Differences between Australia and America: Pt 2

Differences:

• Australian light switches flip down instead of up to turn on, and they barely stick out of the wall.
• A cheap chicken parmagiana is 20 dollars.
• Thor is the most popular character in the Avengers.
• 14-17 hours.
• There are no big trucks.
• No one knows who Phil Wickham is.
• Steering wheels are on the wrong side of the car.
• People drive on the wrong side of the road.
• People think the left side of the road is the right side to drive on... Dont think to hard.
• Comforters are actually called "dooners" and they have cases, like pillows do in America.
• Out houses are called "long drops" haha
• People dont know what feet, inches or gallons are.

Similarities:

• People loved The Avengers.
• There are 60 seconds in a minute.
• Stick shifts, regardless that you sit to their right, still go 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, R from top to bottom, L-R
• People STILL dont like when I talk about bodily functions.
• Its funny when someones voice cracks.
• The Voice is one of the most popular television shows.
• The air here hasn't made my hair grow any thicker...
  
  Love you all bunches, I cant think of anything else for now! Peace homies and other people.

Queensland tour update.

Hey everyone! Sorry I havent updated this in forever. This is the first chance Ive had to use internet on a laptop in over a month. Queensland happens to be abundant in heat, spiders, and frogs bigger than a softball, but its lacking in opportunistic moments to blog. -_-

Basically in the last 7 weeks we have gradually toured all the way to the furthest north eastern point of Australia, the city of Cairns, and are currently slowly touring our way back to Sydney. We started by singing at Easterfest in Tiwoomba as you already know, and since have been through Brisbane, and other small coastal cities like Mackay, Morumba, Bowen (Where a lot of the movie Australia was filmed, I have pictuers :) and Charters Towers.

The weekend at Bowen was definitely a crazy one. Not because of tons of concerts or workshops or anything like that, but because my Visa was supposed to expire on that weekend. For those of you that werent aware of my situation I came over here on a temporary travellers Visa with the expectation thata lawyer would get me a more long term one while I was here. The lawyer had really been droppin the ball and as more and more things fell through it came down to crunch time. The day before it expired he told us we could go to Brisbane, Melbourne, or Sydney (the cities with immigration offices) and get a 3 month Visa extension handed to me. Sandra was a little frustrated that he waited til the last second to tell us this... but she got me on a plane the next morning and I flew to Brisbane for the day just to extend my Visa. It was a time that really tried my faith and trust in God, but on my way there I was at complete peace about the situation. I knew that God had brought me here, and that if He wanted me to stay He would hook it up so that my extension was granted.

Its about 4 weeks later and Im still here, so you know how the rest of that story worked out. God is good :)

The week in Cairns was incredible, but exhausting. We did about 8 concerts and 14 workshops in 5 days,  and my voice was gone by the end. It was really hard. It was beautiful up there.. (lets just say im glad i went in the "winter". It was the equivalent to the same weather youre geting up in the midwest right now.

Miss you all and cant wait to see some of you at Lawrens wedding!