One American Girl's Journey to Australia

        I am not in Adelaide anymore, but I was there on Saturday and Sunday. Out of everywhere in Australia I have been, I like Adelaide the best. Why? This is why:

1. Best zoo ever! We went to the Adelaide Zoo and saw wombats, echidnas, meerkats, giant pandas, fed orangutans (which we found out have a habit of spitting water on people), and petted a tiger!!! It was awesome!

2. Best chocolate shop ever! We went to Haigh's Chocolate Shop and I got a chocolate egg bigger than my head (see photo album)!!! Yea... Alright... Giggidy. We also sampled some chocolates, and had to gues what they were. I chose a realy good looking one, and of course, it turned out to be champagne. It was actually really good, and non-achoholic!

3. Best hotel room ever! We stayed at an awesome hotel, with a personal sauna (in my parents bathroom), a free minibar, a TV that retracts, and everything! Guess what? BILL CLINTON stayed in this hotel room too! LOL!

Those are just some reasons I like Adelaide. That basically sums up our vacation! Tomorrow Colly Smith is coming over, and it will be awesome! Make sure to check for updates!

-Abby the Awesome American Aussie

        Well, actually, I got my pets home from quaratine a while ago (like a week) but still, Lucy and KitKat are now in the Embassy. Both are adapting really well, which I am glad about except that KitKat has a habit of bringing in baby Blue-Tongued Lizards (harmless) and letting them free in the living room. Yesterday I went to the Royal Canberra Carnival (or the RCC) with Genny and Natasha. Me and Genny tried to throw balls into  bucket, while Natasha and my mom went on this ride where you get spun around really fast. Sadly, Genny and I failed miserably and won a small stuffed animal piglet as a consulation prize. Today, my family went to Tillabunker (IDK) and walked through a national park there. We saw Emus, Kangaroos, a lot of birds, Skinks (type of lizard), Blue-Tongued Lizards, Huge ants, and Red-Bellied Black Snakes. Red-Bellied Black Snakes are extremely lethal and poisonous so, well, you can imagine how I reacted. The worst part about seeing it (not in an exhibit or anything) was having a sign say, "WARNING! Snakes tend to be active in this area". That freaked me out. Later we took a walk through Koala Path or something like that, and right before we got in we saw a sign that said "BEWARE of European Wasps in this area!" and a little while on seeing a sign that said "Trees in this area survived the June ___ fire. Branches and Trees may fall unexpectadly. BE AWARE". Ya, I am not sure if seeing a koala (which we didn't) is worth the risk of being stung by European wasps, and being crushed by falling trees. Anyway, I am unhappy because I have to go back to school tomorrow but whatever.

-Abby the Awesome American Aussie

        Hey everybody! Yesterday, I had my first day of art club. It was fun, and the day before that, I had drama club. In drama club, we are doing the plays, Jack and teh Beanstalk, and Snow White and the seven dwarfs, although here, the dwarfs were retired horse jockeys... Anyway, I was searching the youtubez, and found this girl named iJustine again (who me and Fiona looked at before) and found that she is actually kind of weird. Also, people of McMastic, My brother, Baconator911 is sorry for the mean comments he left you. He knows you guys aren't "bi-curious" as he says. Tomorrow I am going over to Natasha's house for a sleepover. Natasha and Genny hate each other, which sux, because both of them are my frineds, and I like them both. Well, anyway whatever. I will have videos and pictures soon so make sure to check them out! Thanks!

-Abby the Awesome American Aussie

        Okay, I am not actually moving permanently to Sydney, but that is where I am right now. I got here last night around 10, and then we were all too hyper to go to sleep after a 3 hour drive, so we ordered room service, and then finally went to sleep. In the morning, we went to the Toronga Zoo, and fed giraffes, pet elephants, (And one even handed me and Jake one of their toys), saw a seal show (It was really funny!) and a bird show. Then, we took a water-taxi          (a boat) to lunch, and then after a 4 hour lunch (Thank you, Mom and Dad*) at my dad's friend's house, we went to our hotel for about 15 minutes, and then went to get meat pies. Meat Pies are an 'Aussie Thing'. They are basically a pie, but instead of being filled with apples, or blueberries, it is filled with meat; heance the name. After that, we went to the IMAX theatre (Aussie spelling) and saw Avatar in 3D. Personally, I laugh at all the people who got depressed when they saw that movie. "I will never get to experience the true beauty of Pandora!" So what? I am sorry that you fell into a deep deppression after seeing a movie. After the depressing movie, we were going to go back to the hotel, when this guy was juggling fire. Anyway, we stayed to watch, and this moron went up to the man, and tried to light his cigarette on the torches. He walked away after fliiping the man off, and then dropped the unlit cigarette on the rainy sidewalk, picked it back up, and put it back in his mouth. My favorite part, was when he said "Oh, isn't it a shame when cousins marry?" of the guy with the cigarette! When then gave him some Aussie Money, and walked away. Well, here I am now, watching the Olimpics, so I guess this is Good-Bye!

-Abby the Awesome American Aussie

*Sarcasm

        Hi! Today I bought a $10 tennis racket, and both of my brothers bought $300 ones! Surprisingly, my racket works really well! Me and my brother Matthew (14) had a pretty big debate on who should use the good computer. My argument was that my word document was saved on it, and Matthew's was that he wanted to play Spore and it was saved on that computer. In the end, we just decided that I get it for an hour, and then Mattew gets it for an hour. It worked out pretty well, and then after this, we are going to play tennis in our tennis court. Earliar today we played tennis, but I ended up hitting 4 out of 6 balls over the fence, and Matthew hit one over, but then we found one plus another one, but then I hit one over the fence again, so we had to play with 2 balls (THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID!!!). Anyway, I hope that I don't hit anymore balls over the fence. It's been raining here, but it is hot and humid... Today was nice though. That's it! Thanks!

-Abby the Awesome American Aussie

        Hey everyone! This is Abby (but you already know that). Today was my 3rd official day at school. Yesterday we had art class, and guess what song I heard on the radio? Well, actually, I don't know the name of it, but it was sung by our very own Mercedes! I was so excited, and I guess that Glee is here is Australia!!! I was pretty happy, but still a little dissapointed that I can't watch it in America. Today we had a RAP (religion and philosophy) lesson. We talked about the different religions, and almost all of them were christian except for me and Natasha, who are jewish/christian. Natasha's dad also works for the embassy too, so it's nice to have her in my class (she is American too!). Tomorrow I have chapel and I am kind of nervous, becuase we have to read from the Anglican bible, which I have never read from. I know that I will be fine, but it's kinda weird, because at our California public school, they don't teach religion. Jenny H is the only one so far who has left and idea for how to sign my name! So they rest of you better soon! So for now, I am going to use hers. Thanks you guys!

-Abby the awesome

          Today was my first real day of school. Monday was orientation where I met basically no one! But today was the real deal. By the way, Today (as I say) is Tuesday in case you're wondering. I so far have made two (kinda) friends. For more details about my friends, you can email me. (you know my email). I have never gone to an all-girl school, or any private school for that matter! But it's a lot more strict than our California public school. (Yes, I still call it our school, because I am still part of it). This morning we said prayer (2 actually) and then sang the Australian national anthem. As you know, I am not used to saying prayer (I was pretty embarrassed because I didn't know the words to the prayers or the national anthem!) Any of you Californians that are wondering (because I am sick of you asking me), the time difference here is: it is 5 hours earlier, the next day (ex: America: 6:24pm, Monday. Australia: 1:24pm, Tuesday.) So I don't want any more emails saying, "You're never on email!" or "What is the time difference?" Because I just answered those questions! Yes. So, that just about wraps up today's blog. Yes. By the way, today's date is February 2nd.I need a clever way to sign off each day's blog, so if you could go to the guest book and leave your funny or creative responses to that question (what should my signature line be?) Oh! Here's and example: Abby, The ruler of down under. Or something like that. Thatnks! For now I will sign,

-Abby, the ruler of the underworld.