Patriotism

.... I think it always happens when you are away from home on a national holiday... in this case it was Australia Day... which for me ended up being Australia 3 Days. Nonetheless I pranced around the streets of NY in my newly ebay purchased Australia vintage tee and ugg boots, and basked in the fact that everyone in this city loves a good Aussie.

The weekend started with a lovely dinner at an Italian restaurant in the village with about 16 aussies and a few wannabe american-aussies... ok it was Italian food but I was in the right company... the evening ended with a few Coopers down the road and was much like any other night out... Sunday my friend Rachel had a Australia Day Barbeque...as best she could she turned her cosy studio apartment into a day at the beach... yes the -4 degrees outside kind of hampered this, but decked out in aussie shorts, bikini and covered in aussie tattoos she had snags, vegemite, tim tams, pavlova, and chocolate crackles!! amazing... i dont think I've had crackles since my 6th birthday party... and they tasted exactly the same... such memories! a taste I don't think any aussie kid can ever forget...

Sunday night, still on the Australia Day Weekend bandwagon I headed out to Williamsburg where Orly had organised a night of Australian singers... sponsored by Coopers we donned Coopers hats, t-shirts and other paraphanalia and hung out listening to a bunch of aussies strut there stuff on the stage...

Monday morning (actual Australia Day) I headed to work having passed by the Tuckshop (an aussie meat pies hole in the wall) only to find they had run out of lamingtons (I know how could this be!) and then arrived at work, slightly under the weather still sporting my aussie tattoos, albeit slightly rubbed off... by this time actually a bit over australia day. Not wanting to do much by this stage, monday night a few friends and i headed to the Sunburnt Cow, an aussie bar near my place... heading in and faced with the horrible smell of stale beer our visited lasted all of 30 seconds before we decided to head to a burger joint down the street, transforming their burgers on the menu into traditional aussie style... what a fitting way to end the celebrations.

Until next year my australians!