The things I have loved

Things I have loved about the USA and Canada...

Looong pants... I have discovered a wonderful store in Canada called Reitmans. They have extra long pants and jeans for us gals who have extra long legs. Also Target in the US have long pants as well. Come on Australia, hurry up and start catering for those of us who are over 6 foot.

Cheap clothes, shoes and accessories... the prices for clothes here in the USA are half the price of the clothes we have in Australia. It is just not fair. Consider yourself lucky Americans.

IHop... Let me just say that I love restaurants that serve a breakfast menu all day long, and I love all you can eat pancakes!

Superstores... I love having department stores that have supermarkets in them as well. Our Target stores back home are just department stores, they don't have groceries in them.

Snow... we have snow in Oz but not where I live so getting to live in the snow was a new thing for me.

Things I have not really loved about the USA and Canada...

Expensive cell phone calls and text messages... Ouch the cell phone calls are expensive here. You have to even pay when you receive a message here. It is stupid.

Serving sizes in restaurants... They are HUGE which always means I eat way too much. A regular coke from McDonald's here is the equivalent of a super size coke back home in Australia!

Big cars... Everybody seems to drive really big trucks here, they take up the road and the car parking spaces. I cant wait to get back to some normal sized cars, fuel efficient people and they are cheaper to run.

Chocolate... The chocolate here is not as nice as our chocolate back home. Ours is much more creamier and tastier. I cant wait to sink my teeth into some Cadbury's Black Forest chocolate!