Oh the sadly neglected blog!

A short bits of news/facts/random trivia:

James' Spring Break is the 20th-24th.

Victoria is having record breaking floods after 10 years of drought.

Australia has just elected Julia Gillard, their first Female Prime Minister, to Office ( She was the first ever acting female PM in June '10 when she took over office from Paul Rudd)

It's Melbourne's Spring Fashion Week

It's starting to get warmer. I LOVE it

Did you know DVD's are encoded with Zones so that they only play in their zone? We had to change our laptop to be able to play AU DVD's

For the year 2010 Melbourne has an estimated population of 4,000,000

I watched the Ellen Degeneres show today! It originally aired in March.

Melbourne has the largest tram network in the world. It's fantastic. They have Heritage Trams dating from the 1930's that run on certain routes. Those are our favorite :)

Cultural laughs:
I like when Australia give encouragement. Most often I hear, "Yeh, good-on, ya"

Cavan wants to play soccer for AU


On Sunday we went to dinner with a few friends. We celebrated three birthdays (Rupa, Jay & me all within 6 days) and Sunday was Fathers Day in AU so James got an extra daddy day this year :)