Pav Party

Ok-so it looks like a lot of our posts revolve around food! That's because we realised very quickly how much food affects morale and how missing food comes ever so close to missing your friends and family. The gap closes more and more the longer you are away (sorry friends and family). It is pretty hard to explain and I never would have believed it until I experienced it. We get pretty excited about food here-I mean everyone does! It's what binds all 35 nationalities together. Case in point-I heard of a recent returnee to the ship who managed to bring back several McDonalds cheeseburgers from Europe and proceeded to parade them around the ship much to the envy of the crew. We get excited about crepes in the cafe on Mondays, waffles on Fridays and hot dogs on Saturdays-the place is packed. We get excited when we get fries and pizza for dinner and the local ex-pat cafes and restaurant are packed with Mercy Shippers every weekend. I am not ashamed to admit that I have already Googled which take-away places are at each of the airports we have a lay over in-lol.

These photos are from our last Aussie/Kiwi night and we were so excited to have pavalova, Anzac bicuits, vanilla slice and lamingtons!!! Woot.

THE pav!! Thanks Robin.

Aussie crew-Russell, Nick, Robin and me.



Aussie surgeon Harry tackling the last of the pav.



Jess with our blow up kangaroo kindly donated to us by a US family.

Aussie/Kiwi crew Africa Mercy August 2011.