Last but not least...

OK, a couple more things to tie up the loose ends of our trip...first of all, you can look here to view additional pics from our trip. There are just too many to post! Erin is still updating captions on the photos. Go here: http://picasaweb.google.com/erinbrown5

If you're a first or 2nd time reader...please note that our blog is listed from newest to oldest...so you'll have to read it from the last blog to the most recent posted!

View the pics we've posted on the blog at: http://traveloutback.blogspot.com

We're sure you all have questions about our trip...so hopefully this blog will answer some of them!

In our silly, giddyness we've come up with our own personal soundtrack...it's just a list of songs that we heard frequently, songs that reminded us of something, songs that were stuck in our heads...or just songs that just fit the moment!

Our Soundtrack:
- Cyclone….da da da da
- Sandstorm (Darude)
- Les Poissons! (Little Mermaid)
- Wild Strawberries!
- Jurassic Park
- Pictures (Sneaky Sound System)
- Land Down Under (Men at Work)
- Gimmie Gimmie More (Brittany Spears)
- Part of your world (Little Mermaid)
- Hakunna Matata (Lion King)
- Can you feel the love tonight (Lion King)
- Leaving on a Jet Plane
- I would walk 500 miles
- Kookaburra Song
- Indiana Jones Theme
- Like the Deserts Miss the Rain (Like the deserts Listerine...)

There were so many things different about Oz...good and bad! Here's a list we created (while sitting in the rain at the train station on the Gold Coast) of things we loved and hated!

Things We Love:
- Coopers Beer
- Aussie coffee made with a plunger
- Aunt Debie and Uncle Michael
- Aussie boys
- The “tomato sauce” and bbq packets
- Aussie Chocolate
- Aussie Bread
- Mars Bars
- Getting plenty of Avocado!
- Kangaroos and Koalas
- Hot zoo keepers with pretty eyes
- Asian massages
- Playing in the rain
- Foot petals
- OUR BLOG!
- Crab Sticks!
- Dave's Cooking
- Kebabs
- Alicia & Dave
- Adding theme songs to our trip.
- Iced coffees (made with ice cream!)
- Chips and dip
- Eating “bugs”

Things we DON’T Love:
- crazy Aussie cab drivers
- Car Sick, Sea Sick…etc
- Round abouts that go the wrong way
- Driving on the wrong side of the road
- Cockroaches
- Spiders
- Cold showers
- Rain
- Coins instead of dollar bills
- Not knowing what money we have (coins)
- Aussie adaptors that don’t work
- High HEELS!
- Flies!!
- Sunburn
- Flat Sodas
- Sore calves

Things we have learned in the land of OZ:
- “How ya goin’?” = how are you doing
- “Toilet” = restroom
- "Prawns" = Shrimp
- "Tomato Sauce" = Ketchup
- The "lift" = Elevator
- “Rubbish” =trash
- “Don’t DRINK Driving”
- That is “cool as”
- "Pissed" = drunk
- "Wobbley boot" = drunk
- "Rubber" = wet suit
- "Chemist" = pharmacy
- "Chewy" = gum
- "Budgy smugglers" = speedos
- Very easy ice in drinks
- “Notes” = bills
- Harbour, Centre etc.
- "Flat white" = coffee with milk
- "Capsicum" = peppers
- Light beer = less alcohol
- No such thing as just a “cheese pizza”
- Smallest pizza EVER! Lrg=sml
- Everyone here is BEAUTIFUL
- Chicken flavored chips.
- “Heeps” = a lot
- "Twisties" = cheetos
- "Kebabs" = wraps
- "Bogans" = white trash

We believe this is the final blog...as Alicia is back in New York already and Melissa will be back in North Carolina by morning.

We Heart Australia....

Back to the real world...UGH!