Date: February 22, 2006

Author: loisa merch slinger

G'day Tegan and Sara fans, Liisa here again. Or Loisa as they say down unda. This time reporting to you on my adventures in Oz. Yes the girls put me in a plane (or 11) and flew me almost all the way around the world and back in the name of rocking out the Aussies. It was my first time in the land of Kangaroos and Boomerangs. (even though I didn't see any roo's but I did buy a 'rang) Ah yes roo's and 'rangs. This brings me to how fucking cute the Aussies are. We are sitting on one of our flights and the pilot comes over the PA to apologize for the turbulence we had just experienced. And this is how it went, "G'day everyone, I just wanted to say sorry for all the niggly bumps we just 'ad. That should be the end of em." And I thought to myself "NIGGLY BUMPS!" How fucking cute is that, what are god damm Care Bears flying this plane or what! Does it say in an Australian Air Nautical Book, under Turbulence "Niggly Bumps"???!!!

However I have also learned that Quanta's Flight Attendants aren't so cute, well they certainly don't like high five'in anyway. After waking up after about 8 hrs into our flight (yes that's right I'm one of those annoying people who actually can sleep on planes....it's all about wearing your jammies...) I get up to find the Flight Attendant and inquire how long it might be until I can get a cup of coffee, she replies that breakfast is going to be served in 10 minuets, I, super excited about this say "all right!" and I throw up my hand full extention to High Five her in celebration, (a very common Canadian move) she stands there staring at me not moving her hand one inch. Not one inch!!! So I'm left hanging with no other choice but to pretend I need to brush my hair out of my face with the offending hand. And I slink back to my chair to wait for my coffee and meet the dirty looks from Rob who is seething with jealousy that I have slept so many hours. ( where was your neck'illow I ask you Rob?)

Another really cute thing I saw on the way to the Airport in Perth was spider webs that were BIG ENOUGH TO CATCH A HORSE RUNNING BY!!!!!! When I shouted and insisted the gang in the bus look out the window so they too could have future nightmares, they replied, "sure Liisa and next you're going to tell us that there are deer like creatures that hop, and big huge fish with teeth that eat you too." Now some of you may not know this about Rob and Chris but they both have a huge phobia of Sharks. Normally not an issue living in Montreal or Vancouver but we were in the land of the great white and we were going to go swimming. So I guess to ease their anxiety Rob came up with a little game for us to play when we got to the beach. He asked us to swim out until out feet could no longer touch the ground, then dip our heads under the water, open our eyes and pretend that A GREAT WHITE WAS COMING STRAIGHT FOR YOUR HEAD!!!!! Then we had to turn around and see how fast we could get out of the water which we all did and realized that each and everyone of us would have been dead in the water in about two seconds flat.

It was a fun game, thank you Rob.

Well swallow me back leg it's time to say good bye,

Thank you Tegan and Sara for another great adventure and thank you to all the Aussie fans who came by my merch table and High Fived me after hearing about my awkward Quantas moment.

Until next time

Loisa

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