Home is Where Your Giant Backpack is.

Well, we're back home in Adelaide now, and it really does feel like home now. The holiday was amazing and I loved seeing other pieces of Australia, but damn it's nice to be home, an do home stuff. Luckily yesterday and today have been super sunny so I've been able to do laundry and hang it to dry instead of carting all my shit to a laundromat. Dryers are not popular here, much to my dismay. Unfortunately though, I ended up putting one load up a little too close to sunset, and they didn't dry. Tim said it should be nice enough, just leave them out overnight, and while he was right, today is nice enough, at 3am when I woke up it was winding and raining like you would not believe! I decided it best to just clean up in the morning, and stay in bed. Turns out only one sock and a pillow case made it to the ground and the rest is nice and dry, excellent!

That said, Brisbane was super fun, we toured around the City a lot, went to the huge malls (like Indooroopilly, seriously I will give any Canadian who can pronounce that on the first try money) and the park along the river (Southbank.) It was so warm! It honestly felt like late spring in Canada, and it was shocking that this is mid-winter here. Tim's cousins took us to Wagamama for J-food, and it was (for everyone else) delicious, but i ordered potentially the most boring dish on this earth, sucks to be me! Even without much flavor, it was still pretty tasty though. I went to a Subway for lunch, and ordered my go-to sub that I ALWAYS get because it is the best (chicken bacon ranch) and it was not NEAR as good. For one, they just used ham, because bacon is not Canadian bacon, which I accepted, but they also use way more processed cheese, so it ws just incredibly weak. However, Tim and I both have a love for McDonald's breakfast, so we went for that, and while they don't have my go-to item there, they did have something even MORE exciting, a double bacon muffin. Its two hunks of Aussie bacon, and cheese and muffin, and it is better than anything i have ever had fast food in the morning ever.

I do unfortunately have work to do today, euck. This week the goal is to find a job, so I have to Australia-ize my resume. I also have to finish all my laundry, since my backpack's waterproof coating is wearing off and has covered all my clothes in waterproof powder, and stink. Then I'm going to rip apart Tim's old street directories and make a giant wall sized map of Adelaide so I can get my bearing as to where things are. Finally, we are hopefully going to find supplies to craft shelves and a closet the DIY way... I don't know if I have mentioned this, but our room is TINY and I should probably post pictures of it. Its a long skinny rectangle, and it is exactly as wide across as a double bed. To be honest, I love this little room (it just despirately needs so homey touches.)