“Life In The So-Called Space Age”
It never ceases to amaze me that Australia – a country with less than a tenth the population of America – has such an enormous and diverse range of candy and ice-creams in the market.
Champagne or slime in your ice-cream?
What about Lemonade chocolate?
Or this evil-sounding thing:
Here’s one of Bernard’s favourites, donuts and frozen coke:
And here’s tuna named after a genus of mammal but using a different mammal as a mascot:
Incidentally, I’ve only eaten one of the items shown above 🙂
Today we lazed around a bit and went shopping for hours. At Charlestown Square mall, Bernard and I discovered the Timezone arcade had actually become decent:
During the several hours we spent between two malls, Bernard managed to beat his five-patty record set yesterday and eat two Oporto Bondi Triple Burgers! That’s six chicken breast patties in one day! Since I know there are skeptics among you, here’s photographic proof.
Two different malls, two Oporto meals, same afternoon. Bernard has demonstrated these past three days that man can live on Oporto alone. My hat is tipped!
What else happened today? I spent some time getting the two iPads set up (one each for mum and dad). I bought a shirt and a Dalek. Bernard started coding our game (that you’ll be able to play via this blog) and I had a mini allergic attack after eating a wiz-fizz cone lolly.
And at the end of the day, cards:
Mum described the scene as ‘bedlam’ shortly after we arrived. I’m guessing this was because of Bernard being his usual manic self while I was sitting peacefully and quietly.
As you can see Dad’s in fine health. Here’s another shot of him hiding behind my dinner:
Bernard screamed manically about beetroot being ‘The King’s Tuber’. I sagely, peacefully and quietly agreed…
So, going back a bit, yesterday we came up to Newcastle. Mum and dad were of course glad to see us…. and then we left again to go shopping! This included a delicious lunch:
Oh, and here’s Bernard playing SFL’s favourite poker machine:
Here’s a giant spider on mum and dads window:
In the evening we entertained aunts and uncles…
Before I retired in my hotel room for the next 10 days:
