Sunday in Freo (Fremantle)

Back from Fremantle...a small town next to Perth with beautiful beaches, and a plethora of restaurants. We walked around today with a large group of people whom we have met from ohio, kentucky, washington, and minnesota. We had lunch at a cute cafe called the Fremantle Bakehouse. It is one of the many restaurants and cafes down the "cappuchino strip" in Fremantle. We also walked along the beach and went to Target!! Woohoo...but it is a VERY expensive version of Target...strange.

This morning I had a very lovely breakfast with Kelsey and my three guy roommates. It was very cool to sit out in our living room and chat with them and watch the Australian Today show :) They are so nice and it is cool to hear about where they have come from and what they are doing here at Murdoch.

Yesterday we went to the Murdoch International office at 10am expecting to go on a tour of Murdoch. They then told us that we were going to do a scavenger hunt "Amazing Race" style. We were broken up into teams. I was with Keith from Miami and three girls (whose names I won't even try to spell correctly) from Singapore. They were quiet at first, but once we got going on our hunt they were very sweet and we ran around Murdoch finding various buildings and doing various tasks such as making paper cranes, doing handstands, and having a conversation in our best Aussie accents. It was exhausting but very fun and at the end we were neck and neck with Kelsey's team who had a guy from South Africa who was crazy (their team ran the whole thing), but they still got third place to our second!! We then had snags on the barbie (ie sausage on the grill)..it was delicious! I met many girls from Germany during lunch and attempted a few words of German with them. One of the girls is going to be in my digital media and photo class and is very sweet!

After the hunt we went back to k-mart and the grocery and spent obscene amounts of money to get groceries...fresh food is very expensive here! I made dinner for Kelsey and Danielle (chicken stir-fry and rice..about the only meal I know how to cook) and it came out pretty good!! Then the jet lag took over and bed time was very early.

Tomorrow is Monday and there are no plans made as of know..so we shall see what sort of adventures turn up. Signing off from Australia....in all it's sunny bliss :)