It's going really well folks!! I found Big W today (which bears an uncanny likeness to Wal-Mart, they have "roll-backs" and the little yellow smiley face)but, more importantly, they have CHEAP STUFF!!! Yeah!! I am beginning to realize that Esteban and I just happened to move into an expensive neighborhood. AND, I found my first thrift store, or as they call them down under, op shop. Its run by a brotherhood of something and it was pretty great. I didn't really get to look around that much however because I was on my way to the Melbourne Zoo. You know, I really just want to write Mel-bun, cuz that's how everyone says it anyway.
The zoo...we had a great time at the zoo. It was a beautiful day and I have to say that Australia has beautiful clouds. I can't really even say how they are different but they are and the sky is so blue. Yesterday while we were at the zoo, the sky was just amazing. Its as if the clouds don't block the sun. And they are so white, yes, that's part of it. They seem whiter than at home. Of course, I did live in Pittsburgh! I even found a yarn store, a little pricey but good yarns, not much selection. I also took the kids on the tram all by myself for the first time and it went quite well. I took the boys down to South Mel-bun to have lunch with Papi and his new co-workers. It was so hot that day, I thought I was going to faint on the tram. The boys were all red-cheeked and sweaty. When I got the Esteban's office I commented on the heat and they responded "Heat?? This isn't hot! Wait until the summer!" But all you yankees reading this have to understand that this day was like a pretty average summer day in the northern states, like a day in August,exept not humid. In other words, I don't know if I will survive a summer here. You all will be scraping the ice of your wipers and pulling out the extra blankets and I will be here sweating to death wishing for snow. I just ask that you think of us while you shovel the drive.
What am I crazy!?!?! I'm not gonna miss the snow...I live 500 ft from a pool (or rather about 170 metres)!!! But I won't brag.
I digress, I meant to talk about the zoo. I was a really great zoo with many animals I had never seen before in my life. I have now seen a kookaburra, and that's somethin'. They are quite strange looking birds. Look them up sometime. What else?? A wombat...I saw a wombat very up close. I will say that about the Melbourne Zoo, they have done the "up-close" thing very well. I was a little to "up-close" to the lions, but the kids loved it. Wombats are like furry little pigs and their paws look like little children's hands. They are very cute while they are sleeping. I think they are my new favorite animal. Or maybe that is the echidna. I thought I was looking at a very large hedgehog. They must be in the same family. I will look to see if I took a picture.
No comments:
Post a Comment