Monday, January 26, 2015

Australia Day 2015

Australia Day is the official national day of Australia. Celebrated annually on 26 January, it marks the anniversary of the 1788 arrival of the First Fleet of British Ships at Port Jackson, New South Wales, and raising of the Flag of Great Britain at that site by Governor Arthur Phillip.
No matter where we are in the world we always try to celebrate our National Day.   As we are in America we had to bring our celebration forward a day and we were fortunate to have great weather.  Considering that it is still winter we were pleased to see sunny skies today.


The weather was so kind we were able to spend time outside.




Ross had the BBQ ready to cook Australian rack of lamb.



The house was ready for our guests.


Australian meat pies to start.


Accompanied by Australia sausage rolls and prawn, avocado and mango salad, an Australian recipe.  Rusty was not too sure what this food was all about.


No Australia Day is complete without a pavlova. Sadly no passionfruit was available.


Albert was concentrating on his dessert as Ross looked on approvingly.


Robert looked for support from above to assist him in deciding what he should tackle first.


Soojin and her delightful children celebrated the day with us along with Adrian and Cameron who were busy watching TV.


So this was our day and to see what some how some Australians celebrated in Australia have a look at https://au.gwn7.yahoo.com/w1/news/a/-/local/26097698/australia-day-2015-whip-cracking-lamington-eating-thong-throwing-and-barbies-feature-as-australians-celebrate-around-the-country/
Thank you to our friends for celebrating the day with us and all the best to our Australian friends and hope your day was a good one.

Cheers Beverley and Ross

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