happy day to all!!

it's so fun to wake up here!! there are magpies, cockatoos, currawongs, king parrots, kookaburras, rainbow lorikeets, and galahs to greet you. and by greeting, i mean screaming. i remember when we used to be bothered by blue jays at burney falls in the wee small hours of the morning. that is nothing like all of these birds making crazy sounds. it's not too bad because i've been waking up pretty early anyway, but i just think that for whomever is sleeping in till 8 must have a hard time.

yesterday was the chillest day of them all, and i really loved it. james and i went for yum cha (hhahahah, i said, "cha") which is really dim sum. i'm not sure the difference between the names, but they serve exactly the same things. i didn't eat a whole lot, but juuust enough, and all of my favorite things, so you know i was really happy!!

after that, we came back and james did some errands with cathy while elizabeth and i watched a movie and hung out here. after that, we went out to dinner at james' favorite place: tak kee, with his friend peter. omg, i never hear the end of how good that place is back home. hee hee!! it was pretty yummy, and just great to watch james' face as he was so happy to be eating there again. :)

oh yeah, and elizabeth's formal dance (sort of like prom) was last night!! she looked so amazing in her dress and hair all done up!! james got to drive her and her date over to where it was being held, and it was SOOOO ghetto outside!! there were tons of dudes there from other schools or who had already graduated just yelling as people were driving in. i seriously didn't understand why they would even care, but they're boys, so who knows there reasoning.

overall, it was nice to have such a relaxing day, and not really have to worry about finding places to go or things to do. we're going to do the whole touristy thing when we're in sydney, and i'm really just excited to not have any work to do and get to know everyone here a bit better.

well, i'm off to go for a nice walk and find some kangaroos!! yes, i'm seriously just going for a walk around the neighborhood and we'll be seeing some. how cool is that??

xoxoxo!! :)