Some Every Day Stuff

Today is a public holiday in Australia, Anzac Day.  It is celebrated on April 25th every year and it honors the members of the Australia New Zealand Army Corps who fought in the battle of Gallipoli in WWI.  From my understanding, it is a day to also honor all veterans.  There was a dawn service this morning at 4:30am that we skipped out on.

We are using the day to catch up on some stuff around the house and relax a bit before all of our ministries pick back up this week.  I also thought we could tell you about some every day stuff that we've been up to.

First, I celebrated my first birthday in Australia.  I can't think of any birthday traditions that are different here than the US.  After they sing "Happy Birthday" they yell out "hip, hip, hooray!" 3 times...but that's about it.  On my actual birthday we were with the youth camping.  They were all very sweet and sang me happy birthday.  Sean and I decided to go out and celebrate on Saturday.  It turned out to be quite the experience.  Fact about Sean and Sam: We LOVE Mexican food!!  We heard about a Mexican restaurant a while ago, so we decided to try it out.  We looked up their website and it said that we needed to make reservations.  Sean called and they said they didn't have any openings until 7 or 7:30.  We were hoping to go earlier so we were kind of bummed...but the lady came back and said that she just had an opening and she thought they could squeeze us in at 6.  We were excited and said we would take it.  This is what the restaurant looked like when we showed up...  

Notice that there is NO ONE in the restaurant.  There was another room about the same size (about 10 tables) and there was a 1 couple there.  We thought it was so funny that they could "squeeze" us in at 6.  Then they took us to our table and it looked like the picture on the left.  Do you like the green thing that hung down in front of our table?  Random right?  This also gave us a good laugh.  The rest of the night continued to be entertaining.  I don't know if it's Australians in general or just the restaurant, but they were pretty confused about the difference between Mexican and Country Western.  They were playing old Country Western movies throughout dinner and playing Country music on the radio.  Also, have you ever been to a restaurant where they take your order at the table, but you have to go up to the bar and order your drinks??  Even water and coke?  We never had!  The food was pretty good.  I got my usual quesadillas and Sean got enchiladas.  Mine was good, but Sean said that his tasted a little bit like mac n' cheese.  Lucky for him, he really likes mac n' cheese!

The yummy quesadillas and chips!!

Another fact about us: We Love playing games!  We recently decided that we wanted the game Scrabble, but we're too cheap to go out and by the game because games are expensive!  So we decided to make our own.  What do you think??  Someone gave us some black and white tiles, then we used matte board to make the board and our friends also had little holders for us.  We've really enjoyed playing!

Well, that's enough for today. Hope everyone is doing well back home!  We love and miss you all!!