positioned the correct way. SORRY. K, bye.

Random thought of the day

Why does a peanut butter and jelly sandwich taste so incredible on the beach?

I can't wait for the weekend...

Queen Victoria Market

This is from the famous Queen Victoria Market... home of endless stalls of fruit, veggies, candy, "bric a brac", and the dreaded meat market. We will NEVER AGAIN buy our meat here. I just can't quite handle the lack of basic food safety, i.e.- using bare hands to scoup up meat, package meat, hand off meat to customer, take money, place money in register, and finally... hand change to customer (w/ or w/o little chunks of meat stuck to the coins depending on how lucky you are). Ick, I get uncomfortable just thinking about it again. Ick.

Melbourne

It's not the best picture, but here's Melbourne as seen during our drive toward the city (and over the West Gate Bridge).

Anglesea Beach

We checked out Anglesea Beach this weekend (about 90 minutes west of Altona). We packed our boogie boards and decided to "give it a go" and had a BLAST! It was definately our best day in Australia so far. We learned how to ride the waves and found comfort in sharing the beach with families w/ small children. There were also a fair number of 60-70 year olds catching waves with us! It was perfect for us (as opposed to the super popular Torquay just down the rode where we probably would have been laughed off our $2 boards!!!).

AND... I think I'm modelling the '07 line of Madagascar beach towels quite nicely!

Tug

Let me introduce you to our lovely car "Tug" (nicknamed this because she's such a boat). Not only is she a sweet ride, but you can also see our awesome $2 boogie boards in this shot!

Perfection

wedges, diet coke, and the open road.