I have always wanted you to throw it underhand!

Lauren has been having trouble using her credit card in Australia, so she called her mom on Skype to see if she could help. Needless to say it was supermom to the rescue! She had an awesome idea to just hold the phone up to the computer so Lauren could talk to the Citi worker over Skype! It worked wonders and Lauren is now able to use her credit card again since they blocked her card since they had suspected problems! With that out of the way we were ready to start our day and get out since it was actually sunny, with markets first on the list. I know it seems we always go to the markets, but they are always for good reasons! Today we planned on going to find a wine holder and a key hook that we could share with the extra money we had left over from my $50 find. As we strolled through the aisles, we were trying to see if we couldn’t find the cheapest of both items. We were able to find a lot of stalls with key holders, but all of them had the same designs that we weren’t too fond of. The wind holder is a different story. We made our way back to a stand that we scoped out earlier that was selling them for a reasonable price. As we looked through our choices, we both spotted an awesome one with bright colors! We had never seen one with such bright colors before, so we knew that this was the one. We bought the holder and decided to stroll around a little bit more, but we didn’t find anything else that we liked, so we headed to buy a couple of vegetables before we headed off to do the pylon climb. Once we bought our veggies, we headed outside to sort them in our bag, as well check to make sure we had our Pylon tickets. As we sorted, we found one problem – our tickets were not in the bag. We double checked but our tickets definitely weren’t in the bag. With disappointment, we headed to World Square Shopping Center to just fill out the rest of our day, plus we thought we could possibly find a different key holder. The key holders in those stores were also a letdown, but Lauren noticed something that got her attention – Macaroons for $1! Since we had never tried one before, we said today was going to be the day! We clanked our macaroons together (since it was the first time we had them) and took a nice small bite, since they are only the size of a quarter! They were delicious! We were both pleased with our macaroons and both agreed that it was a dollar well spent! We soon headed back since the sunset was coming in and we planned on going to the park to watch it instead of the Harbour Bridge. Good thing we did because huge clouds rolled in and covered the sunset completely! Since there was no sun but lots of clouds, we decided to head back and make dinner before trivia. On our Wednesday menu, we made what Lauren called a shepherd’s pie. It consisted of mashed potatoes, veggies and tuna, which combined makes a very delicious meal! After we stuffed our faces, we got ready for trivia by looking up a world map since every week they do a geography question and most of the time we get it wrong or rely on Neill. We quizzed one another and agreed that we knew all we were going to know. As we headed out the door, I realized that I had not practiced my paper airplane technique! This meant that we had to wait a couple more minutes since paper airplanes had become a big part of trivia! Lauren had always told me to throw it underhand, so I gave it a shot. I think I should have listened to her the whole time because that was the best way to throw an airplane! After about 5 minutes of throwing, we grabbed our skateboards and headed off to trivia. We are on regular basis with the host now, and he hands us the trivia paper and crossword puzzle as we walk in the door. We find this funny because he also knows us as the Americans with the skateboards! As we sat down, we tried to work on the crossword puzzle, but unfortunately it was a playoff of last week’s ‘movies in 2000’s’ with ‘movies in 1990’s’. We only got a few answers before we called it quits. The first round went by and we only scored 6 out of 20 points (if you think that’s bad, well it kind of is, but they asked so many Australian questions, it was borderline not fair!). The second round was a little better and we scored 10 out of 20. Our only hope to win anything was now on paper planes. I have worked hard the last couple weeks to get my plane through the door, but have been unsuccessful. Today was going to be the week I was going to win!  As we lined up with our paper planes, plane after plane wasn’t going through the door. When I stepped up to throw, I nervously planted my feet behind the line and quickly threw it underhand and it soared out of the door! All thanks to Lauren since I finally listened to her and threw it underhanded or that’s what she says! There were only a few people left to throw their airplanes, and one almost beat mine, but finally I was victorious! Lauren cheered as I walked back, and I can’t lie, I was pretty happy to have finally won! And there was only one way to celebrate – Karaoke of course! We shocked even ourselves by stepping up to do it, but we are living by the ‘don’t delay’ motto now, so we decided to give it a shot. We tried to sing Stereohearts by gym class heroes, and tried is the correct word here. For those that don’t know the song, it is actually a fairly upbeat one with a rap portion in the beginning. We ended up mumbling the rap part completely, but at least we got the chorus down! It was so much fun to just be up there singing together though since the crowd was so supportive! It was like the karaoke that we had in mind where everyone is so nervous to give it a shot since everyone is staring at you. In fact, people could really careless who’s singing, or how bad they sound since everyone’s just after having a good time. We stayed a little bit longer to just sit back and listen to everyone else sing. The ride back on our skateboards was interesting, but there definitely weren’t as many people on the footpaths at that hour. We had gone to trivia with high hopes of winning something, so we were both giddy and excited that this hope had finally come true! Karaoke was just the icing on the cake!