Oh America… it’s been too long!

Recently I started to scrapbook some photos from my trip. Yes, folks, I scrapbook. And it has reminded me of a bunch of ye olde americaland stuffs that I miss. I feel the need for bullet points!

• Massive packs of Jolly Ranchers for a low low price. To buy the same size bag here in Ozland, you’re paying about seven times what you’d pay in America. And seeing as I only really like the grape and the watermelon ones, and kept the rest for my dad to eat (he’s not picky), I’m not paying $15 for a bag of JR’s.
• Uuuh… Junior Mints. Same deal as the Jolly Ranchers. Junk food is so gloriously cheap in Americaland, and because its all imported, it costs a bajillion trillion dollars to buy out here… It’s kind of just the Junior Mints and the Jolly Ranchers that I miss in the way of food.
• Freaking out in Stairwells! Good times. Thanks for the memories, Savannah Ghosties.
• Old Navy. Sure… the clothes are cheap for a reason, but … Oh my god… The few items I did pick up last year were deliciously comfortable… I spent hours cruising around the Old Navy website, selecting a brand new wardrobe all for a low low price, only to then discover that they don’t ship to Ozland. WHY, oldnavy, WHYYYYY? *damsalindistress*…. for a while there I thought I could bribe one of my america friends with timtams, so that I could get my stuff delivered there, and then get them to send them on to me, but I don’t quite have the heart.. I think postage would ruin their own personal economy.
• Urban Outfitters. Dudes… they had MADLIBS. Massive chunky paged books FULL of madlibs. I could’ve gone mental in that place just on the books they had. But again, I’m almost sure they don’t ship to Ozland. Poohs. I also scored myself some Havaiana’s in Urban Outfitters in New Orleans in a lovely mermaid green colour. They’re metallic and I have never seen that same colour in any store here in Ozland. I always look.
• Walmart. I know its got that white trash type reputation, but we literally spent hours in those places.
• Disney. I seriously regret not grabbing more disney stuff while I was there. Mostly keyrings. I have a pluto keyring on my car keys that I got in Disneyland… (it could’ve been disneyworld, I can’t remember), and it occured to me recently… what will I do when Pluto breaks? Nothing is going to compare!? AND, you can’t get the stuff available inside the disney parks OUTSIDE of the disney parks so there is nowhere online that I can order them from. My only option is to email disneyland itself and hope to bejesus that they can find me some keyrings and send them to me… apparently they do this? It could be interesting because the sippy cup I brought back for my neice broke. Anyone know if it’s true?
• It was warm in America when we were there. It is currently not so warm in SydneyTown.
• Stopping in all those random little towns where they have giant billboards promoting prayer and abstinence.
• That whole awesome thing where I got to spend five weeks with my bestie, and met two girls who are just as awesome, became friends with them, and now stalk them via handmade postcards in the mail, or on those random trips where we actually get to see each other.

Good times, good times. I miss a lot of America. I miss travelling. I’m getting itchy feet and I’m feeling the need to get on a plane and zip off somewhere far away. I miss waking up in different cities. Waking up early, and not hating it entirely because you knew you were going to experience something amazing. I miss staying up ’till all hours of the night just chatting with my room-mate, about everything and nothing at the same time.

But mostly I miss Old Navy…