Our weekend and a language lesson

We spent all day Saturday in the car, driving around looking at cars.  On Sunday, we drove down and looked at a car for me.  Well, for the family.  Everytime anyone says the car is for me, Jay corrects us and says "for the family."  It is a 2010 Kia Rondo.  It only has 2500 km on it which is not very much at all.  It is also cheaper than anything else we've looked at.  We tried to put a deposit on it, but the man said he'd trust us to come back and buy it.  Of course, we got an email from him this morning asking for a deposit afterall.  So I will have a car once we get the money from NGC, which should be this week sometime. 
The plan is to go buy Jay a car this afternoon. 
After looking at the car yesterday, we stopped at the Australian Reptile Park.  It was really cool.  I love that Australian wildlife parks and zoos are very hands on and up close to everything.  When we first arrived, we saw a schedule of events and it mentioned a venomous snake demonstration.  We walked over to the area and found some seats.  Two handlers brought 1 Australian snake (Tiger snake) and an American snake (Western Diamondback Rattlesnake).  They demonstrated how to milk a venomous snake and then walked around the ring and we got to see it up close.  After the demo, we followed those two guys over to the Saltwater crocodile pit.  We got to watch them feed Elvis who is over 5 meters long!  It was really cool and I wish we'd had our camera.  I'd accidentally left it in the car and didn't want to go back for it.  Jay ended up going to the car for jackets and the camera later.
The park is the only place that milks venomous snakes and spiders in Australia for the anti-venom program.  We watched another demo later that talked about the funnel web spider (most venomous in the world!) and how to catch them.  If you are wondering why we'd want to catch them, don't worry, so was I.  Funnel web spiders are nocturnal and want to hide when the sun starts to rise.  They can dehidrate quickly in sunshine.  They are very easy to catch if you know how, which I do now.  The guy said that the group of people most often bit by spiders and snakes are boys, aged 6-18 (playing around and showing off for their mates).  Group number two is men aged 24-46 (playing around and showing off for their mates).  He told all the kids that if they see a spider, they should get their mum.  Funnel web spiders cannot jump or climb slick surfaces so a plastic or glass jar works perfect.  Once you catch one, you turn it into the local hospital and they will give it to the Reptile park so it can be park of the anti-venom program. 
We had a great time and loved petting kangaroos.  The boys thought it was really cool.  We'll have to visit them again.   

So despite the fact that English is the lanuage spoken here, there is certainly some new stuff we have to pick up.  Here's an Aussie language lesson for you.
Any sort of delivery or larger truck: Lorrie
Pickup truck: Ute
Ketchup: Tomato Sauce (pronouced as to mot o sauce)
Sprite: Lemonade (really messed me up when I ordered a lemonade and ended up with a sprite)
Fries: Chips (most of the time, unless they are curly fries, then they are called fries)
Chips: Crisps
Raisens: Sultanas
Cookie: Biscuit
Chicken: Chook (this refers to a live chicken, cooked chicken is just chicken)
Sweater or light jacket: jumper
diaper: nappie
Bell pepper: Capisum
There are lots of other slang things that we have learned, but aren't really appropriate to share.  I'm sure that there are other everyday things that I just can't think of right now.