It’s Australia day down under today! More importantly, it’s a public holiday! Hah, just kidding. Well I am glad to have the day off but Australia day is a lot more than a day off from work :)
Today, Marc’s dad got his Australian citizenship! A very exciting occasion indeed… His dad was born in the UK many years ago and his family came to live in Australia when he was just seven (they also came to Australia by boat! How cool is that? Very Titanic-ish). I’m not sure why he’s never considered becoming a full blown Aussie for so many years, but we are all so happy to have him as ‘one of us’ now! We’ve been calling him ‘Aussie Tim’ all day.
We spent a small portion of this morning at his citizenship ceremony which was actually a very lovely thing to do. What better way to spend today than at a ceremony where hundreds of people become Australian! My favourite part is always when they sing ‘I am Australian’ which personally I think should’ve been our national anthem! It always brings a tear to my eye and gives me that warm, fuzzy, proud feeling of living in this beautiful country…
After the ceremony we headed back to Marc’s parent’s where we had a ‘fair dinkum’ Aussie BBQ. If you don’t know what fair dinkum means, google it. It’s slang. I love Aussie slang! Sometimes just to be funny, I try and throw in some very Aussie slang and colloquialism in my conversations with Marc… It either impresses him or cracks him up… Usually the latter because it sounds so awkward coming from my mouth or I use it in the wrong context…
So that’s our Australia day… Low key and feeling grateful for this land we are on…
