Day 17– July 16, 2005: Saturday off

The plan from the get go today was to surf. Unfortunately the ocean did not agree. Flatness is all there is out there. Bummer. Instead we did the tourist thing and went to town. We had a Scandinavian shaved ice. Sooo good. This thing was the size of Jonny’s head. We all split it. Inside it had frozen yogurt, outside was shaved ice with pineapple, coconut and guava flavors. We sat on the Kona sea wall and ate it. It was really cool; a good size turtle (probably 2 ½ feet long) was swimming around about 10 feet in front of us. No pictures of it though, maybe next time. We then hiked back and now everyone is napping.

I’ve compiled a list of Aussie/NZ terms that I found funny.

Aussie --------------------------------> American

• Tea----------------------------> Dinner
• Morning tea------------------> Breakfast
• Togs, swimmers, cozzies---> swimming suits
• Ice block----------------------> Popsicle
• Sunnies------------------------> sun glasses
• Singlet-------------------------> tank top
• tipper--------------------------> dump truck
• Jumper------------------------> sweater