American invasion.

I'm so tired! The past two weeks have been school holidays here. Nicole has been spoilt and circumstances has granted her 5 weeks holidays. This week Nicole and my friend's two daughter's Abbey and Jaimee have participated in a morning school holiday program. Its been run by a group of 22 American adults and teenagers from California who are out here for two weeks. They were based at one of the local churches, just up the road from me.

I've been attending with the girls and helping out a bit. The program was really well run. They did singing, played games, were read stories, watched puppet shows, did crafts, and thoroughly enjoyed the attention from the teenagers with the strange accents. Jaimee in particular was totally enamored with a girl of about 15 with long blonde hair, barbie doll looks and an identical twin sister. When asked why she liked this particular girl her answer was... she helped me a lot with my crafts.

The Americans brought a lot of their supplies (and heaps of treats for the kids) with them. Alot of it isn't available here. I found the stuff that they came out with rather interesting...

Huge Pep-O-Mint flavored Lifesavers.
They smelt like a rugby changing room on match day. And tasted much the same. Deep Heat flavored lollies....I'll pass.



Yellow Fish shaped Crackers.



Reese's Peanut Butter Cups.
Chocolate filled with peanut butter. Yuck lol



They also had dry macaroni noodles in a box instead of a bag. And they were very short compared to what we normally get, and not curved. They also gave each child a bag with torches, stickers, lollies, bubbles, elastic bracelets and a lanyard in it. Pretty spoilt.