Surfers Paradise

Well we are finally here! It is so amazing here, I can't even believe how different it is. Surfers Paradise is like a little resort town almost, there is so much going on all the time and a lot of young people. It is a pretty small town but if you look on a map you can see there are a lot of towns like broadbeach, mermaid beach, miami, and they are all small resort places but are almost connected. We travelled down yesterday to Currumbin to check out their beach and got to see a surf competition! We haven't started looking for a job yet, we are kinda liking the relaxing part of being here! The ocean here is so beautiful! Though it does get extremely hot here- we aren't quite used to that yet! We havent seen a kangaroo yet....which is disappointing but we did find out they eat them here. I guess they taste like chicken. haha. Food has been the most dramatic change we have found. We went grocery shopping and what a hassle! They dont have kraft dinner, perogies, ranch dressing, chicken fingers, or anything easy to make. Everything here is more natural and expensive. haha. Pop is very expensive here...$18.99 for 24 cans. Alcohol is also very expensive here. But we are enjoying it here a lot! We have met a family from a town north of here that has already invited us to come stay with them so they could show us around there. And they loved the maple candies we brought over from Canada. Its so funny talking to all of the people here and listening to the way they talk. And they think the stories we tell about Canada are so funny. We just found out that we are also living in the perfect location. Sea World is ten minutes away, WetnWild which is a HUGE waterpark is twenty minutes away, and they also have two different parks that are just like disneyland called movieworld and dreamworld which are also only twenty minutes away. So tomorrow or the next day we plan on taking the bus to see some of them! The shopping here is very different as well. Girls here all wear little summer dresses, and guys were board shorts and flip flops. Oh and those converse sneakers are so popular here as well- almost everyone wears them. So we have not gone shopping to buy any clothes yet. There are designer stores everywhere as well, like Louis Vuitton, Fendi, BCBG and so many more. So its cool to look at all of those kinds of stores too. I know Becky will like this picture.....Tandri is getting pretty antsy because we have not gone golfing yet, so I guess that is on our list of things to do as well. We still have not gotten used to the time change yet. When you guys are going to bed we are just waking up, so we are tired a lot of the time. Today we are going to go down to the ocean (which is about a 3 minute walk) and talk a walk through the markets with the family that we met. Tandri is sunburnt already so we are off to buy some suntan lotion! hehe. Miss you all.

Tandri and Brittni