My first adventure

This time thing has got me screwed up! Yesterday I was sooooo flipping tired that I was passed out at 7pm. Well, I was wide awake, up and at em at 3 am this morning. I watched TV, took a shower, finished reading my book and was out of things to do by 5am. So I just hung out and lounged until 10am when I could call my boss. I am having serious trouble phoning people in Australia. I have no idea how the phone system works. I guess telephone numbers are six digits, but cell phone numbers are eight digits and start with a 4, but you have to start with a 0 because its a long distance call. I don't know. Calling people on the phone is apparently above my skill level, so I call the front desk and they call and then connect me. Anyways, today (Monday April 13th) was a public holiday so the Chevron offices were closed. No work today. I set up a dinner time with my new boss and headed out on the town for my first adventure. I walked down to the Chevron building to make sure that I could find it tomorrow. Its only a block away so that was easy. Then I kept walking down to St George's Terrace and down to The Esplanade which borders the river. There is a huge Ferris wheel and a bell tower next to the river ferry. Didn't have time to check those out, I was on a mission. A zoo mission.

I paid $3.60 for my ferry ride and that includes the return! Cheapest thing I've bought so far! In fact, a ferry ride over and back is cheaper than a small bottle of water. Amazing. The ferry ride was pretty sweet. Its just a little water bus. No cars drive on the ferry - just people (not like going to Galveston Island mom...) So after my ferry ride, I walked a few blocks and was at the Perth Zoo. I pay and get my ticket and as soon as I walk through the gates, here comes two zoo keepers with a huge elephant, just taking it for a walk. I knew this was going to be ossim.

First thing I did was get some lunch cuz I was hungry. I had a crappy chicken sandwich, a bottle of water, and a mocha thing in a milk carton. Came to $17.00. Let me just tell you about these mocha milk things. They are so amazing and they're everywhere. They are a drink that comes in these little milk cartons and they come in a million flavors. The best one (and the only one I've tried) is the mocha ones. Its like chocolate milk and coffee mixed together. So after I got some lunch, I went to find some animals. I can't remember what the first thing I looked at... I better get the map out. BABOONS!!!! Baboons were the first thing I saw. They were ossim! They had shiny pink butts and there was about 6 of them. They were mean suckers and they fought each other a little bit. One had his lipstick out. So after that I saw some lions, a couple rhinoceroses (which were incredible! they are bad asses), a cheetah, some hyenas, giraffes, zebras, meerkats. Those were the African animals. I guess I won't name all the animals I saw. We could be here all day. I will say that my ultimate favorite animal was the koala bears!!! I think that was the first time I got to see Koala bears awake. I wanted to hug one so bad I couldn't stand it. They're so soft and fuzzy and cute. OMG... I loved all the Australian animals! There was a wombat that was asleep in his little den and it was hysterical. I will have to download the picture on here later. He looked just like Petunia when she's asleep. In the Australian walkabout part of the zoo (where all the Australian animals are), kangaroos are just running lose all over. There are paths that the people have to stay on and the have short little rope barricades to persuade you to stay on the path. So, I'm sitting there watching the roo's with two other people and one of them decides he's going to cross the path. When he went to jump over the rope, he tripped and fell right on his face. I really felt bad, but I laughed my ass off. It was hilarious. Oh, I also got to see a dingo. The only think that I could think was "A dingo ate my baby" I've been saying that in my head all day. The dingo looked like a red dog. I saw a ghost bad eat a mouse. I had a monkey pee on my head (thank God I was standing under a glass dome and the pee didn't actually get on me.) When I was at the orangutans exhibit, it started to raid. These two orangutans had burlap sacks and they used them to keep from getting wet. They started fighting each other to get all the burlap sacks. Those orangutans had an amazing home. They had these HUGE metal and wood structures to play on. I have to say there are some amazing trees and vegetation here. The gum trees look they have skin instead of bark. Really cool! I can't think of anything else to say about the zoo.

It was still raining pretty good so I decided I better head back so I could get ready for dinner. I crossed the river and got back to my apartment. Took a shower and my boss picked me up for dinner at 5:30 pm. We went back across the river (drove this time) to a restaurant named Coco's. It was delicious! We had some crab for an appetizer and it was so good. I had some chicken risotto and broccoli for dinner with a lemon brulee with honeycomb on top. An amazing meal. For 3 of us at dinner, total came to $260. (My boss's fillet was $42. My dessert was $17 Small Risotto $24, Broccoli $8) We didn't even have cocktails! I can't get over how much things cost here. I really liked my new boss and his wife. They are really nice and I think that things are going to be good. I'll let you know how tomorrow goes - my first day at the office.

Peace out -
Mitzi