A whole year later.

Well, today was the big one year anniversary!!

[When do we stop being considered Newlyweds??]

We did lots of exciting things and got up way too early. [Now, the plan is to hop into bed with a few episodes of The IT crowd. [You should definitely check out that series. Hilarious.]]

But first, a re-cap.

We spent tons of time in the city! We went to a mall that we have never seen, [Chris even liked it.], went to the Docklands, [I’m pretty sure I got sunburned there], wandered around the city some more, had dinner, and then went to St. Kilda beach to visit the penguins. [Uh huh, I said penguins.] We're going to try and spend every June 12th on a beach. [Even if it's the crummy beach of the man made lake near our house.]

A tree I befriended at the Docklands.

Penguin!

When we got home one of our housemates wrote this on our chalkboard. It's in French so we had him translate it. I cried. Don't worry, the picture is meant to be the author of the poem, not Chris.

Catch Up

Well hey there, blog land.
It's been awhile, huh??

I've been so absent because school is a bit full blown right now. Assignments all over the place and not enough time to take care of them all. I guess that's how it goes though, right?

Even though things are a bit crazy, we did have to make some tough decisions.
Originally, we were scheduled to come home on July 31st. A few weeks ago we realized that we are dirt poor and no one wants to give us a job. So, we had to change our return date and are now coming home on June 28th. We're really sad and really excited all at the same time. Hopefully we'll be able to do a bit more traveling since we're saving a month's worth of rent.

Even though we have to go home early, we haven't been up to very much lately. [Ok, that makes a lot of sense. School.]

The week following Easter has been our Spring break. Alright, I mean Easter break. [because it's Autumn and not Spring.] Since just about everyone in our house went away for break, no one was home on Easter. Since it's a holiday and everything, we celebrated together on the Thursday before.

We dyed eggs and had an amazing dinner. [My mom would be so proud of my mad skills. That's right, I cooked.] We had ham, home-made mashed potatoes, stuffing, salad, and pumpkin pie for dessert. [Thanks to the West family for sending us canned pumpkin!]Boys. After they ate.

Girls.
The girls of the house.

Pie!
Finally, a good picture of our little family.

I promise I'll be on top of things now. At least I'm going to try.

La La Life

What's that? You're wondering where we've been?


Well, I'll tell you...


The beginning of the week was school.
Yada, yada - boring, boring.

Thursday was St. Patty's Day and green was the theme. [Obviously.]

Tina-Bo-Bina

Alice

Apparently Australians aren't really into St. Pat.
Stores were not decked out in clovers and leprechauns.
In fact it was impossible to find a green shirt, green beads, clover stickers, or anything green. There weren't even swarms of people in green at the places I'm accustomed to seeing them.

When we finally found some green it was exchange students like us or other Uni kids embracing the holiday for green alcohol.

Despite the differences, St. Patrick's Day was definitely fun.
How was your's?

Let's get to the weekend.
First, some back story.

In Boise, Chris and most of his family are in a car club known as the Treasure Valley Model A's. It's also part of MAFCA [Model A Ford Club of America.]
Well, there is also a club in Australia. [MAFSA]
Basically; Chris knows a guy, who knows a guy, who knows a guy that invited us to go on a run here in Victoria.

We got up really early on Saturday to take a tram and three trains to meet the man we know through a trillion degrees of separation.
He didn't show up.
=(

BUT, we were in a pretty cool town [with a beach] that we had never been to.

Even though we got up early to do something we didn't do, it was still fun to be somewhere new.
Also, I'm pretty positive that's not the last time we'll see the man we didn't actually see.

After we came home we were talked into going somewhere for $4 pizza. [$4, not a lot of convincing was needed.]

We met heaps of people from all over the world and stayed up way too late.
After all, we're in Australia. We do what we want, right?

Now it's Sunday and we're back to school in the morning.

I guess I should get going on my homework, huh?

Have a beautiful week!