As difficult as it was to get these crazy Canadians to understand what "come 'round at middee to have some snags and a pav" meant, we celebrated Oz Day 2006 with an attempt at an Aussie BBQ with our friends here. After much clarification as to the starting time, minus the rain, slush, wind and the fact that when we suggested we go outside around the barbie, we were confronted with faces of sheer confusion - our party went off with a bang and we were proud to call Australia home (Dave soon realised not to play that song to Dan though, unless he wanted to wipe away the homesick tears!)
Mum (aka "Dan") baked some home-made Aussie delights - a damper, lamingtons and good ol' choccie crackles. Mum did let the child in her come shining through at times though... But we wonder how Dan's face ended up like that (...Dave?!)
Most of the Aussie favourites were well-received, except Dan's banning of peanut butter and her forcing everyone to accompany their damper with large servings of vegemite! BTW: We're currently sharing/rationing a tube of vegemite with our Aussie friends who live up the street. The supermarket still hasn't replaced the last jar that was excitedly purchased by Dan 2 months ago and Dave is getting sick of spending weekends hunting through Vancouver for the stuff!! Hint Hint...
"Happy Oz Day" from Czarina and Kari,
Kelly and Maarten...
Sonya, Isabelle and Mark... (How cute is she?!)
John and Hannah...
And of course Czarina and our favourite - the highlight of the day - Bruce the Koala!
The party was such a success that by the end of a day filled with Aussie songs, snags and slang, they were all lining up for shares in vegemite and tomato sauce (the word 'ketchup' was also banned for the day) and all were keen to learn the words to "Your the Voice". Lamington recipes were handed around and all thumbs were up. As hard as they all tried though, none of them managed to get the "Aussie" thing quite right (note the flags!) ... Dave and Dan still have a lot of work to do here by the looks of things!
Our flatmate Nicole - you would have thought living with us for 3 months would have taught her to fly our flag the right way! At least she loves Lamingtons though!!
And the dutchies Ad and Maarten - no hope.
3 comments:
Well D&D, we just want to tell you why the Dutchies keep your flag upside down...thats just how we see OZ on the other side of the planet! greetings from Den Haag, Maarten
nice photo there of the Dutchies!!
Ariane C
More to the point, how did Dan's face get clean afterwards??
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