Happy Australia Day!!!

Australia Day was celebrated in style. Our mate Richo brought some Aussie mates over from Oxford, Pete and Jess traveled over from Reading and they joined the Felsted Aussie contingent consisting of us two, two Australian GAP students and one Kiwi GAP student (token Aussie).

The party started with a barbie and beers under the gum tree in the back yard, whilst listening to the replay of the triple j hottest 100 in the background.

After downing a few snags (of the famous Felsted variety) and watching highlights of another English cricket demolition in the hands of the Aussies, we got the real shindig goin’.

The lamingtons and ANZAC bickies were a fair dinkum hit with the locals, but Skippy the blowup kangaroo got a puncture. There was a Scottish invasion when a group immigrated to the Aussie party from a Burns night celebration late in the evening. We were drinking beers like they were going out of fashion and we were all trend setters.

A traditional Aussie bacon and egg fry up the following morning got us pumped for another big bbq lunch, some backyard cricket (under the gum tree) and a safeway pav sent all the way from Australia in a box, especially for the occasion by one of Jess’ mates. (Thanks Jess’ mate!) We dolled it up with some whipped cream, strawberries and kiwi fruit and it was a ripper! We then blew away some of the hangover cobwebs by lounging around and watching the new Aussie flick “Kenny”.

It has been decided that from now on we should not just celebrate one day of Australia day, but make it a three day celebration of everything Aussie! Gotta love it!