Love and Hate

What we love about Australia
1. cricket
It's almost as good as baseball.

2. cookies
America has the basics -- oreos, chocolate chip, and snaps. Aussie has fifty million different kinds of biscuits (cookies). You just can't have a favorite, since each one is better than the last. Not healthy, though.

3. plumbing
Aussie toilets are way cool. They have two flush buttons, one for a half flush and one for a full flush. Makes a lot more sense than Austin's low-flush toilets which cake up with lime and soon become no-flush toilets.

Aussie showerheads are heaven. Feels like you're in a tropical rainstorm. If you've ever taken a shower at our house, you've experienced it.

What we don't love about Australia
1. the lack of healthy food
Oh, you can find it if you really look, but even the vegetarian stuff is battered and fried. And I'm not talking "health food," I'm just talking non-fried stuff.

2. plumbing
Yes, plumbing is on the list of things we love. However, the dark side of plumbing is the blasts of scorching hot water in the shower for no particular reason, or the way the toilets mysteriously stop flushing at 8 am, or the time I had hair dye covering my head and there was no water anywhere in the unit when my half hour was up (luckily, the water at my parents place across the complex was still on, and nudity is not as taboo here as it is in the States. ;)

3. sand fleas and mosquitoes
We are both covered in little red bumps on our legs from the sand fleas, and little red bumps on our arms from the mossies. Off helps with prevention, and Ivarest helps with cure, but it is Not Fun.