Updation Station

I met a man from Brussels… he was 6 foot 4 and full of muscles. I said “do you speak my language?” and he just smiled and gave me a vegemite sandwich. Now, I don’t know if you’ve had vegemite, but I hope so. It is the weirdest stuff I’ve ever tasted and I gotta say I don’t know how it’s popular. They must have had some fantastic marketing when it first came out.

Anyway – Back in blogland is where I am. I’ve been slacking off like a 200 pound 12 year-old in gym class, so it’s time to kick it in gear. There isn’t all that much to update everyone out there on what has happened… but more what will hopefully happen. Well, ok, we’ve done more than nothing here in the past few weeks so I’ll go over that first.

One notable thing I got to take place in recently was the dicing up of a ‘killah’… as it is affectionately called. A ‘killah’, as I understand it, is just a bull/cow from a cattle range that you kill and eat. I was a butcher for a day. Now, I wish I had a picture of me with all the different parts of the cow on the table or hanging on the hooks (especially the kidney, tongue, liver, etc), but I don’t have a picture because my hands were covered in meat/juices. I helped Rob cut different pieces up for steaks or mince or whatever else. Then we took a break for a bbq lunch and I had cow liver and kidney for the first time in my life. I liked the liver a lot, but Erin preferred the kidney. Both were very interesting flavors. Afterwards Robbie hooked us up with a bunch of steaks and a couple kilos of mince so we’ll eat well for the rest of the time here. I’m currently under the impression it’ll be fine to just leave the meat in the fridge for the next week and a half and cook them up when I want them… is that ok? Somebody let me know if I definitely need to freeze it to keep from keeling over because I’d much rather just leave it as is. Mmmmmmm, delicious.

I recently finished reading a book called ‘Exodus’, which was a fantastic novel based on the creation of the Jewish nation of Israel. It’s a good book and I’d recommend reading it if you haven’t. I knew a decent amount of the hardships the Jewish people went through during the holocaust in Europe, but I had no idea about most of the other stuff prior to and since. I also recently finished reading Huckleberry Finn, which I’m not sure if I ever read before. Mom – did we read that when I was growing up? I couldn’t remember any of it and thought it was very entertaining and a good break after such a serious book. Tom Sawyer is hilarious. I just started ‘A Portrait of Dorian Gray’, which Erin’s claims to have heard it’s fantastic. It’s a penguin book and only 250 pages or so – so it should most definitely be worth the time. What else am I gunna do here?

To answer that question… I will say not much. We have about a week and a half left here in good old Bedourie before moving on to bigger (it’s impossible to get any smaller than here) and better (more exciting, that’s for sure) things. Without giving too much away… Lindberg and Erin and I are going to do more ridiculously fun and amazing things in 3 weeks than any 3 people should do in a year. Activities include, but are not limited to… Scuba diving, sand dune tobogganing/surfing, snorkeling, surfing, 4WD’ing, rainforesting (no that doesn’t mean cutting down rainforests… just checkin em out), NRL footy double header-ing, sailing, hiking. What do you think? I know… I’m excited, too!

With only 3 weeks to do everything… our schedule has to be worked out to the day and in some instances the hour. What I mean to say is that one particular day we get back from a 4WD tour of Fraser Island in the evening. Then we sit around for a few hours and get on a bus at 1am headed towards Brisbane. When we arrive at Brisbane at 6:05am… we have 55 minutes to take our stuff to our hostel for storage and return to the bus depot to get picked up by our next tour (Moreton Island) at 7am. We will be sleeping in more ridiculous places than ever before. Actually, thinking back to New Zealand, it’ll just be almost as ridiculous but certainly just as fun.

I hope you enjoy reading Lindberg’s blogs because I am living vicariously through him at the moment. He inspires me to continue my rigorous workout regimen in preparation for the fun along the east coast.

That’s all for now – you stay classy readers.

- Jesse “T-minus 11 days” Meredith