Australia Day 2006

Australia Day 2006-2
Originally uploaded by ami_arsenault.

January 26th was Australia day. It seems the thing to do here is have a BBQ or go downtown for festivities and fireworks. Sounds a bit like Canada Day, eh? In most ways it is though, at least at our bbq, I noticed a few differences. Here they are:

• For the most part people didn't wear the colours of the Australian flag or any representations the flag. We did did have one guest in a flag t-shirt and I had a temporary flag tatoo but that was it.
• There seems to be some tradition of men wearing Magnum PI shorts (shudder).
• Australian radio stations play countdowns of the top songs of the year. Our party revolved around Triple J's Hottest 100. Everyone tried to guess the top songs of the year. Sadly, I didn't guess any correctly.

I think I can say good times were had by all on the 26th. I thought the countdown was a particulary nice addition to the day. Shots for getting a song wrong were a bit harsh. I better start listening for next year.