Advent Calendar & The Castle Fiascos

Well Happy December 1st. Officially the First day of Summer!!! They do their "seasons" a bit different down here. Summer felt more like winter today. It only got to about 22 C, and it rained for a couple minutes in the morning. Brrrr..... but that still didn't stop me from heading to the beach where I used my body board for the first time. Thankfully! as the surf was extraordinary today and I would have been swept away.

To celebrate the Christmas season (Still doesn't feel right having Christmas in Summer), I decided to purchase an Advent Calendar. I took it home, and peeled open #1.


There I found, no chocolate, but a circular candy cane-like candy. Wtf?? I open #2, same thing. Where's the chocolate.


I then rip open the whole thing, and these circular candies are all the SAME. The only difference is they changed the colours in each of the rows. Where's the chocolate clovers, and bells, and snowflakes, and chimneys, and reindeer, and snowman, and sled and Santa (on the 24th of course) ..... Maybe they think the chocolate will melt in the heat?


Needless to say, the Advent calendar didn't last too long .......


This evening, I attempted to watch an Australian classic by the name, The Castle. I remember a friend of mine telling me about this movie when i was 15. He kept going on and on and on about how funny it was "Tell him he's Dreaming". I have always searched for it back home, but never came across it. Now it is mine!!! I purchased it yesterday. Time to open it up and start watching the hilarity.


Hmmmm, what's that funny red thing on the side ..... never seen that before.

Oh, no worries, it's just a fancy Australian DVD locking instrument that prevents you from opening the DVD. Great!!!! Time to bring out the knife!

Scratches build character and tell stories.

Good as new!!! Here's the crazy red thing. It's actually very large, and blocks the "Push In" part of the case that releases the CD. More jimmying to get that out. The DVD took a couple blows from the knife, but was still in working order.

Because I cut up the case, I found a rather interesting discovery on the back of the cover. It was a Certificate of Registration and Pedigree for dogs...... Well you know how much paper costs these days.... they gotta recycle
That's all for today .... another cold day tomorrow. It's only supposed to be 23 Celsius .... :*(

By the way, I didn't actually watch The Castle as it took too long to get the case open, but will comment on the movie when I do!

Red Bull Air Race

Today I biked to South Perth where the Red Bull Air Race was happening. It was the final stop in the World Tour of Red Bull racing. Other sites include: USA, Brazil, Portugal, UK, Hungary, and Switzerland. It was pretty crazy. The pilots are absolutely amazing. I have trouble dribbling a soccer ball around cones, and these guys were flipping, twisting, and turning at 400 km/hr. My favourite part was when they would freeze the plane going straight up, and then do about 10 spins. Very cool. The weather continues to get nicer and nicer. It was Sunny sunny sunny and got up to about 30 C. I went through a lot of water on the bike! The rest of the weeks forecast is 31, 25, 24, 24, 25, 27, 28. Luckily I go to Meekatharra during those 24C days. Good to miss that cold spell.

It's beginning to look a lot like summer

Another lazy Saturday spent at the beach with friends. The temperature got up to 29 C today, although it seemed a bit cooler at the beach with the breeze. I decided to jump in fully for the first time. The water is still a bit chilly, but once you are in it is amazing. It's hard to come out! But then the Shark Patrol flies overhead and you remember about all the hidden dangers. Eeek!

The highlight of the day was when I headed off to go to the toilet .... 3 guys just start yelling and cursing at me, asking where I'm from. I thought it was due to my blinding white skin. But nope, it was due to the NZ Rugby shirt I had on. Turned out they were Kiwis, and were very ashamed of the team. When they found out I was from BC, a beer was in my hand (one of them spent 6 months at whistler). Then I joined in some rugby tossing and watched as one of them made a pass at every girl on the beach. It was fun times. I'll keep you updated if I run into them again!

I don't see any sharks ..... Shark Patrol must be doing their job