Australia Day

January 26 was Australia Day, so naturally we had to do something fun to celebrate.  Originally our visitors were due to arrive at noon, but due to flight trouble unfortunately we had to quickly change our plans.  Lucky for us Justin and Kelsey were free, so we had a barbeque on the beach.  We had some chicken skewers, but cooking them on the little charcoal barbeque turned out to be problematic and quite sandy due to the wind.  We also had veggies, paté and crackers, and of course, Tim Tams (an Australian cookie covered in chocolate).  My contribution was the Australia Day party hats.

It looks like we were alone on the beach, but really as far as you could see people had brought massive tents out for the occasion.  Many people brought full patio sets, and one group even carried a massive barbeque onto the beach.  Not many people were swimming, but of course we had to go in for a short swim.  The water was warm but quite wavy and unfortunately a bit dirty.

After our sun shade blew down we decided to go back to our house where we promptly polished off an additional 4 bottles of wine (on top of the beer at the beach) then cooked 4 frozen steaks for dinner.  Luckily I had ice cream cones for dessert!

Overall, despite the travel setbacks my family had, we managed to have an excellent Australia Day.  It also means we can eat our roo burgers and kanga bangas (kangaroo sausages) for dinner tonight to keep the party going!