Cereal Blog #4 - Snap, Crackle, Pop!

Kellogg's Rice Bubbles!!! Wait a minute, back it up here .... beep, beep, beep .... Rice Bubbles???? What the *bleep*? What happened to the Krispies? Are Australians not educated enough to understand what a krispie is? so they have to call them bubbles? The characters are the same [Snap, Crackle, and Pop], the box is the same, the cereal is exactly the same [snaps, crackles, and pops when you add milk], so why the name change?

Now to the even more important part. Do they have Rice Bubbles Squares? Is that what they call them? Rice Bubbles Treats? Looking for some confirmation from the Aussies here. It just doesn't roll off the tongue very well. I'm not impressed....

ps I did win the Mini XBox Game .... SCORE!

Life Update: I successfully passed first-aid today getting 19/20 on my test. The guy beside me yelled at me as he admitted copying off me for the question I got wrong. Highlights include: Getting the most action all trip ..... from a dummy ;), Pretending to have Epilepsy, having 4 of 4 people pick out I'm Canadian and not American!, and all the awkward moments where you have to touch [be touched by] complete strangers while you are pretending to be in drama class.

Back to Earth, then off to Perth

Well, I've now been back for a couple days after a few weeks of mayhem. First there was my sister's wedding in Vancouver on July 28th. Then ma famille voyagent a la Quebec City for a 2nd wedding reception. Pictures of the the extravaganza can be found at http://picasaweb.google.com/jonboyd23 .

Below is a list of some of the major Quebec events:

• Crazy Marble sized hailstorm as we walked through Old Town Quebec (Pic, Video)
• The nomination of Jesus Take The Wheel by Carrie Underwood being the official theme song of the trip. (People drive like maniacs in Quebec)
• A spontaneous 1 minute monalogue entitled "What's the deal with every street being called Rue??? Rue this, and Rue that". Spawned by the issues of only French Radio.
• To relieve the French radio issues. The five in the van agreed on only one performer .... Bryan Adams!!!! (pic of cd1, pic of cd2, pic of exictement 1 & 2
• Major Dissues (but that's just between the Isosceles of Secrets - 2 sides serious, 1 side smile)
• Tim Hortons Issues - Major Disaster at the one at Pierre E Trudeau Airport in Montreal (pic1, pic2, pic3). Also, Breakfast Sandwiches are called "Sandwich Timatin". This lead to a humorous order by myself. Tim = Tim Hortons, Matin = Morning. Hence the Timatin, works well.
• Getting caught with my pants down .... literally. Just between Valentina and me ;)
• Making an English Future Shop sale to a girl looking for a Mac with her dad. JP played the technical products specialist, Matt played the internet deals researcher, and I pulled off the casual conversationalist. It was the perfect trio (not quite Isosceles of Secret material though). The Future Shop employees weren't too impressed when we got her a major deal + an Ipod Nano.
• Valentina exiting the Christmas store with a big smile. Uptight guy "What kind of idiot shops for Christmas in July?" ..... "What kind of idiot doesn't know the month is August". (pic of sad Valentina)
• The Sleeping Game ..... a game that's only rule is: there are no rules! Did someone say Freeze???
• The official slogan of my sister's wedding was: "The Chicken Dance was the Wedding", as it was the one song that had everyone going wild. In Quebec we watched a show that took the chicken dance to a whole new level. Ever heard of Chicken Sprints or Chicken Unicorn Diet Coke.

Well that's some of the highlights of the Quebec trip. Overall it was a laugh-tastic time for all. I'm down to less than 5 days til I fly off to Perth. I'm getting very excited.