Australia Day - 26 January

AussiePam · Post by **AussiePam** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 2:53 pm

Tomorrow, 26 January, is Australia Day and - with my fellow aussies - I will be waving the flag.

Loads of celebrations, citizenship ceremonies, backyard barbies, dancing in the streets, music, eskies full of cold tinnies, beach parties, a ferry race on Sydney harbour and also a tall ships race, more barbies, etc etc fireworks..

I love a sunburnt country,

A land of sweeping plains,

Of ragged mountain ranges,

Of droughts and flooding rains.

I love her far horizons,

I love her jewel-sea,

Her beauty and her terror -

The wide brown land for me!

Dorothea McKellar

kazalala · Post by **kazalala** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 3:02 pm

Happy Australia day:D:-6:guitarist

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 3:06 pm

Happy Australia Day! Oh, a tall ship race, that will be grand!:-6

AussiePam · Post by **AussiePam** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 3:22 pm

Hi Kaz and Chonsi!! Just up the street from me there will also be celtic dancing. I might watch that. I'll certainly catch the tall ships. May get out actually on the harbour and watch the races from the water. Sydney Harbour is going to be even busier than usual tomorrow!!!

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 3:27 pm

Oh, I found three of the tall ships that are going to race, that would be fun.

kazalala · Post by **kazalala** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 3:29 pm

Sounds like its gonna be a great day:-6 wish i was there:(

mrsK · Post by **mrsK** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 3:31 pm

AussiePam;763550 wrote: Tomorrow, 26 January, is Australia Day and - with my fellow aussies - I will be waving the flag.

Loads of celebrations, citizenship ceremonies, backyard barbies, dancing in the streets, music, eskies full of cold tinnies, beach parties, a ferry race on Sydney harbour and also a tall ships race, more barbies, etc etc fireworks..

I love a sunburnt country,

A land of sweeping plains,

Of ragged mountain ranges,

Of droughts and flooding rains.

I love her far horizons,

I love her jewel-sea,

Her beauty and her terror -

The wide brown land for me!

Dorothea McKellar

I love that poem AP,so very true about Australia atm.

I hope you have a great Australia Day.

We have a big Australia Day party at the local pool.

Bbq,beers,big party for the kids,jumping castle ,swimming races,triathalons.

It's all good fun.

We are starting of with a BBQ tomorrow night.

Saturday night is night golf,yes,nightgolf then a big camp oven dinner & country music night at the club,out on the lawns so all the families can have a nice night together:-6:-6

AussiePam · Post by **AussiePam** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 5:38 pm

That sounds awesome, MrsK!!! I hope you have a wonderful celebration. I'm tossing up whether to just stay put and watch all the boatraces or to go to Manly for the day and hit the waves. Of course, to do the latter, I hafta take a ferryboat through the middle of the races... :sneaky:

Ahhhhh I can already smell burning snags and caramelised onion!!! Dripping with tomato sauce .. and all washed down with the amber fluid. Sturth, I'm bloody glad I'm an Aussie!!! (Pam swipes away a blowie)

Santanico · Post by **Santanico** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 7:39 pm

Happy Australia Day to everyone!! (Even the non-Aussies, we're not greedy)

Hope you all have a great day, remember to wear sunscreen and as most of us will be indulging in the amber fluid, please don't drink and drive, and don't let your friends either! Be safe, be friendly but above all.........BE AUSSIE!! OI!

minks · Post by **minks** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 8:15 pm

Enjoy yourselves all of you... sounds grand.

AussiePam · Post by **AussiePam** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 12:48 am

Hic

giggle

:sneaky:

Santanico · Post by **Santanico** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 1:10 am

:yh_party Woo-hoo! I'm making an early start

Cheers all!

Chezzie · Post by **Chezzie** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 1:11 am

Happy Australia Day to all our Aussie Friends

Santanico · Post by **Santanico** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 1:14 am

Chezzie;763850 wrote: Happy Australia Day to all our Aussie Friends

Thanks Chezzie!

How awesome is that picture?!

Chezzie · Post by **Chezzie** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 1:18 am

Santanico;763852 wrote: Thanks Chezzie!

How awesome is that picture?!

I know, I was there for a full 5 mins this morning...Beautiful and makes me grumpy to look out my window as its pishing down and high winds AGAIN! lol....

Santanico · Post by **Santanico** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 1:37 am

Chezzie;763854 wrote: I know, I was there for a full 5 mins this morning...Beautiful and makes me grumpy to look out my window as its pishing down and high winds AGAIN! lol....

Been raining on & off all day here, but still really warm.... we have the air-con on! Don't think you'll find many Aussie complaining about rain at the moment though, we need it really badly

G#Gill · Post by **G#Gill** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 2:40 am

HAPPY AUSTRALIA DAY to ALL our AUSSIE FRIENDS XXX :-6 :-4

AussiePam · Post by **AussiePam** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 9:44 pm

Blissful day here. People everywhere round the harbour, in boats, on shore, firing up the barbies, kids, dogs, all done up in red white and blue and waving the flag. Matilda the boxing kangaroo, posh yachts, rowboats. Everyone's singing. All shapes and colours, and from all kinds of places before they became aussies. One lone plane skywriting SORRY. For non-aussies a few limpwristeds wring their hands about the fact Australian Aborigines got conquered a few hundred years ago. Get over it. We all got conquered at some stage. Now we're all fairdinkum aussies. And that includes folk in veils, aborigines, and me, MrsK, Santanico and even the gorgeous goddess with the hairy posterior Grin.

Anyway, the ferry race was a hoot. Four of my favourite regulars were decked out in different colours. I'm not sure whether the Charlotte or the Borrowdale won, but who cares. It was a great race. The tall ships are now doing their thing. And tonight we get fireworks.

Back to the party....

:sneaky:

And I have to stay sober enough to clean up here.. heading to Canberra tomorrow and then to the States, and won't be back in Sydney till March... sob...

mrsK · Post by **mrsK** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 10:14 pm

Just came home for a quick rest up.

Thanks for the good wishes Gill & Chez.

Happy Australia Day,Pam,Fuzzy & San:-6

Hope you keep in touch Pam & enjoy don't work to hard.

Our grandson raised the Australian Flag this morning,he looked so handsome in his cadet uniform.Had a great lump in my throat.

He also came 2nd overall in the triathalon:-4

Our grandaughter is not a sport person but she had a go & that made me just as proud:-4

Might have to have a quick nanna nap & then back to the celebrations:wah::-6

AussiePam · Post by **AussiePam** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 11:12 pm

Awesome MrsK. I just came in for a quick shower. It's hot out there, and am off to dinner shortly! Going out to dinner later, and I'm starving!!!! I think it's all the wafting barbie aromas. Congrats on your grandson, and granddaughter. You must be very proud of them!!!! I will keep in touch!

Kathy Ellen · Post by **Kathy Ellen** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 9:11 am

Happy Australia to all of our Aussie friends....:-6 Hello ((((Pam))))