all the small things

So there a few things that I have noticed, the first is that everything is the wrong way around, the cars are on the wrong side and its so weird to see people on the other side driving, also when I keep checking traffic to cross the road, I am checking the wrong side of the road! Lucky I have Roy here with me, hehe. Walking on the footpath, again we tend to walk on the wrong side of the path, it follows the driving, just like ours does at home. We are always having to move to the other side of the path as we just seem to always end up on the wrong side. Escalators as well, we always go to walk up the wrong one coz we are used to going up the other side.

Also they have so much more candy! Honestly I am loving all the new candy I am trying, right now I am eating skittles – tropical they are sooo good and yesterday I bought Smirnoff – Grape oh yeah, plus there are thousands of peanut butter flavoured choccies here as well, you know I love my peanut butter. The only thing that is harder to find is champers, but they have so many cocktails that I am prepared to wait till I get home for some bubbles! Roy is loving all the local micro brewed beers as well, he is waiting any day now to get Gout – Mahalo!!

Also I think that we should introduce tipping in Australia, although I was a bit apprehensive at first, honestly I think that it makes the dining experience so much more pleasant as they really work for that tip, they are so polite and everyone is always checking how everything is, but without being annoying as there would be nothing worse than too much attention, but we have had nothing but good experiences whilst here with all the staff and all the meals, everything has been so enjoyable that we have actually wanted to tip them, some of the service we get at home is really bad compared to here, even in the department stores they are like “I hope that I was enough help for you today”, not like at home when the girls wont even smile let alone care if they have helped you with your purchases. Which is essentially why they are there, but they seemed to have missed the memo on that little part of their job.

I am sure its all seems wonderful now a week and a half in, but I am really enjoying it and everyone is so nice and helpful.

We ran into a lovely couple on our last day in Maui and they actually live in New York and the girl had actually lived in Australia for 6 months while studying so we had a laugh about how expensive it is at home and also they gave us some great pointers for things to do in New York, from someone that lives there is always good.

Went to Macy’s today, what fun! Its like Myer and David Jones together, but half the price for the same brands. Bree you would have died today at the cosmetics counter with me, don’t worry I got some for you as well. Dior Addicts we are!!!! The lady was so helpful and fun.

The shopping I have done today has been so much fun, I love that everything is open till like 11pm at night, its nice to be able to go and have dinner and then stroll around afterwards in Tiffany or Gucci!! Haha how am I ever going to leave this shopping heaven on earth!

Roy is also loving it, everything here is sports sports and more sports, we just enjoyed Monday night football and I don’t know why they don’t call it everyday football coz everyday there is another game on, or some college hoops that Roy keeps watching, actually he is always watching something sports but as long as he is happy then so am I.

We leave you again with some more pics from today.

Oh Kim Roy said to tell you that yes the hand dryers in Jimmy Buffett’s really do move the skin on your hand, they are super powerful! We ate there today for lunch, it was awesome. We might even go back there for Thanksgiving on Thursday.

Gnarly dudes!!