Australia bound

So I am moving to Sydney for two years. Yes its exciting, yes it will be fun, no I can’t wait and no I am not sure the exact date I am moving but it should be in a the next 4-6 weeks. I am transferring down there with Grant Thornton to work in our office there, in the same capacity as I do here.

Anyway, I wanted to set up this blog to keep all my friends and family informed and entertained by my travels without requiring me to write thirty million emails or mass mail people. I will try and email people directly occasionally but I want to go ahead and apologize because it will not be a regular occurrence. Also as most of you know I am not the most verbose person, so I will try and update this page as often as I can. There will be photos and videos linked (Flickr and YouTube links will be to the right).

Now on to the first real entry: Fact or Fiction – Australia The following are based on a trip several years ago to New Zealand and Australia as well as the all knowing InterWeb.

• Aussies do not greet people with the phrase "good day, mate" and rarely put "shrimp on the barbie." They do, however, live by the phrase "no worries, mate!"
• Yes, it is a former penal colony. But contrary to popular belief, the Brits did not send the worst murderers here (those, they executed). Instead, they a sent in a few boatloads of petty thieves accompanied by soldiers and sailors.
• The toilets do flush in the opposite direction, the moon appears upside-down and summer is in winter.
• Australia is organized into states and territories:
  STATES: • New South Wales (Sydney, where I'll be) • Victoria (Melbourne) • Queensland (Brisbane, the Gold Coast) • South Australia (Adelaide) • Western Australia (Perth and large desert areas) • Tasmania (a devil of an island)
  TERRITORIES:• Australian Capitol Territory• The Northern Territory
• The capital is Canberra not Sydney.
• Australians don’t really drink Fosters, yes they have it and yes it started in Australia but they don’t drink it any more.
• Kangaroos are not really cute and cuddly. The are pests like deer are n the US, except they can actually punch you. I can’t tell you what they taste like but that is on the To Do list.
• Anything you know about Australia from "Crocodile Dundee" is wrong. and wrong like believing the whole South is like "Deliverance". They don’t walk around with knives in their pockets comparing sizes.
• Australia is reputed to have 21 of the top 25 most poisonous snakes in the world, including all of the top 10. But I bet they all taste like chicken.

That’s it. While I am down there, please feel free to ask me whatever you want. Just realize two things: I reserve the right to ignore any ridiculous, asinine, or otherwise inappropriate questions and I might be too busy having fun half way around the world to respond in a “timely” fashion. That’s it for now.