Zooooooooo + Thoughts

Soooo today Tim, Sarah, Hilary, Alyson and I mozied on over to the Taronga Zoo. It was awesome!!! The trip there was really great too because we had to take a ferry that went right through the Sydney Harbour and gave as amazing views of the Opera House and the Bridge as well as of course the beautiful Sydney skyline! Then when we got to the zoo, we took a cable car up over the zoo to the top of a mountain and worked our way down. We saw tons of cool animals but couldn't get as close as we did at the Aussie Reptile Park. Great day none the less though.

For breakfast this morning, Tim and I hit up a place called Naggy's Cafe which is just up the road from Tanya's. ORdering coffee has proved to be a tremendous challenge here because there is no such thing as well, a plain old filtered coffee like we have at home. Mostly all they have here is espresso so all their coffee is stupidly strong. So here is the Aussie Coffee Translation Guide:

Short Black = plain shot of espresso

Tall Black = two shots of espresso diluted with water...

Latte = Latte, duh

Flat White = Cafe Latte with no foam (my order of choice)

Americano = closest thing to a black filtered coffee.

Apparently Aussies like their coffee really strong. Even the Starbucks' here have mostly gone out of business because they don't make it strong enough! The one Starbucks we did visit had an option of adding extra coffee flavour shots if you didn't find their coffee strong enough. Much different than at home.

The lingo here is also rather interesting. It has proabbly been the biggest adjustment we have had to make. That and looking the opposite way when crossing the street lol since they drive on the left here. Further, cars have the right of way here but for some bizarre reason, Aussies LOVE to jaywalk. It's insane.

Lol anyways, it's been fun.

Ta, mate!

Steph