You would think that if you had to wake up in the morning at 7am to commute the hour (the same distance I had to travel to NYC) only to watch the Super Bowl and drink Budweiser, it wouldn't be a problem? I can tell you from experience, it seems just like getting up for work. I could barely get Jon out of bed! Especially because, THE PATRIOTS WEREN"T PLAYING!!!
We did make it down to the Prince of Wales Pub & Hotel to watch the Colts / Bears game play out with many other American expats! What a great day & what a great game! We sat and we bitched and we comiserated about things that no one else here would understand. I mean truly, the taste in the Yankee Stadium dog is "Brooklyn Water." No one else gets that, except the proprieters of Eli's Bagel's in Matawan, which is why there bagels are so GOOD!
By meeting the Americans that live in BrisVegas as they call it, I have realized one thing: Jon and I are country folk. Brisbane is a far cry from NYC, Boston or LA, but being on the Sunshine Coast, we are, as the woman at the Telstra shop put it, "about 20 years behind the U.S.A."
But that's not a bad thing. Career-wise, Jon and I see each other. Neither one of us has the opportunity to become a work-a-holic. We are forced to do shopping in a set time frame, which, in turn, distinctly sets apart free time or family time. We have the opportunity to sit and talk, or to sit and say nothing. When did that ever happen stateside?
See our previous post about where we live. Albeit, the melonoma capital of the world, but it's our home now......
Loving Life, Loving You, From the Sunshine Coast....
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