Weekend festivities!!

Survived our first weekend in Australia!!

In case you guys were wondering, it's true what they say, Australians are beautiful people. Although if you ask mike he'll say it's only bc they have accents. Karina and I termed it "accent goggles." kinda like beer goggles...get it?!? And ear candy instead of eye candy. Accent goggles or not, I'm ok with it. Mom called this morning and the Australian concierge guy answered...when I got on the phone mom's first words were "wow, that accent is dreamy, you guys are in trouble." gotta love her!

Soooo Friday night we met up with our friends from Fiji who were in Sydney for a few days and they came to our hostel to pregame because drinks in Sydney are outrageous. We taught them the games asshole and bullshit ...to all you parents, theyre card games!! And they taught us Australian drinking songs that have words that I won't repeat here but involve a lot of skulling!

Then we went out to meet up with some of our friend's friends and happened to bump into this guy we nicknamed "chatty" or "canada" from Fiji on the street...what are the odds! (karina here- he was the exact opposite of the cool Canadians we met in Peru!!) Turns out he's still living up to his nickname and yapped our ears off the entire night so we happily ditched him somewhere at our second bar. Very weird.

Ok I apologize in advance for anything racist that goes on in this post but the Australians are Sooo racist, so when in Rome! Quote from a friend: "we werent born racist, we became this way!!" Our friends took us to this cool club on one of the harbors (with a $25 cover!!) where we thought we were gonna dance the night away. However. Turns out it was Asian central!! To all our Asian friends we love you but this was the most homogeneous club we have ever seen! At least we were able to find each other easily! Although I do have to say, even the Asians here are gorgeous. And we met an Armenian Australian! Well actually he kept changing his mind...first he was Syrian, then he was Armenian, then his grandma was Armenian but he was Syrian...who knows. Blame it on the ear candy. Leave it to mike to bring up political strife while dancing at a club...upon learning that he was Syrian, mike went up to him and said "I just wanted to say I'm sorry for all the problems in your country." so don't worry parents, as long as we keep mike around we will definitely be coming home without Australian husbands!!

To all you PC girls out there (and probably northeastern girls!) I feel like its freshman year all over again walking around the streets with our flasks, it's great! And eating crappy food...Mom and dad, don't worry we're going grocery shopping tmrw for vegetables.

Also. Bars stay open til 4am at least, some all night. Way different than Boston. Reminds me of our mexican and European nights out...we need to work on our stamina so we stop wanting to fall asleep at clubs.

Saturday it pourrred so we went to see a movie at the worlds largest IMAX!! We saw a film about rescuing baby elephants and monkeys in the wild...so cute! Unfortunately, it wasnt that much bigger than a regular IMAX I don't think and the prices were about 3 times as much. We were totally suckered in...good marketing imax people.

After the movie we wandered around the city some more. Went to Cockle Bay Wharf, Darlinghurst Harbor, the Rocks (really old, nice neighborhood), and then Chinatown for dinner. Great shopping here, too bad we only have one backpack and no money.

Saturday night we saw our friends again. Except this time we went to a different club that had lots of Australians. Strangely enough, they love our American accents! But they couldn't understand us...when we said "i have to find my friend," they said what?!?! But when we said "find my mate!! They said "oh ok!" and when we said we have to go to the bathroom they didnt understand, but when we yelled "toilet!!!" they got us. Although apparently karina and I look like we're 18 because all these people kept coming up to us and saying dance with my friend! It's his 18th bday!! No thank you. The drinking age in Australia is 18 so I guess that's why the clubs are all full of 18 year olds. When I was 18 I'm pretty sure I couldn't afford $25 cover at bars! Mike couldn't handle the fun so he went home early! Youngster ...

Well that was our Saturday night...roamed around for a while, saw the sites...this city never sleeps, we walked home at 5am and there were still people everywhere! Side note: we feel really safe here. There are always people around and everything is lit up and there are taxis all over whenever we need them.

Sunday we took a free waking tour around the city and learned about the history of Australia and the aboriginals and boomerangs! Our guide told us all the cheap spots to eat, drink and play. Should be a good last few days!