Lord of the Flies

In addition to the Spiders we now have to deal with these horrible little black flies now that it's warming up. They drive me insane! They play cards on your nose, try to search for gold in your nostrils, try to get a drink from your eyeballs, go on searching expeditions on your forehead, cheeks or neck and duck for cover from the wind in your ear! It's repulsive! The more you chase them with your hands the more vigilant they get. Apparently you have to blow at them with your mouth because they hate wind and if that doesn't work you supposedly just get used to them and they don't bother you much. WHATEVER! I can't stand them. They camp out on your back in a huge colony and they take turn with their enemy attack! It's so yuck! I absolutley hate it when one gets trapped in between my sunglasses and my eyeball and they freak out buzzing back and forth between my eye and lens! Can you imagine! Well I don't have to it happens at least every hour! Yeesh! But I guess that's just one of the set backs. Everything else is good. It feels like Cali here to be honest. The Golden wheat fields and the bright green grape leaves not to mention all the snails and lady bugs and pincher bugs. I haven't seen so many since I moved from Cali. It's because of the Golden Fields and Green leaves that you see everywhere that Australias colors are Green and Gold it's kind of cool ~ they are the colors of the greatest Football team EVER! So I guess it's just as well! Go Pack Go!

I feel really comfortable here in Robinvale as one the town has my sisters name in it and the street names are from all of my favorite people... Ronald, Robin, George, Morris, and David! So needless to say I feel very safe and welcome here not that street signs are my only rule of thumb but it helps. :)

So we have a new president... we didn't get to vote but apparently it wouldn't have mattered anyway. And can you believe it our ballots came in the day after the election! Seriously! We are keeping them because they have historical significance so that's kind of cool. Would have really liked to vote though. I'm not a very political person but I guess we will see what happens with all of this now. It's interesting being here during all of this though. The election was a really big deal to the rest of the world. People here had rallies and everything it was very interesting and they can't even vote but it was important to them to see the outcome because as they all say here "America sneezes and the rest of the world catches Pnemonia." I hope that Obama lives up to the expectations that the rest of the world has placed on him because they are looking to all be saved by his acceptance into the White House. I would have prefered Palin but she wasn't running for President so I guess we will have to see what happens in 2012... Here's hoping!