We have been told by several people since moving here that there are two Australian movies that we must see to gain insight into the culture. The first is called "Cracker Jack" and the second is called "The Castle".
We watched Cracker Jack last weekend. It is about a lawn bowling club and the troubles they are going through as an old club. It is not the best we have seen but was interesting to a degree, once again it is about lawn blowing : -) There wasn't anything too bad in this movie, just some language and an implied sexual relationship.
The second, The Castle, we have not seen yet and will let you know how it is once we see it. Every time we go to the movie store it is out, so it might be awhile. We can't say if there is anything bad in this one seeing as though we haven't seen it ourselves yet.
I don't know if these can be found in the US but it might be fun for some of you to watch them, just to hear some of their sayings and to see some of the cultural differences.
On another note, it took us an hour to travel 10km last night. We didn't get home from our friends house until 12:30am. We had the flat of all flat tyres and then we had the flat of all flat spare tyres. UGGGGGGG, flat tyres are very annoying...but even more so when it is almost midnight and you have a baby in the car. Oh and the fact that the jack didn't work was not helping the situation. Thankfully our friends were not in bed yet and came to our rescue!
And another note, baby showers are not a thing to do here. In fact wedding showers have just become popular in the past ten years. Don't look for baby registries because they don't exist. Funny, at least to me that this hasn't caught on. I mean, it is pretty expensive to outfit yourself for a new baby. You would think people would just naturally come up with the idea so that they would not have to spend a million dollars buying baby things. Plus, it is just another way to have a party of some sort and that is fun!
I had an ultrasound on Thursday to see if the guesstimated due date was correct. Looks like the little bub will be coming into the world sometime at the end of November, around Thanksgiving. This makes me a little sad because there is a good possibility that I might be in the hospital on Thanksgiving which means there is a good possibility that I might miss out on some very good food. Instead of being with friends I may have to eat food at a hospital who does not know what Thanksgiving is, let alone celebrate it, let alone give the patients something that resembles turkey and cranberries. Am I being a tad selfish? Perhaps, but I really like cranberries:-)
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Maybe this baby's timing will be like Joe was. I came home from the hospital on Thanksgiving day. I went directly to my folks and had a great dinner without having to do any of the work. Sounds like great timing to me!!!! You can always celebrate another day. After all, Thanksgiving is not celebrated there on that day anyway.
I watched the castle with some aussies in Hungary, it's pretty good. But you'll probably get it more being in australia
oh my... we saw part of "The Castle" with the Plukies and it was...interesting. They turned it off half way through, saying we just wouldn't get it. I think they were right. :-P
Hopefully you'll still be able to celebrate Thanksgiving - maybe with baby #2! Um, are we Americans going to stick together during these important, but overlooked by Aussies, holidays? What about 4th of July!?
shoot for the 24th o' november, meggie. that's my birthday, and i sure could use another cool lil tyke to celebrate with me :) plus you're in the clear from being on Thanksgiving. you can go in the hospital and have a full belly of turkey and cranberries on Friday afterward and have the baby. that would rock. the best of both worlds!
Hi...Im a relative of sort..Know Megans Dad her Grandma and knew her mother and grandmother.....Real proud to see your website.......Alta Jane (Barker) Bryant of Sarasota Fl.
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