I've Arrived!

I'm finally in Australia.  I made in in yesterday.  The flights were insane.  At every stopover my ticket was incorrect so the airline would have to issue me a new one and it always took forever so I never got a break.  I would sit and sit on crowded plane then fight the airline that I'm supposed to be on the next flight and finally I'd be running it board the next flight on which I would sit and sit.  At least my suitcases made it with me (the airline forgot my friend's suitcase in LA).  One thing that didn't make it with me, though, is my cell phone - I lost it on the flight from NY to LA (go figure!).  Hopefully my dad can get it mailed to NJ - (Thanks Abba!).
Oh - and the flights didn't have kosher food for me - but I had cheerios and chocolate.  I was going to have some Dunkin Donut stuff - like a coffee roll I really wanted - but of course when I went to the 24 hour Dunkin near my home it was closed for renovations - I took a picture to prove it on my cell phone! 
I've also come across 2 people already that will be studying at the Uni of Mel - pretty decent!
Well it's friday here - I totally slept in while my friends went out and now I'm home alone.  One of them should be back shortly.
And I went out last night to town - we went to this frozen yogurt place called igloo zoo - at first I thought we were really going to a zoo and was uber excited and then let down.  The yogurt place was actually frozen yogurt though - it didn't taste like ice cream at all.  We then wandered down a river in Mel called the Yara river and crossed a funky bridge. And I most definitely forgot my camera at friends house for all of this!
I'll write again soonish.

It's a bird, It's a plane, It's delayed!

First off the fact that i am writing in my blog so much is cuz im stranded i do not believe this is going to be a daily thing - but who really knows!
Well here's a summary of my flights: I was scheduled to leave monday Dec 27 at 6:20pm. Stop in LA and fly to Melbourne.  It was cancelled.  I then got a flight for Wednesday Dec 29 at 6:30pm.  Stop in LA and fly to MEL.  Then my dad got them to get me on flight tonight (even though the airline said it was totally booked).  The new flight was supposed (past tense is on purpose!) to leave at 6:30 tonight.  Stop in LA stop in Woodoak? and fly to MEL.  The NY flight has now been delayed 3 hours.  I am now missing the LA and on flight! AH!  Hopefully I will get on a different flight in LA when I arrive there - hopefully tonight.  Can everyone please pray for me? thanks! the best part about all of this is that there is this amazingly sweet family in melbourne that is willing to drive 40min to pick me up at the airport.  I have never met these people and I keep changing the time and date on them.  soon theyre just gonna give up on me (God forbid)!
Well it seems as though the misadventures have begun and Im not even in a foreign country yet.

OH sNOw! (cheesy, eh.)

According to my brother (and I believe he heard this on the news) my city, Elizabeth, has received 31 inches (yup, over 2 feet) of snow.  I've been outside and it's quite white.
Here are a few pictures (I plan on making a snowman tomorrow too):

It's snowing poop

I thought the curse was over but it seems that everything still turns to poop!  If you don't know what I mean, I'm referring to a not so distant week in which everything, and I mean everything, went wrong.  My cell phone broke, the rock climbing wall lost it's heat the one day I planned to go, the cake I baked was dairy (for shabbos), 3 mixers stopped on me, and I'm sure I'm forgetting a few mishaps.  Since then I've received a new phone, baked a fine cake, went rock climbing, and 3 new mixers were bought.  But now it's snowing and my flight has been canceled.  I knew this would happen but I was hoping it wouldnt.  The worst part is that all the flights leaving Tuesday are full (because my flight wasn't canceled untiul today).  Now I'm leaving Wednesday night from JFK instead of the airport that' only 10 minutes from home and I'm arriving Friday morning - just in time for Shabbos! One good thing about the delayed flight is something else that turned to poop - my plans for the first week of arrival.  The nanny people emailed me yesterday saying that there isn't room for me at the summer house (which sucks because I was looking forward to living on the beach).  So, I became homeless.  Now that I'm getting in Friday and I already have Shabbos plans I don't need to worry about sleeping in the street my first couple of nights! Although I still need to find a place to stay Sunday thru Thursday.  Then on Thursday I'm (God-willing) flying to Sydney and staying until Sunday morning (January 9) at which time the nany people want me.  Yup, my plans got "mucked" up (as they say in Australia!).

And I apoligize for all the screwed grammer and spelling - I'm just typing without proofreading.

On my way... I hope

So, I've created my blog. I think it's kind of cool looking.  Very apropos. 
I've packed.  Although I still need to go by some things such as deodorant - but that's not too important. 
All I need to do is get on the plane and sit for hours.  Then transfer to a second plane and sit for hours and hours and hours.  Hopefully the airport security won't take away my play dough.  If they do, I might be very bored.  Which reminds me I want to pack a coloring book and some crayons.
I'm quite excited about getting away from the winter weather.  Summer here I come... well I hope.  Winter seems to want to put on a big show for me before I leave.  Yup, I'm hinting at the massive blizzard the weathermen are talking about. Hopefully their wrong (they often are). 

Well you'll all find out when I get there...
Later