Tuesday, November 11, 2008

November 10th…..Another country????.....

YAY!!!! We woke up and went swimming for hours! We swam 35 laps for some exercise and then had a little fun. I love pools! And I love that it was warm enough for us to do that! After we had enough swimming, well enough sun really, we started driving again.

Our purpose of coming back to Kalbarri was to go to a place called Hutt River Province which is technically another country within Australia…a principality. They pride themselves on being the second biggest country on this continent. The prince was sick, but we got the official country tour from Princess Shirley. We exchanged some money since they have their own currency, sent come postcards from their post office and even got our passports stamped. Somehow this family who owned this province found some loopholes in the laws and were able to become their own entity. They even went to war with Australia and won! I can’t even begin to explain how all this happened, but I am pretty sure you can look it up if you are that interested. I don’t want to bore anyone with the technical details. Just know that I have been to a new country! 3 since I left America. Well, 4 really. Woah.

We kept driving down the long, dirt roads and went back to Geraldton because I wanted Subway for dinner. As always. We also wanted to see a movie in the theater since it’s been so long. We got to the small theater and realized just how far out of touch we’ve been because we hadn’t even heard of any of them. We had to have the guy tell us what they were about and decided to just see the comedy. We saw ‘How to Lose Friends and Alienate People’. Please, please, please don’t waste your money. It was so stupid. However, it was pretty good to just hang out in the air conditioning.

Then we got back on the road just to get a bit further. We ended up in Port Denison pretty late and just went to bed. No mice tonight!!!!

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