One peculiar aspect of Australia that I haven't quite gotten used to is floor numbering. In the US, the ground floor is the first floor, and it goes upward from there. In Australia, the ground floor is 'G', and the floors go up from there. This makes it misleading when you want to use the stairs, as everything seems one level higher than it should.
This has led to no shortage of good-natured(?) discussions between Shelby and me about how to get to our apartment on the third (really, fourth) floor. I think we should take the elevator because, like refrigeration and pre-packaged soap, one could conceivably do without, by why would you choose to? Shelby's counterargument is that it wastes energy and she likes pretending she is a yak.
Our compromise for now is that if it is after 3PM and Shelby does not yet have 10,000 steps on her Garmin watch (the step counter of record on this trip), we will walk up and down the stairs. Though we have been getting a lot of activity. It is now 2PM and I'm already at 8,978 steps on my unofficial step counting watch. By the time we pick up Eli, it will almost certainly be 10,000 steps.
And we should get more tonight when we go to the elimination playoff game between the Melbourne Demons and the Geelong Cats. Excited for our first playoff game!
