Real security officers would be more concerned with public indecency...

Newport Hotel - a great bar/dancing place in Freo to go get your dance on with yo gurls on the weekends. Except when it closes early on Sunday nights, in which case, it's not that exciting of a place to be. They also take pictures and then put them on Facebook, so you can tag yourself in them and feel really cool and official.

Our kitchen/eating area is right on the street and has windows that allow us to see a lot of weird things that happen on the weekends. Including three naked men walking down the street late on a Friday night. It's not a good thing to lose a drunken bet, or at least that's the advice they gave us (oh, our windows are not soundproof whatsoever).
Ish. Sorry, but it was an event momentous enough to be worth sharing.

So there's a train here that takes you all over the city and anywhere from here to Perth. You put credit on a card and then scan the card at a card-scanner station each time you get on and off the train.
So. We were coming home on the train from the beach and I was the last one in the group to use the scanner, which, for no apparent reason, kept blinking red each time I tried to scan it. And trust me, it's important to scan right because the train security guards WILL hunt you down and find you. Finally got it to blink green! Ran to the train as it was pulling away from the station! Watched sorrowfully as Molly, hand outstretched, moved slowly down the tracks. Without me.
So, alone and upset, I waited for the next train. Got on the train (having already got the scanner to be green), super happy to be headed toward Freo, when the infamous officers came to check my card. Oh, no worries, I did everything right, I'm not gonna get fined today. 
WRONG.
Somehow, something had gone wrong, and I was "not successfully tagged on to the train, resulting in an automatic $100 fine". Rude! And here I am, an American who doesn't know anything, alone and just wanting a fresh mango and a shower at home. So, did I manage to plead myself out of the situation? I'm not sure. I'll find out when I try using my card again.

People here don't like it when you try to walk on the right side of the sidewalk. I didn't know that was something that was dependent on the side of the road you drive on, I thought EVERYONE EVERYWHERE passed each other on the right side of the sidewalk.
...or MAYBE people drive on different sides of the road because of the way they walk on the sidewalk... O.o

This week's forecast - 95 and sunny all week. That's 35 degrees Celsius in case you were wondering.

If you're in Minnesota, please enjoy the snow for me as I cannot, and I won't see it again for another 8 months.

School? Oh umm....school. Today is a Labour Day (no school), tomorrow I have one class at 5 pm, and Wednesday I have off. So, I'll keep you posted!