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February 10th 2009 by Todd and Alicen
We're in Westerna Australia!!!
Everyone speaks English!
The Signs.Are.In. ENGLISH!!!
Cool!
The weather is perfect and Perth is like some sort of a perfect city. Wow.
It's as if someone had read my mind and created the city which I have mentally designed as The Perfect City. The downtown is pretty small but very clean, well set up, and very nice. There's lots of water. The beach is really close and even though I haven't seen any yet, there are plenty of kangeroos all around!
Perth is like a combination of San Diego (if San Diego waas way more relaxed and slower paced and less crowded) and Boise, Idaho, but only 1 million people spread out through the whole region. We're crashing with my friend James from our first year in Japan and his neighborhood is really central.
We'll be here for at least 2 weeks, but may extend if for a few days and miss out on that much more time in Thailand.
We had a fantastic 2 weeks in Thaialnd, visting Krabi and Phuket and having very, very different experiences in both towns. Krabi was so chilled out and pristine and Phuket was full-on tourist, red light districts everywhere you look, and a really nice hotel.
We're really looking forward to getting to know Australia a bit and thinking we'll throw a big steak and prawn (they don't actually use the word 'shrimp' here) on the barbie!
It's great to be out of Asia for the first time in 14 months and we're really going to enjoy being able to properly communicate with people and eat some actual Western Food while we can!
Hope to post pictures one of the days while we're here to get all caught up; I know these posts are a lot more interesting with some visuals, so I'll do my best!
Cheers from Down Under, Mates!
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February 10th 2009 - Mom: Enjoy!
I love that Austrailian accent! I ran across a ticket in my scrapbooking stuff that admitted Grandma Smith and Aunt Liz to a Gil Shaham and Paavo Jarvi Concert in the Sydney Opera House. It is dated Wednesday, July 18, 2001, 8PM. If you get to Sydney, perhaps their aura will still be there. I'd love a real live picture of the Opera House, and you two in it, of course, to go with the ticket. I also found a picture of Aunt Liz and Grandma Smith (she's holding a koala bear) in the Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary. It would be beyond cool if you could take a picture of yourselves at that same place. It would be a tri-generational vicarious experience. I have no idea where these places are compared to Perth. By the way, my Grandmother Smith was born and raised in Perth (Scotland, of course). It's a stretch, but perhaps this qualifies as a quad-generational thing. Was Perth, Austrailia named after Perth, Scotland. How about a picture of Perth's City Sign, if there is such a thing. No pictures, no problem. Have great fun and stay well! Love, Mom
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