Just a wee bit o Trivia

Shopping trolleys = shopping carts
Stuff up = f*** up
Arvos = afternoons
Feeling crook = feeling sick                     suss out = figure it out
Rice bubbles = Rice krispies                    heaps and heaps = lots
Cyclones = hurricanes                              sanga = sandwich
strides = trousers                                       smoko = morning coffee/tea break

- Have to vote or get fined
- Left a popsicle stick on the coffee table - soon overrun by ants, millions of tiny ants.
- Left open lifesavers in beach bag at scuba class – millions of ants soon in my bag.
- Every time I got on a bus the driver was a different nationality
- Eggs in stores just on the shelves not in fridge
- Electrical outlets have on/off switches so you have to remember to flip the switch
- Water drains anti clock? Jury is still out on this – I’ve seen it go both ways.
- Drive on left side of road but no left turn on red
- Cairns Water Skiing park – you get pulled on a cable not a boat – very ingenious
- Bull bars on cars to prevent kangaroo collision damage, so why aren’t they kangaroo bars?
- 2 button toilets – a little water or a lot of water
- Australian bills look like Monoply money. Coins are 50, 20, 10, 5, no pennies any more
- Big hummingbirds but aren’t really hummingbirds just act like them
- fruit bats hang from the trees in downtown Cairns and make a heck of a racket, even during the day. Can have a wing span of up to a metre and are called flying foxes.

Prices: small bottle of Lipton ice tea 2.50; 1 Donut 1.50 or 2.50 if it has icing; Gas $1.33/litre
Coffee usually $3.50 – nothing resembling Timmies; Macdonald’s prices are close to ours