Becky & Becca in Australia: May 2010

It's been over 3 weeks since our last blog post! We know everyone has been DYING without us, so we are here to give you an update on our aussie lives.

Since our last post we have been very busy making the most of our time left. Currently, we have 43 days left in Sydney. CRAZY!

Recently we have...

-May 4th: Celebrated Star Wars Day- MAY the FORTH be with you...hahaha we had a marathon and watched 3 Star Wars movies, it was a fantastic, nerdy night.

-May 5th: CINCO DE MAYO!! We introduced the holiday to our Australian friends! We grabbed some margaritas at our go to easy mexican food restaurant, Mad Mex. This was the first time Cameron or Spida either had margaritas, and the quickly fell in love with them. The rest of the boys joined in the fun with either Coronas or tequila. I think they will make celebrating an annual tradition :)

-May 6th: Girls Night! Our dorm has a girl's night out in Chatswood at Chelsea bar and we enjoyed a drink out with the girls! We were back at 10:30 exhausted but had a lot of fun enjoying a "passionistic" drink :)

-May 8th: Sydney was having beautiful weather and so we ventured to the city to explore some markets! We started off at Paddy's Market which is a HUGE flea market type place. We then walked around the city and grabbed some Macca's (McDonalds) for a quick and healthy (ha) lunch. Becca experience her first Cupcakes on Pitt Street experience! We caught a train to historic area called The Rocks to explore another market. After that, we walked to Circular Quay to walk around the Opera House. We caught a ferry from one side of the harbour to the other to see Luna Park before heading back to our college. That night, we got all dressed up and made use of our public transport day passes by going back out to the city to help celebrate a friend's birthday. It was a fun night getting to enjoy great company.

-May 10th: May 14th was a PERFECT day. We got up and went to breakfast at our dorm to find out they had made hashbrowns which is a rare but glorious occasion. Becca checked the mail for her highly anticipated package including NEW MOON! The package had arrived and naturally freaked out with Becky about looking forward to watching the movie that night. Becky ended up having a package arrive on the exact same day which shockingly included New Moon as well!! How hilarious is that?! Both of us got packages with New Moon in it the same day?! We had been planning a dinner at Inferno, which is a pizza and pasta place that has an all-you-can-eat deal on Mondays. We had gathered a group together to eat the amazing pizza and pasta with us. The 6 of us ate until we literally couldn't eat anymore. We had created a tally system for how much we had ate and had all marked our amount on our arms through out the 2 hour meal. After stuffing our faces, we went back to our dorm to watch the "Servant Night" performances. Servant Night is a night at our dorm that was created to raise money for the annual ball at our dorm. Groups are formed and perform a routine they created before being auctioned off to people at our dorm. Groups of people pitch in money to buy the groups to be their servants for a day. Lots of money was made and we were definitely looking forward to seeing "Servant Day" on Thursday. We finally got to watch New Moon that night and had smiles on our faces the whole time. It was worth the wait.

May 13th: Servant Day!! So glad we were here to experience this day! The groups had to do all sort of hilarious things during the day but the highlights included guys dressing up as girls to go shopping at the mall, and guys having to jump into the pond at our school. That night, they were all dressed up in costumes that their "masters" picked out for them. The funniest looking were a group of guys who had dyed their bodies with blue dye to look like Avatars.

May 15th: We finally got our highly anticipated "Family Meal" at McDonald's. It included 2 Big Macs, 2 cheeseburgers, 4 small fries, a 6 pack chicken nugget, and 4 drinks. All for $20...which is a great deal here!! We ended up killing the meal in 10 minutes. Thats right, the whole thing in 10 minutes. Not sure if that's something to be proud of but it was on our to do list. We will definitely be working out tomorrow. We got to go watch an AFL (Australian Football League) game that one of our friends was playing in before relaxing and watching Sherlock Holmes.

We've been busy but the time in between all those events was spent sleeping, eating, studying, homework, working out, and watching movies.

We are looking forward to being able to bake tomorrow, and seeing a movie out with some friends on Monday! Somethings on our "to do" list (besides school stuff) is going on the ferris wheel at Luna Park, going on a Pirate Cruise, going to a Rugby game, and going to an AFL game! We have lots of schoolwork and fun in front of us and know these 43 days are going to pass so quickly!!

Shout out to the beautiful PATTI LONG who will be come our way so soon! Excited to see her!!

Hope all is well and look forward to hearing from you all :)