Fruit Salad and Mixed Veg

Welcome back to my blog (there should be a waving smiley)

It's my grandma's birthday on Tuesday so we took her out to lunch today. She said she wanted to go to 'Dundees Hotel/Dundees Crocodile and Wildlife Park'. *sigh* Yes, I actually sighed when I found out we were going there.


After 4.75 hours sleep, I travelled for 1.5 hours with my family to get to an 'all you can eat' restaurant, randomly placed on the side of a freeway...

$18 buys you 'all you can eat'...not that anyone would ever eat $18 worth of food.

Left to right:
Sister- Lots of carbs, some dead animal (iron and protein) and some veggies under there somewhere
Dad- Err weren't you looking up ways to lower cholesterol on the net last night? Well, ok you've got some protein there and some greens...but I don't know what the brown stuff is
Mum- You like potato, hey? Didn't we get 5kg of potatoes for $2 on Thursday? And you paid $18 for this...?
Grandma- sat too far away so didn't get a pic


My mum also ate some prawns. Nothing more classy than ripping out the intestinal tract of a dead sea creature at the dinner table


HOT WATER My meal...$0...best price EVER


I took a photo of this because it looks pretty Do you prefer rouns sprinkles or the straight sprinkles?

Then we went home I like looking out of the window at the country side which looked like this and this in spots.

This is in a village named Callington. I like clouds.


In other news...

My mum bought 3kg of oranges!!! Oranges make me happy. So does porridge. Porridges with oranges in it makes me super happy.


I baked a lemon and poppy seed cake last week. It was definately NOT the best cake I have ever made, probably because I kind of 'invented' the recipe and didn't put enough eggs in. I still ate it though


Puma shoes are really good in my opinion. Why? I've been wearing the same pair for 5.5 years and they have only started to 'die' recently. I refuse to pay over $50 for shoes, considering shoes priced at $100 are NOT worth $100 (I do learn stuff at uni that I can apply to real life woah! )

I found some Converse shoes in a brochure for $50. When I got to one store the woman said
'Oh it's only the blue ones that are $50. The gold are $80'
Me- So a different colour is $30?!
Woman- Yes...
Me- You can keep the shoes then

Then I went to another store (the same store but a different location) and took the gold shoes to the check-out. They wanted to charge me $80 for them too! However, I used my knoweldge of small print and generally annoyed the staff and got them for $50


I also bought a warm polar fleece jumper recently. It's from Paddy Pallin, an outdoor shop where the staff are soooo much more friendly and helpful than the staff in the store I got my shoes from. I asked the guy for a student discount and got one

With my new jumper, I can ride a bike, go hiking and mountain climbing. Wow, a whole world of opportunities awaits me and my jumper

My dad and I drove to Murray Bridge on Thursday, with me behind the wheel and my dad talking on the phone, trying to instruct me at the same time...


As I didn't want to hang around some office for 3 hours, I decided I would walk around. However, that meant I had to park the car first... I parked too close to the white car and nearly hit it...I managed to get out of the car, but when it was time for my dad to get behind the wheel...he couldn't get in! He went back to the passener side and climbed over the gear bit to get behind the wheel


There are lots of little, uninteresting shops in Murray Bridge. There's one called Neds which is a craft/gift shop which was filled with Christmas junk. Yes, I call it junk becasue once Christmas has finished it all goes into the bin...well it does here anyway. The main street has lots of bins and chairs. Why so many chairs? Well, after 10 minutes you would have seen everything this town has to offer, so you need somewhere to sit until it's time to go home.


The main shopping centre has a very unfriendly atmosphere, the stairs are marked from people's shoes and there's a Steve Irwin cardboard cut out near the door. In the shopping centre, there is a bookshop. The bookshop was probably the most interesting thing in the town-they should put it in a tourist brochure. Why buy books when you can read them in the store? According to Lonely Planet, there's a spice shop in Hamburg that's really good and there's a book about emos too.

Usually, parks are quiet, relaxing places. In Murray Bridge there are two parks near the mainstreet, both of which are near a noisy intersection. They're not the palce for picnics or BBQs and this is proved by the fact that there IS NO BBQ!


You'd be glad to know Murray Bridge has electricty. Does the author of this blog have any proof? Well, yes, this voltage box...or perhaps it's a pretend voltage box.. It's a strange shade of brown and you can stand on it if you want to see stuff...though there's not much to see.


The community art gallery is not the place for lovers of art. If you like looking at ametuer sketches, then visit the gallery, if not don't go there! If you like bargains, there's a Salvation Army store in the town. There you can buy a 1970s red velvet couch, ancient National Geographic magazines and dusty glass bowls.

You can really tell that no architectual thought went into the designing/landscaping of the road in/out of Murray Bridge. The McDonalds is positioned too far from the main street.


This is the view from a high bit of the free-way. Everything is dying so if you like the colours wheaty-yellow and brown, you should build a Summer house along the free-way


If you're driving to a cemetery in the country, there's no need to buy flowers. You can just pick some from the side of the road and prove your Aussie-scabiness.


This is the 'real' Australia that you wont see in travel books.

The side for recycling burns faster and the food scrap side hardly gets burnt at all.! The food scrap side had some capsicum in it-I guess it's roasted capsicum now

I went walking up the hill today and saw some flowers that weren't there previously-