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Right. Left. Right. Left. Right?!
If you’re American and you’ve been to Samoa, first, I’m jealous of you; second, I know you had no problems getting around if you rented a car – they’re a right-side driving nation. As is 70% of the world. Some of the 30% of the world keeping left includes: Australia, Cayman Islands, Japan, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago.
Ahh, but, that’s no more according to this article from the Wall Street Journal.
Now that summer’s rolling in, I’m sure most of you are heading somewhere on vacation (or at least planning or wishing for a vacation). And vacation usually means a night (or 2, or 3…) in a hotel. I love staying in hotels. The black out curtains. The super cold AC (well, that’s more for JP). Knowing you’re someplace other than home. In fact, I’m still thinking about the awesome sheets/bed at a hotel we stayed at in San Francisco. There was also the Jupiter Beach Resort where we had our wedding – super cute amenities to take home.
I found this article from Travel +Leisure on CNN.com quite amusing – Is it OK to steal hotel amenities? It said that most places actually want you to take home their goodies. It makes sense. You arrive at Cute Bed & Breakfast. Take home Cute Bed & Breakfast soap and lotions. Use those soap & lotions at home a couple of weeks later, then think of Cute Bed & Breakfast again.
What do you take from hotels??
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On another note, has anyone else noticed the rise in mentions of Australia on US television lately? Seriously. Andrew Zimmerman and his balls-tongue-eye-eating self went to Australia. The former Girls Next Door star, Bridget Marquardt, opened her new show with a trip Down Under visiting Bondi and the Gold Coast among other places. Just this morning, Good Morning America had some guy on talking about Australia’s deadliest creatures.
I think it’s a sign. Must. Go. Back. Soon.
I’ve been amiss lately. I do hate when life gets busy. Or, at least, seems busy. And it’s not like I can pinpoint one thing or another that’s really kept me on the move. I tend to feel busy even if the hustle & bustle is only in my wee brain. Anywho, I got to get out of town last weekend – a wedding shower & hen’s party in Tampa. It’s always a good time when I see my girls, and any event that consists of more than a dozen girls is, well, surely eventful. The hen’s party took us to Channelside in Tampa where we kicked things off at Howl at the Moon (a dueling piano bar) where we drank liquids out of a huge bucket and made the bride-to-be dance on stage to a ridiculous rendition of Sir Mix-A-Lot’s Baby Got Back. If you know the bride-to-be, you know that dancing on stage and dancing to Baby Got Back are not activities out of line for a…er, any night 
JP and I have also been busy trying to be adult. In other words, looking to move to that next step in our relationship – home ownership. Eeee! We’ve come a long way, baby. I remember being slightly nervous when we combined our CD collection (do we keep both Ten albums?). Got a pet fish. Went to the bathroom with the door open. It’s the little steps that make you know you’re making one big one together 
We’re still walking, so I guess that’s a good sign…
Back to fun things, I went to see No Doubt at the local Cruzan Amphitheatre on Wednesday. They rock. I saw them back in 98, and they were just as awesome then as they were today! Gwen is hot. I love the fact that they just toured to tour. No new album to promote. Just out to play. I’ll upload pics from the show soon!
I’m so thankful I went to Venice after I graduated university. With all the fuss over whether Venice will sink or swim always on the table, well, if it’s the former, I’m just glad I got to see it when I did.
Now, with budgets getting cut faster than a Chuck Norris enemy, I’m thinking I need to jump on South Florida’s beloved Tri-Rail ASAP. Can you believe I grew up in South Florida and yet I have never set my size 6 1/2 foot (just thought I’d mention in case anybody wants to send me cute shoes…hey, you never know!) on the Tri-Rail?!? For those of you geographically misplaced outside of the tri-county (get it?!) area (Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach), the Tri-Rail is a commuter rail service that runs from Miami to Palm Beach. Just this week, officials said if they can’t get more funding, Tri-Rail services may shut down within two years, and the number of trains will start to decrease as early as next year. (Read more about it here.)
This news makes me feel bad for cursing at the two Tri-Rail trains yesterday for holding me in traffic.
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