Only In Australia

As many of you know, Grandpa Norton has a huge sweet tooth and loves his milkshakes. He especially loves chocolate and banana ones. The entire trip they had been promising to take the kids to get a milk shake and so we thought one of our stops along the Great Ocean Road would be to do just that. Well, we did get a milk shake, but it did not turn out to be what we wanted...it was just flavored milk that had been shaken up. Ummmm....yuck. When we stopped in Lavers Hill we were just going to get an ice cream snack, but Grandma saw that they had milk shakes for $5.50 and all except Jared opted to go that route. I thought that $5.50 was a bit steep, but since Grandpa was paying I was all for getting it. The guy behind the counter told us that we could get flavored milk for the kids from the cooler, but I told him that no they really wanted a milk shake (I mean really, who would want to substitute flavored milk for a milk shake). What came out was a 32 oz. cup filled with warmish milk that had two squirts of flavoring with bubbles on the top which indicated that it had indeed been shaken up! The moral of the story is when in Australia order Thick Shakes not Milkshakes!

Although this isn't an overly large edifice (which means that John doesn't classify it as such), Australians deemed it necessary to celebrate their milk that has been shaken up. These are found in Tongala, Victoria.