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Sunday, September 1, 2013 - Day 38 Living Down Under

I got out of the apartment yesterday!  I went to the grocery store to get food. Chaney is still sick so we stuck close to home the rest of the weekend.  On Saturday, Erich took Charlie with him to the park and to run some errands and today he took him to Questacon, the science museum.  On Saturday we also watched rugby on tv.  The season is almost over so Erich says we need to enjoy it now since it won't be back on until February.  Yes.   I need to enjoy it now.  That's exactly what I was thinking.

Charlie and a million Erichs at the museum. Charlie looks so grown up here!  

Chaney and me on Sunday morning.

Watchin' TV together.

The weather was beautiful this weekend!  We can tell spring is around the corner.  The trees and bushes are starting to bloom.  Below is a picture of some pretty blooming bushes I saw on the way back from the grocery store.  I broke all sorts of laws touching my phone while in the driver's seat.  (Don't worry, I was at a stop light.)  But I just had to show you.  So if I get a ticket in the mail, you will pay half, right?

 



I've mentioned before that the Australians will elect a new prime minister in September.  The two main political parties are the Labor Party and the Coalition.  But, there are other smaller parties that have out signs and are mailing literature.  For example, there is the Sex Party.  I kid you not.  Some of their platform includes regulation and taxation of marijuana, decriminalizing personal drug use, and legalizing voluntary euthanasia. The Sex Party.  If you aren't easily offended, you can watch their tv commercial here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=hxZ0yDTfnjw#t=44
It reminds me of a Saturday Night Live skit.  But it's for real.  Totally legit.  The Sex Party.

My Random Thoughts and Observations...

• Chaney will be staying home again tomorrow from school.  (And when I say "home", I really mean our shrinking hotel apartment.)  She has been hit worse with this nastiness than Charlie was.  Hopefully she will be back to school on Tuesday or Wednesday.
• The Aussies like the phrase "straight away" for meaning right away.   When Erich picked up Charlie from school on Friday, Charlie said, "Daddy, I want to go home straight away."  The kids are already using the local lingo.
• This morning we woke up and turned on the tv to see if we could get any American college football games since it was Saturday night in the U.S.  We have been told that on Sunday mornings they do play college football.  But it looks like we will have to wait until we are in our house and have cable. 
• In Australia, lemonade is a carbonated beverage with a lemon flavouring. There was a girl on the news today that had a lemonade stand to raise money for cancer.  To me, a lemonade stand is where you prepare (squeeze) the lemons, etc.  I wonder if here they serve that kind of lemonade at a lemonade stand or if they just open their carbonated beverage to serve. 
• I almost cried (for happiness) when I saw an American NFL Football commercial on a local TV station yesterday.  Joy. 
• Today was Australian Father's Day.  Erich is such a great dad, he deserves to celebrate it twice this year. 
• Down here, corn starch is called corn flour.  Ask me how long it took me to find that out while I was wandering the aisles at the local grocery store.  Go ahead, ask me.
• I've mentioned before they play a lot of American TV shows here. I saw a promo ad for an American show they are going to start showing soon.  Here Comes Honey Boo Boo will be starting soon.  Great.  That is not the way I want people down here to picture Americans.  Have you seen Here Comes Honey Boo Boo?  You should try and catch an episode. You have no idea what you've been missing.
• I almost named this post "Sex Party."