An interesting thing about the Cayman Islands is that they are more of a "melting pot" than Canada. Every nationality celebrates their country's day, there are themed bars and restaurants for many nations, and everyone you talk to has an accent from somewhere. This past weekend was Australia Day. It was actually on Tuesday, but all of the festivities were held on Saturday at the pool bar of the hotel we stayed in upon our arrival (the one that charged us $80 for two unanswered 1-800 phone calls... but that is a different entry). Our Aussie friends invited us out, with promises that noone would have to eat Vegimite. It was pretty busy, and the Australian top 100 songs were played over the speakers-Land Down Under being replayed several times. There were several team sports, one that did include the dreaded vegemite, but luckily neither Blake nor myself had to eat it. At the end of the night we headed to Wendy's for a very North American $0.99 hamburger to wash away the taste of Foster's Beer, which oddly enough, none of the Aussie's had ever had. Oh well.
On another note, Blake and I are ecstatic to announce that we have a new fridge! After a prior entry about my good friend Louis fixing the stinky flooding fridge, it promptly broke again, this time covering most of the floor with Freon juice from the ice-maker. Having had enough, I called up our landlady and complained until she bought us a new one! It may not seem like big news to you, but we nearly cried tears of joy while dumping out the bowls of baking soda we had been using to try and clear out the nasty funk smell of the old fridge. As I write I am looking at it in all of its sparkly white beauty. It matches our oven, it matches our cupboards, right now it even matches my shirt. I think I am in love.
Pictured above: the gang celebrating Aussie Day; Our Aussie teamates (and some non-Aussie teammates) during the beer drinking challenge
What the heck is a vegemite? and how horrible can it possibly be??! I hope you party harder when it comes to Canada Day, I'll be making darn sure that you are representing over there! Don't you forget where your from! Hahaaa
ReplyDeletemy friend Rachel, who is Australian, told me that Fosters beer is gross and no one drinks it lol. She said to me "if that's what my country is known for, that's insulting lol". Vegemite is like the equivalent of peanut butter for us, I guess. They eat it on EVERYTHING == but its very salty so you have to spread it very thinly. I've had it before, it doesn't taste terrible but its not really my cup of tea. I like things you can spread on thickly, which I guess is why they use vegemite and butter, or vegemite and sometihng else. Honestly, you can't taste much of anything but salty stuff because its such a small amount you put on.
ReplyDeleteCongrats on the new fridge, that's exciting!!