Andy Roy Breh!

"No mountain dew, no maloof crap. Just go hit as many skateparks as you can. Skate fast, get gnarley, spill blood." - a wise kook

So being that I consider my stay in Australia an extended 4 month road trip, it is only appropriate that I take the advice of this blog. So while at Chadstone mall, Australia's largest shopping center, guess what I come across? You betcha a bonsai tree stand. If this baby doesn't set the mood for the ladies in my room, I'm not sure what will.

The next set of photos are just a couple things I have picked up along the way. The first one is what has quickly become my favorite Ozzie beer. Like Budweiser in America, Carlton Draught is all over the place here. Its relatively cheap (being that an average sixer here will run you about 15 bucks, yea that's killing the old bank account!), but more importantly its delicious and dependable just like the true king of beers. And for obvious reasons I think it is also hysterically ironic that its named Carlton. Next is a photo of me and my two roommates, Carl's cousin and Ryan Mathews. Then the last few photos are just some cool picks I have taken around Melbourne.

take note of the mountain dew. I nursing a good one that morning.

And finally I need to post some of the random shit that has been crossing my mind lately. I need to give a shout out to Big Lex for this one. Living with him for a year was awesome, and he has made a ton of great calls. But more than anything else, Big Lex knows his hard alcohol and his hip-hop. He has always told me for the price and quality there is no better whiskey than Jim Bean. And living where booze is expensive I have personally found this to be true. Give it a whirl, he'll treat ya right. Next on the hip-hop side of things, If you haven't heard of him, you will soon. J.Cole is the shit. Paven I feel like you would dig it. Check him out. Anyway until next time homies, Im out! Duces!

Week 1 Breakdown in Australia

Ok so I definitely had the "O SHIT" moment as I got on the airplane... like that conversation you have with yourself like what the fuck am I doing? That feeling didn't last long though. Pretty much an hour into the flight the nerves calmed and turned to excitement. The flight itself was surprisingly smooth as well. I watched a movie then started a second one, popped a sleeping pill, and 5 minutes into the movie I was out. I woke up honestly feeling like I had slept for an hour. So thinking I still had like 1000 hours left I started reading, when an shortly after that the captain said it was time to land. After the flight I was able to get settled in and get my feet on the ground. We went on a welcome to trip to Lorne where we got to know the group as well as surfed, hiked, mountain biked, and of course raged. The trip was a blast but here are just a couple funny observations from the trip:

Recognize this guy? Yea neither did I. But it turns out that he is a fellow nazareth alumni. WTF crazy right? We are all partying and he says he is from SD so we are shooting the shit about that. You know usual small talk stuff when we get on the subject of the saints/uni, when I guess the light bulb clicks on for him. Out of no where hes just like wait you went to Nazareth.. your dad coached our basketball teams.. I was tripped out the whole night. Who knew that so many thousands of miles across the world I would run into this guy.

Australian Red Bull! What's better than Red Bull.. If you thought nothing your close. Red Bull in a bottle. Yea its that much better.

So anyway bottom line for week 1 was that it was awesome and looks like its not gona slow down anytime soon. Until next time Im out. Kroger!