President of the Universe

This morning I walked downstairs to the question of “Are YOU a Cylon?”

My host brother, along with a few other people, were deeply involved in a Battlestar Gallactica board game of epic proportions, commanding the entire dining room table with an expansive assertion of conquest through cards and little plastic figurines of spaceships. I popped a piece of bread in the toaster and countered with the possibility that everyone is probably, at the end of the day, a Cylon. As that slice of bread absorbed the amount of Nutella I insisted it bear, I sat down and observed their game with amusement. I learned that there can only be one president of the universe, that Michael talks less when he is the Cylon, and that playing with three expansion packs means someday the fourth expansion pack will simply be a bigger box to keep all the pieces in.

It was a good morning.

Then, after a lunch of wheat buns filled with chicken, “chips” (French fries), and gravy (I told you Aussies have many meals – see? Food is now all I can write about!), my roommate and I ventured out to try to meet up with some people who would be attending an evening service at Hillsong Church.

Our quest epically failed as we took a car, and then were told the wrong bus time, and so had to find another bus, and then took a train, and then tried to find a Hillsong bus in a huge city square, only to be told that the people we were to meet would not be coming, to then decide it was too late to try making it to the service, to then take the train back, then find out that we were going in very-much-the-opposite-direction-of-home as we realized we were going across the harbor bridge into the north, to then eventually get off, turn around, take the right train, get off the train, buy 50 cent Macca’s ice cream (mmm food), and walk to find the bus to then walk home ….

Where we then made scrambled eggs with cheese and sandwiches and juice and later ate granola bars and peaches ….

Mmm food.

Above: On the topic of food, this is a picture of a dinner outing last night with my host family and some of their friends. It was in celebration of their daughter’s, and their daughter-in-law’s, birthday. Excellent company and wonderful food! : )