Fall is here, and I am wearing jeans for the first time since May! Both the temperature and the humidity have dropped significantly, and it's really lovely to be outside. The mornings and evenings are cool but not cold, and the daytime is sunny and hot, but temperate enough to actually enjoy being outside for more than a couple of minutes.
Lucas and I went on a bike ride together for the first time ever last night! We rode about twenty minutes to a restaurant we hadn't been to before, then felt awkward coz we got there and realised we had underdressed. Then later on in the evening we went to a pub called the Firkin & Phoenix, where they were playing the AFL Grand Final. It was such a fun night! They had Aussie food on the menu (sausage rolls & sauce, yummy yummy), and Cooper's & Boag's in specially (still cheaper by the bottle than you would get it at a bar in Melbourne), and there were so many Australian accents - lots of fun. It was totally packed with rabid expats, including at least a few vocal Collingwood supporters...although you could pick them before they even opened their mouths :) Nice to be immersed in something good and Australian, although I think if it had been something Australian that I really care about (like the Melbourne Fringe Festival or something, not just the footy!) it would have been too much on the homesickness front. And I also thought, you know what? I'm glad I'm watching this here and not in Australia, because I do have that sense of feeling richer for having lived in a different place. During the national anthem, all the Aussies stood up and put their hands on their hearts - it made me smile to think that they'd obviously been overseas long enough to miss their country, because they wouldn't be caught dead doing that back home.
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