Paddy's Market

I've mentioned before the market that I have come to love and frequent weekly. The more I go the more I realize how good it is. A lot of the things are about half the cost of the grocery store. But the cost does change every week (daily I think). This week red peppers were $8kg and they were $2kg about a month ago. When they were $2kg I got a red pepper for about $.50. And now with the HORRIBLE exchange rate, it cost pretty much the same as US dollars. Side note, when we found out we were coming to Australia an Australian dollar got you about $0.83. Caleb tried to go ahead and exchange some money but had trouble so we didn't worry about it. When we got here the rate was $0.89US to AU$1.00. As I type this the rate is $.991 and the worst it got was $.997. So, instead of being about to take about 10% off the price of items to make us feel better about the prices it is now equal. What also stinks is we have been waiting to get our souvenirs until closer to time to come home and now that is going to cost us at least 10% more. Oh well, it stinks but nothing we can do about it. Back to the market...I really just like going for the fresh food, but they have about everything you could want or need. We finally took Caleb this past weekend. We got a few souvenirs and finally some pictures.