Saturday, May 19, 2018

We're all packed and just sitting here till we need to check out at 10:00--a couple hours. Our plane doesn't leave until 2:00, so we have a lot of down time. Everything is so expensive here. The hotel, for example, offered us a take-along breakfast for $38 Aus, which consisted of cereal bars, a piece of fruit, and a bottle of water. We declined, and went to the grocery store and bought the same stuff for a lot less. The hotel offers sit-down dinners for $49. We have not taken them up on that either. We've eaten several PBJs for lunch, shared a pizza one night, etc. One of the reasons that food is so expensive here is that food service people are paid a living wage, and tipping is not necessary. I did see a "tip" jar at the place where I bought some fish and chips (we call them fries.

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