You can call me for free!!

A friend of mine introduced me to this new service: http://www.futurephone.com/ which allows people from the US to make free international calls to over 50 different countries... and yes! Australia is on the list. First you call a regular number in the US, and with most cell phones this is free!

In case you are skeptical check out this article about the company on abc news : http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=2560255&page=1 It is pretty legit. They use VOIP to route the calls cheaply and advertising to pay for the calls much like websites do. Pretty sweet idea!

So yeah, if anyone wants to try this out and call me, my home number (including country code) is: 617 4728 1530 I'm not home alot lately cause I am taking a class from 9am - 5pm everyday until next Thursday, but leave me a message! Drunk dial me anytime! (Although if you can dial that many digits, you probably aren't drunk enough.) I checked with the service and apparently Aussie mobile phones don't work yet (probably because they are more expensive to call). But if you want to try just get in touch with me and I'll give you my cell number.

So now you guys have no excuse not to call me!! haha Pictures from Australia Day (their 4th of July) coming soon...

A day in China...

For my last day in Sydney I wanted to check out the Chinese Gardens. They are gorgeous with lots of cool trees to take pictures of :-) Also, they are close to Chinatown, so I headed there after to hunt down some good cheap food. Yum!

This is an old wedding carriage carved out of jade

Aweome bonsai trees:

Doing the self-taken picture thing again...

Cool bamboo carving:

Black bamboo forest

This is one is my favorite tree picture:

Big bamboo:

Chinatown

The Hamburgler

Woke up early again Saturday morning to check out some markets in the area of Sydney called Glebe. It was sooo hot and sunny that I had to find a hat. But I couldn't find anything in the markets so I relented and went to KMart. KMart here is way better than in the States. Kinda like Target. Later on that afternoon I caught up with Jaime, a Uni friend, and we hung out in Hyde Park for a bit before going to the movies to see Pan's Labyrinth. Awesome movie. Go see it. Before the movie we hit up Hungry Jack's, which is Burger King in Australia. Jaime ordered this HUGE double whopper with cheese and it actually looked really good and something inside me really wanted to try a bite, so I did. And it was GOOD. So I took another. For the record, I still don't like red meat.... but this didn't really taste like meat cause it was cooked all the way through and stuff. And I know I wouldn't be able to eat a whole one. But one bite was ok. Jaime documented the moment:

A street in Glebe: