I realise i have been a little remiss lately. I haven't blogged for a while but that's because I've been busy trying out every all-American activity I can. On wednesday I was taken out for curry, american style. It was pretty nice but I'm afraid that nothing beats the butter chicken (sauce) from home. Then I had my first afternoon in front of the television for a whole week and a half! Yay! But then the really interesting stuff happened. On thursday Katie and I shopped for our impending two night camping trip. The purchases were unfortunately largely influenced by me, as I got very excited whenever I saw anything that I'd read about in Babysitter's Club books (Ho Ho's! Mounds Bars! Frito's!). As a result Katie and I are now in the early stages of scurvy. Camping was interesting (ish). We walked, swam in the lake and went to a giant toboggan slide thingy, where I went in the experienced lane and spent the whole time being chased by a 7 year old who kept gaining on me. I don't know how he did it I outweighed him by at least 30 kilos. Katie and I spent the 2 nights in the back of her ute (pick-up) chaperoned by her barking, growling, twitching pitbull Brunhilda. We didn't sleep much but I did eat a s'more so that was nice. My camping adventure over, last night I did the most American things ever. We went to the Jefferson County Fair, bought a lamb at an auction, went to a rodeo and finally, after two beers on an empty stomach, I rode a mechanical bull. Luckily, how bad I was at that was overshadowed by my inability to get onto the bull in the first place. And you're up to date with my not so wild north-western adventures.