A New Home, A New Blog

I'm so happy to finally kick off this blog that I've been talking about for MONTHS! This blog will be my main format for sharing my family's Australian experiences and for keeping our family and friends informed of our well-being.

For this first post, I want to explain the blog's name: The Land of Double O.

When Adrian and I first learned that moving to Australia was a possibility for us, I turned to the Internet and began Googling anything I could to learn about the place. One thing that struck me almost immediately was the number of cities/suburbs in the area that contained a double o. You see, I'm kind of partial to double o's. It's what drew me to choosing Oo's unique name. And perhaps it's that "oo" sound that led me to choosing Tru's name as well.

Look at a map of the Brisbane area, and you will find places like Toowong, Mt. Coot-tha, Kangaroo Point, and Coopers Plains. But what will most likely catch your eye are the places with DOUBLE-double-o's, like Indooroopilly, Coorparoo, Wooloowin, and Woolloongabba. They're all so much fun to say, even if I am pronouncing them incorrectly most of the time. For example, the Aussies pronounce Indooroopilly as "IN-droh-pill-eh," which is no where near as fun as saying "in-door-OO-pill-EE."

In part of our sales pitch to the kids about moving here, I told Oo about how we were moving to "the land of double o's." Naturally, she's kind of partial to double o's herself. When I seriously thought about that as the name for this blog, I did a quick search online to see if there were other blogs out there with the same name. I also did what any paranoid, out-of-touch-with-pop-culture mom would do: I checked the Urban Dictionary to make sure it didn't have some filthy meaning that I wasn't aware of. To my surprise and delight, this is what the Urban Dictionary had to say:

So there you have it. And a new blog is born.