Monday, August 01, 2005

My First Post!

It has been nearly a month since we left the States, and things in Syndey are slowly starting to feel normal. We still have to be extremely careful about crossing the street (you have to look to the right), and we only occasionally drive on the wrong side of the road.

The food here is great, if you can overlook the lack of Mexican food (we did find fresh tortillas, however.) There are approximately 25,000 Thai restaurants, and all have cute names -- thai riffic, thai tanic, thai one on, bow thai. Most restaurants have a BYO policy -- with no corkage fee. Since there is a bottle shop (liquor store) on every corner, a fancy dinner with a bottle of wine for two people can cost as little as $25US.

I would like to clarify the nature of our insect friends that Nick mentioned in our previous post. The number of the bugs was not remarkable, it was the fact that there were three different types of cockroaches that was so interesting. The little cute fast ones, the big fat slow ones, and the in-between sized ones. Not sure if there are three species or what, but wow! Until I went into the communal kitchen, I thought that our temporary housing was very nice ... now, I think that our room is nice and the rest should be entered at your own risk. Oh well, soon we will have our own apartment and no one to blame but ourselves for uninvited pests. (At least these weren't huntsman spiders.)

posted by Peggy C. at 3:57 PM