Strange Neighbors

So I've decided to try a blog.  My mom keeps encouraging me to do one about our adventures while in Australia, so here it goes.  Mom, you know what you have to do now...get that cookbook going!  I don't know where to begin, so I'll start with a weird thing that happened last night.  While Dan was driving home yesterday we were chatting on the phone, I knew he was near, because he had mentioned it in our conversation.  I heard him talking to somebody else, & then he hangs up the phone.  So I go to the door & see a scroungy looking woman smoking a cigarette on our driveway as if she belonged there.  Dan exits the car & says something polite& walks inside.  He is looking at me like, "Don't go there Rachel..just get inside".  I look before closing the door, & the woman is hiding behind our neighbor's van.  Dan explains to me that the woman said, "my husband scared the crap out of me so I am waiting for a taxi".  So she is waiting for a taxi while smoking a cigarette in our front yard?  Strange.

On a lighter note, I found a new butter dish today that I am happy about because all the butter dishes I have don't fit the butter here.  I am in the process of trying to convert American measurements of butter into weight with grams.  Thank goodness for iPhone apps!  I just convert our American recipes, no big deal really.  Fortunately cooking is pretty much the same...baking is a bit more tricky.  It's the little things right?!