Waking Up in Oz

An American Girl's Adventures in Australia

Archive for September, 2009

It’s Great to be a Florida Gator

Posted by Kerry

This past weekend I visited my university town to cheer on the Gators against Tennessee. It was intended to be the “last hurrah” for Mandi and me. I’d say we did a damn good job of hurrah-ing our little hearts (and livers) out. I seriously don’t know how I survived football season year after year. [...]

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Tastes Like Chicken

Posted by Kerry

The latest Aussie food I’ve learned about is chicken salt. That’s right, chicken-flavored salt. It’s most often sprinkled on CHICKEN (for those times when it doesn’t taste enough like chicken), fries and fried seafood. I can’t decide what’s more odd, putting it on chicken or putting it on fish. It’s so common that some restaurants [...]

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Who needs electricity? It’s FIJI!

Posted by Kerry

We ended up booking a tour in Fiji with Awesome Adventures Fiji. We were planning on doing Contiki’s Fiji package, but turns out you can only book that in conjunction with another Contiki tour (i.e. one of their Aus or NZ tours).  Not to bash Contiki, because I couldn’t have been happier with them on [...]

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