Grapes of Wrath!!!

Wine grapes and spiders aren't a great combination! The wine grapes aren't the problem it's the spiders that creep me out!!!! If you don't know this already I am absolutely petrified of spiders. There is nothing cute or endering or fun about the creatures I can't STAND THEM!!! You can get a play by play of the whole thing if you go to Danielle's Blog www.livingthedreamintheoutback.blogspot.com ~ at any rate besides the spiders we are in a pretty cool set up. Living at a really cool house during the week of work, good food, good company and great experiences. Everywhere we go people want to show us amazing things and really educate us on what they do and all that goes into it. It's great! We even got shear a bit of a sheep it was so fun. One day we will have to upload some pics because we have some great shots. It's beautiful out here and there is just so much to see. Much different landscape than the outback and when I'm not sneezing from hay fever or peering through teared up eyes it really is just amazing and gorgeous! :) Australians are very trusting that or we look like trustworthy yanks because it seems everywhere we go we stay for one night and then the next night everyone has to leave for one reason or another. So we are either house sitting and come and go as we please or we have the place to ourselves for the night and just relax and veg like we are sitting at home. It's really nice because after a while chit chat to fill the silence gets a bit old. It's sweet but I hate it when people feel they need to entertain us all the time. I feel bad for them and sometimes I just like the peace and quiet. So house sitting is fine by me!!! :)

We are officially 17 hours into the future due to your fall back and our spring forward! Crazy stuff!

During all this house sitting and surfing the channels Danielle and I have grown to love a new sport. International Rules!!! It's a mix of Gailic Football and Australian Rules Football! They come together each year and change up the rules so that one team doesn't have the advantage and they play this amazing fast paces full on game. It's hard to explain but you can score 3 different ways with 4 goals and it combines soccer, rugby, volleyball and basketball in the most interesting way. You should look it up I know there are some youtube clips of it. If you like sports I think this will entertain you. Ireland beat Australia this year but not by a huge margine. Both tests were very close and intense. I wish I could watch more but it's sadly over. As most sproting events are coming to a close. We watch the Rugby League World Cup round against Australia and New Zealand the other night and it was very interesting as their Rugby Leauge Anthom is Hero... by Bette Midler... hahahahaha I know you are laughing now as Danielle and I just looked at eachother and busted a gut over the whole thing. It was the most interesting rendition not to mention it's RUGBY!!! Bette has no place in Rugby! I love the lady and her songs but come one give me some pump you up music and get this party started type stuff not HERO! hahahaha we had a good laugh! We did however get to see the Haka and that was brilliant. Too bad it didn't help them out a little more. They were slaughtered by Australia ~ not even a close match. You should youtube the Haka as well it's so amazing! I love the Moari people. They really are a beautiful and amazing race.

Well it's almost election day and we sadly cannot vote. We were silly (for lack of a better word) and didn't figure out all the stuff with the embasy before we left and when we were without internet in the outback we thought we had time but alas we ran out of every option and so we go uncounted in this election. We are sad and disappointed. It's most upsetting. So please feel free to email us and tell us what neglectful Americans we have become and make sure to let us know who wins.

Well I miut sign off now as I am now depressed and am going to go drown my sorrows in ice cream and a brownie.