Are you going to eat that?

We started our first day of the Easter Weekend by meeting up at Sacred Heart Cathedral (except Matt, who ditched us for breakfast with his host family). It was transfer day AGAIN, so we thought we’d start the day with a little religious observation – not really. We wanted to visit Sacred Heart Cathedral, because it’s an amazingly beautiful building and we were scoping out a location for Easter Sunday service (by the way, it’s the last Gothic Church built in the world).

After our cultural moment, we went to the Bendigo Art Gallery Café (not for the art…for the food and drink, of course) and had the best Lemon Tart in OUR LIVES!!!! FYI – we’ve tried lemon desserts at every single eating opportunity, so WE KNOW our lemon tart.

We then transferred from RC Bendigo to RC Kangaroo Flat over lunch at the Hole In One Park – and according to Trevor (who’s driving our car right now as we write this blog), they’re the best hosts we’ve ever had (he’s Matt’s current host dad).

It can’t always be fun and games, so the five of us had to get together for some real work. After all, we have a presentation on Tuesday in front of 200 of our newest friends at our farewell dinner, so we rallied to decide how to summarize our amazing trip in a whopping 15 minutes. Stay tuned – we’re going to rock the place!

Once again, Matt had to steal the show with how much better he is than the rest of us at the Bendigo Easter Weekend Carnival. He jumped on one of those crazy whirly rides (after a monster dinner, no less), with Jen’s host mom, Deb. Why do we continue to be surprised by The Amazing Matt!?

Dinner at The Match café was uber-yum, but the one thing that’s happened on this trip is that Matt and Aaron have lost all privileges on ordering their own food. It’s not so much that they’re making bad choices, but Jen and I can never decide what we want, so we choose for everyone…then we don’t have to make a decision (we’re so clever!!). In our defense, we haven’t heard the guys complain (but who would really care if they did).

Afterwards, we gathered at Jen’s host family’s house and, lo and behold, they had a hot tub and pool that needed to be broken in. So us, being the kind and polite Americans that we are, couldn’t refuse the offer to chill out in the pool. It was another late night and the 8:30 a.m. Easter Sunday Mass will be here sooner than we’d like…..