Happy Australia Day!

Happy Australia Day everyone!

This time last year we were in Jordan, in the Middle East, drinking non-alcoholic beer because they’re muslim, and not eating any meat because it’s Hallal… :-S

Hanging out in Petra, Jordan Australia Day 2009...

This is one of my favourite days of the year for the following reasons:

• We get to do ‘Australian’ things like BBQ, eat damper, and drink beer. We’re drinking Crownies today.
• ANZAC biscuits. Need I say more?
• VEGEMITE. Only one my favourite things ever. Seriously craved it while we were o/s.
• Friends- nothing better then a day to relax and chill with friends.
• Triple J Hottest 100. So the winner has already been spilled, but it’s still good listening!

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Tags: australia, australiaday, beer, jordan, patriotism

Congratulations.

My first congratulations is to Carmen and Jeff, who got engaged on the weekend. How exciting! I can’t wait to go shopping and help her think of ideas and stuff!

We all went down to Sydney for it, and it was a really good weekend. Carmen didn’t suspect a thing, which made it so much more fun! Luke and I met up with them after the proposal, and carried around Carmen’s hoards of flowers!! Read more about it at her post: here.

I guess the only bad thing about Sydney was how I kept thinking I was in an Asian country. It actually made me upset that this iconic piece of Australia was really not Australian at all…

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My second congratulations goes to Baz Lurhman and his newest film, “Australia”. I am now incredibly proud to be an Australian, and am happy that people all over the world will see this movie, and think of Australia like this… in some way or another.

I felt that it was a really respectful representation of all types of Australians, particularly aboriginal people, and I found that it was a really interesting perspective on them. It made me want to pack up and go live in the outback. I feel like it’s almost where I belong.

I bawled my eyes out nearly the whole time, and basically just clung to Luke (poor Luke!), but it really was a great movie.

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Luke’s 21st Skydiving Adventure…

Ages ago, when Luke turned 21 I probably promised to post up the video of him skydiving. Well, as of last night I finally got round to  doing it (5 months after the event)!

So here you go, for your viewing pleasure: Luke’s Skydive!

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