And on to other bugs

From cockroaches to moths! This little guy is perched on the doorjam going into the kitchen and has been there all day. We think he's rather pretty so are leaving him alone.




We have a new favorite Australian food: Weis's Fruit Bars! They come in peach, raspberry, mango and mango/macadamia. It's a "frozen confection" of a strip of frozen fruit and a thin strip of vanilla ice cream right next to it. (For those of you who knew Fruitful's fruit bars, they're just as good...if not better!!)

The weather has finally been cooling off here--we actually had to go buy a blanket last weekend!! It's supposed to be really cool on Sunday, so we're going to head back to Manly in hopes that the beaches will be fairly empty. We promise to take our cameras along this time so we can provide a true report.

Just to totally mess with your minds...So, it's that time of year to change your clocks, right? And now that you've all finally figured out what time we are here, we're going to confuse you! While it's spring in the US, you're springing forward...but here it's FALL and so we're FALLING back. How nuts is that?! Officially we'll be getting closer together in time but it actually will just make it more difficult to reach people. Hm...

Fall break is coming up soon--we get the week after Easter off. Mike has found us a lovely B&B in the middle of the Blue Mountains so we're going to escape the city for a few days. Apparently we'll be close to "Blackheath's Grand Canyon" (whatever that means? We'll find out!!) and the Three Sisters, which is one of Australia's famous rock formations. The B&B also promises that we can feed the wild birds every morning. I know what Mike will be doing! Chirp!

~Ruth Ann

P.S. Kacky: "Con" is short for "Conservatorium." Australians like to shorten whatever they possibly can, and articles are unnecessary in gramatical contexts. For example, "attending a university" is more affectionately known as "going to uni." :-)