It feels like a ton has happened since my last note, so here goes. Before Easter weekend (a nice 4 day break here in Oz), a friend took me to a free spa night where they essentially feed you cheese and crackers and champagne (obviously perfect for me) and sell you things. So I got a free facial and my first ever spray tan (which I really liked)...and by the time I left I had purchased laser hair removal sessions starting next week. I'm a bit nervous but mostly excited...I'll keep you posted on my progress :)
After that, I headed down to Jervis Bay a few hours south of Sydney for a few relaxing days in a cute little town Huskisson on the beach. I went with 2 new friends, both Brits so I mostly drank hot tea the whole time...a childhood tradition I plan to reincorporate into my life (especially since I am the only person on earth who doesn't drink coffee). It was a great weekend. We stayed in a lovely little B&B run by who else but a british couple. It was clean and homey and the breakfast was amazing every day. There are great national parks so we hiked and went wine tasting and saw lots of great wildlife (which you can see on FB). Snakes, kangaroos, wallabys...good times.
We also had an amazing dinner at a treetop restaurant where I tried kangaroo meat for the first time and loved it. It's like a very lean, melt in your mouth steak. Although, I have heard that it depends on who is cooking it. I didn't practice my left-side driving - I handled the map and navigating instead...so next time there should be good stories on that.
Last night I went to my first AFL (Aussie Rules) game at the sydney cricket grounds. The stadium is great and we managed to get tix from a member so we sat right before the 'dugout'. I loved watching...so fast-paced and impressive. It reminds me more of soccer/ultimate frisbee combo...nothing at all like NFL really. Lots of running, no pads, and lots of kicking/catching the ball. They literally play on a HUGE field nonstop..I don't think they had any time outs and are constantly subbing in and out like ice hockey. The Sydney Swans kicked the Richmond Tiger's butts...so a good time was had by all. :) I was with three French friends and we had absolutely no clue what was going on..prompting the Aussie guys in front of us to ask how we had member tickets..ha. They were quite nice about explaining the game though. And to top it off, after every game they let the entire stadium run down on the field and play, run, catch etc. Really fun and we got some good photos in the player dugout.
That's all I can remember for now...I'm off to an American Expat Meetup to play some touch football at the Domain - a park down by the harbor. Then off to a movie screening of an Aussie war film (in which I gather they take credit for winning WWII - gotta love Aussie enthusiasm :)).
Hasta luego!
PS. The office manager here (the Sydney Mamajo) is still not happy with me for eating Skippy...so she is threatening a bald eagle bbq. oops.
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