Australia Blog: Day 3 - Relaxation, Exploration, Barbie

Saturday was a bit of a lazy day, which was very enjoyable (not surprising I would enjoy the laziness). I haven't really had any bad jet lag, and woke up and went to sleep at normal hours. During the day I went with Bobby to run some errands around the town of Hornsby. Hornsby is a large suburb of Sydney about 45 minutes north. We went to the Westfield shopping mall which is by far the largest mall I have ever been. It's over 1 million square feet total, with tons of stores, restaurants and even several grocery stores. There was an Aldi there, which I know we have back home and it was just as bad as a store as I remembered.

Popular grocery store, in the mall!

Later in the day I decided to take a walk from back at the house to the center of town and the train station. It's about 1.5 kilometers (a little less than a mile) to the train/bus station which I'll be taking to school most days. It was a fun walk filled with some cool wildlife and views. I saw some pretty cool birds along the way, but no kangaroos (they're not really in our area).

Two awesome looking birds during my walk.

We went over to a family friend of Bobby and Maddie for a barbie (bbq). It was the son's 25th birthday and it was a good time with drinks and tons of really good food. Kebabs are very popular here and they were excellent. The family is from Scotland and only moved here 8 years ago. I've noticed just in the three days I've been here how diverse Australia here, there are many many people who immigrated in recent years and from a variety of different countries.