Goodbye Canada! Hello Australia!

so I'm home...!!!!!!  and as always there's a song for my mood right now...(even though its about america i find it kind of appropriate for my home too...)...

and so my time in Canada is over for this year!! and I already miss it. It is quite confronting to have your heart torn in two between two countries... it's like I live between two worlds... one my home country and the other the home country of my dear Benjamin.. in both I have family & friends who are dear to me... and yet these worlds will always exist side-by-side and never combined together.... but big sigh, I should stop feeling sorry for myself as I'm sure there are much worse problems in the world. and plus I'll be going back next year September... which doesn't actually solve any problems since then I'll be saying goodbye to Australia for at least A WHOLE YEAR!!! sniff sniff..... ok, that's really enough. Another way to look at it is that unlike millions around the globe who suffer in their homelands, I have not one but TWO amazing countries where I can call home and can live in freedom and prosperity and comfort with loved ones nearby. God's blessings are rich indeed!!

Canada.... so far....

So two weeks into it!!! My time here is nearly 1/3 of the way over and I can't believe it!!! I've had so much fun and it feels like I've been here forever... and a bit unreal that I'll be going home in another 4 weeks....eeeek..... though of course I miss you all and a little tear even came to my eye the other night (just a little one mind) when I thought of how far away you all are and how someday I might have to live with that reality... though of course that's all far in the future and there's no point worrying about what may be or may not be... 


so maybe the tear was more to do with the fact that I only had 4 hours sleep the night before due to a late night (1am) for Rosanne's graduation and then an early morning (5am) to go trucking to Edmonton.... after which of course I hit the mall with my beloved and got to shoot a 9mm Glock pistol at the shooting range... guess who's idea that was... haha but it was fun.... though I have no particular desire to ever own a pistol.... it was a little too much power for me... though of course the beloved has other ideas... so my challenge is now to convince him that life will continue without owning a pistol..... hmmm.... 


and yesterday was canada day so today we had a public holiday and had a community bbq breakfast with pancakes, bacon and sausages and lots of coffee (no eggs or bread... that was slightly weird... or tea actually - Canadians don't believe in tea it seems...) and then a church picnic for lunch which was a lot of fun... played ultimate frisbee (which I was pathetic at), soccer (which I was reasonably able at) and then baseball (which I conceded defeat at and sat out and didn't try....)... weird game I tell you!!!! and then of course when we got home guess what we had to do...... yup you guessed dear benjamin wanted to shoot his gun, so I had a couple of shots too.... which actually I forgot to say I killed two magpies on saturday cause we went magpie hunting- so I have officially killed with a gun... not something I'm particularly proud of... it was kinda sad actually cause I killed two poor little baby magpies and then the whole magpie colony from 5km about was in mourning for the rest of the afternoon... squawking and such like... well Dave killed one too and Ben killed one PLUS the mother... so we pretty much wiped out an entire family... which at least I guess we didn't leave one alone all by itself right??!!?? I mean if someone came and wiped out my entire family I'd probably want to be dead to...so i guess it was kind of an act of mercy... not. 



anyway I've put up some pictures on facebook...which for some reason their only on my wall not on posted up on the general news feed i think so you may not have seen them (and yes I too am a little concerned - as I'm sure you are - about the frequency of the appearance of guns in the photo's...mmmm slightly worrying).........but here are some more... without guns.  

Me eating comfort food all alone in Sydney airport... just as well i had interesting mail to keep me entertained :) (thanks @camille, @carla, @benjamin)

photographic evidence - frootloops at 10:13pm... disgusting.

SNOW!!! in summer!!! aka known as fluff from the poplar trees....

and that's all from me for now...