This Week's Craving

2 words - Cherry Ripe.
Craving satisfied thanks to a teeny weeny Cherry Ripe c/o Pete.

But where am I gonna find a Balfour's Meat Pie & a goonbag of cheap red?
Noice.

A New One ...

It's been a fun Labour Day long weekend. A lot of Yanks seems to travel, but CH & I didn't have time to organise anything, so the long weekend was spent in Chi-town catching up with friends, eating & shopping - can't complain about that!
We managed to check out a Cocktail Lounge called Japonais, located on the banks of the Chicago River & which has by far has the best cocktails that I've tried in the city. Their signature cocktail has a real orchid flaoting in it. Noice.

We also dined at some new sure-to-be favourites : Feast and Bite, both in our foodalicious neighbourhood.

Then we had a barbie for a friends birthday, where we met some rowdy US Navy sailors. These boys drank vodka like a fat kid drinks Coke. They also taught me a new saying, which I assume is in retaliation to the "Once you go black, you never go back".
"Once you go Asian, you nver go Caucasian".
Take that you 'Gwei-los'!

The Final Crikey

It would be totally un-Aussie of me if I didn't send a big shout out to the late Steve Irwin. Though often the butt of many Aussie jokes, & also being the reason why many Yanks ask me to say 'Crikey!'; he was still a bloke with a big heart & a 2 lil tackers to support.

It's been all over the US news, so the guy obviously made his mark in the world.

My favourite episode of the Croc Hunter is the episode where it takes on spitting cobras, and of course cops several rounds of venom in the eyes, without any water on hand. Classic Irwin.