Wednesday, November 18, 2009

echidna |əˈkidnə| noun a spiny insectivorous egg-laying mammal with a long snout and claws, native to Australia and New Guinea. Also called spiny ante

I'm really not in the mindset to do this right now after having spent roughly an hour posting photos to Facebite but I'll try anyways.

Whats new with us???

Went to the Blue Mountains where we stayed in a really charming little hostel called the No.14. We were there for two days. on the first day we went on a 3hr long bushwalk into the beautiful blue mountains, aptly named due to the blue haze given off by the eucalyptus trees over the mountains. That day was a scorcher at about 33 degrees. The second day, we woke up to the smell of rain but it's alright because we had booked a trip to the Jenolan caves, about an hour outside Katoomba. Really beautiful caves with a really annoying droning tour guide! But seriously, really pretty and highly recommended. (I'm soooo hungry!). Katoomba is a cute little town speckled with art deco buildings, as if much of NSW that I've seen thus far. OH and we saw an echidna. SEE title. (and see facebite)

Other than that, just enjoying the weird city quirks that come along with living here. We also went to the Glebe Fair which was pretty cute. They close the major street that runs through Glebe, the boho suburb where we originally were staying with Tanya, and ahve all kinds of booths. We got some Lebanese food and corn on a cob on a stick. YURM.

Also, it was recently my birrrrthdayyyyyyyy but I worked that night so it was actually really uneventful. We stuffed our faces with sushi in the afternoon. YURM.

What else what else?E
-Visited Bondi for the annual Sculpture By the Sea art show. Gorgeous. (See Facebite)

Also, quirky Japanese roomates giving me massages on the floor. LOL. Yoko-san is the greatest woman alive.
AND our japanese vocabulary is expanding to include roughly 10-20 words. And our Ndebele (Zimbabwean language that has a CLICK SOUND) vocab includes.....well, one word.

THE ENDDDDDSKI.3