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MrsPeacefrog
January 25th, 2006, 04:49 PM
HAPPY AUSTRALIA DAY


I hope you all have a great day with your families. I know there aren't many of us Aussies on here but for the few that are here thought I would wish you all a great day!

Have a safe holiday! :hug99:

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Bridget
January 25th, 2006, 06:18 PM
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Happy Aussie Day from someone who Loves our Aussies!
MrsPeacefrog
January 25th, 2006, 06:26 PM
awww :hug99: thanks Bridget!
Nichole
January 25th, 2006, 06:27 PM
Happy Australia Day, friends! :party3:
Melissa
January 25th, 2006, 06:32 PM
I was actually going to ask you about Australia day. The Disney channel is having a huge Australia day thing tomorrow. All of their children's programming will revolve around it (Wiggles of course and Koala Brothers, etc...).

Have a Happy Australia Day!
Eva
January 25th, 2006, 06:42 PM
Happy Australia Day!!!
MrsPeacefrog
January 25th, 2006, 06:42 PM
:hug99: thanks.

Melissa: yeah we are having a wiggles marathon on disney playhouse today too. the kids are loving it, but I am going to have to drag them away from it soon cause we are heading over to my parents for a BBQ
Clare
January 25th, 2006, 07:31 PM
Thanks everyone :) You have a good one too Deb!

We're not doing anything. Alex is gardening and working on his shed. I am going to drag him away at some stage though to take the kids for a swim.

Australia Day is the BIG DAY here in Perth b/c of the SkyShow. Tonight there will be a huge fireworks display over the city and Swan River. People will be sitting out there now (at 8am) to get a good position. Tomorrow they will start the countdown to next year (364 days to SkyWorks). I just don't get it. You've seen one firecracker, you've seen them all. :dunno:
Dennis
January 25th, 2006, 09:52 PM
Happy Australia Day!
Michele
January 25th, 2006, 09:57 PM
Happy Australia Day!
MrsPeacefrog
January 26th, 2006, 06:13 AM
:lol: Clare... I guess its like the Sydney NYE fireworks, people camp out for days to get good positions...

We didn't do anything overly special either, Tony slept cause he is on nightshift at the moment and I spent the majority of the day at my parents house learning to cook some of her signature dishes and watching Australia beat Sri Lanka in the cricket! go the aussies!


thanks Dennis & Michelle
sheila
January 26th, 2006, 07:57 AM
Happy Australia day!
Bev
January 26th, 2006, 08:21 AM
Sorry I missed it! Hope it was great! :balloons:
MamaGoofy
January 26th, 2006, 09:37 AM
Dang! I missed it! Sorry!! I hope you had a great day.

What is Australia Day? Just a day to celebrate Australia? Kind of like 4th of July here in America?
Clare
January 26th, 2006, 07:19 PM
Dang! I missed it! Sorry!! I hope you had a great day.

What is Australia Day? Just a day to celebrate Australia? Kind of like 4th of July here in America?

Yep, same thing. :nod:
MrsPeacefrog
January 26th, 2006, 07:23 PM
Dang! I missed it! Sorry!! I hope you had a great day.

What is Australia Day? Just a day to celebrate Australia? Kind of like 4th of July here in America?

Yep thats it :nod: its the official day that the first fleet landed and captian arthur phillip took formal possession of the colony... in 1788......

So lots of fireworks, first fleet reinactments on the harbour and basically people having the day off to drink beer the most australian thing of all to do :nod: :lol:
MrsPeacefrog
January 26th, 2006, 07:23 PM
oh oops clare already answered
Bridget
January 26th, 2006, 09:49 PM
So do people shoot off fireworks on their own (day and night) or mostly go to big fireworks shows? It's a combo here, and I'd presume the same there, but didn't know if the laws regulating fireworks were different.

Out where I live we could pretty much launch a truckload of TNT if we wanted to, but in towns/cities and some states it's much more restrictive.
MrsPeacefrog
January 26th, 2006, 10:04 PM
actually no, its illegal now to shoot off your own fireworks.... years and years (I am going back 20 years ago) we used to have "firecracker night" in June where we would buy fireworks and every house in the country would go nuts with them, but after many many years of injuries and deaths due to misuse, they were banned. Of course you can still get them "illegally" and we have gotten some and snuck down the park and let them off, but if caught its a big fine!!

So to answer your question, basically going and watching a professional display.
Clare
January 27th, 2006, 12:31 AM
Deb, I wouldn't have thought you were old enough to remember cracker night :lol: It was a big deal to have your own fireworks when I was a kid, but as Deb said, they've been illegal for many years now. The most we can buy are sparklers.
MrsPeacefrog
January 27th, 2006, 03:43 AM
yeah just scraped in! definatley remember it, if I recall I was around 9-10 when it finally got banned! DEVISTATING! :lol:
Bridget
January 27th, 2006, 06:09 AM
Ah. That's too bad. Well if you ever get the chance, come on over here to the good old US of A for a visit when fireworks are on sale. We love blowing things up. :rolleyes:

:lol:

Fireworks are dangerous though. There are always injuries. I remember lighting off those tiny firecrackerrs called ladyfingers as a kid. We had a lot of old fence posts, and we'd stick them in the holes and light them. Sometimes the fuses went too fast and one blew up in my face. I remember it looked just like an explosion in a cartoon - billowing smoke interspersed with red, tiny bits of paper, etc. Lucky I didn't go blind.
Lyoshka
January 27th, 2006, 11:22 AM
Sorry I missed it, I know you had a great day-YEAH!!!