Well many of you would have known that it was Australia Day yesterday! It is such a fun, and exciting day. It is usually stinking hot, and there is just this amazing atmosphere! People the week before start adding flags to their car, and wearing all sorts of Australiana paraphenalia, it tell ya, it is fun, fun, fun.

We have fireworks at a suburb really close to where I live, and we usually go there as it is easy with the kids and you all get parking etc……but this year Rod really wanted to take all the kids into the city to see the really big skyshow there. I was not too sure how it would go, because usually they have road blocks, and to find a car park is a mammoth task……and then the walking with all the gear…chairs, esky, hats, suncream, drinks……and with 4 kids…….. you can just imagine, can’t you!

Anyway I felt up to the challenge this year, and Rod really wanted to go, ………so go we did.

I tell ya we couldn’t have gotten a better spot. We left home at 2pm and drove straight into Perth…no traffic???

Then we get straight into a carpark, with hardly any cars…….right on the foreshore????

Surely this can’t be real?????

We had a car park bay that we backed into with the van and opened up the boot, we had the best view ever!!! Right on the grassed area, safe for the kids, and guess what?  NO walking, NO whinging kids, protection from the sun, AND our built in speaker system with the car right there……… too easy!

So since we arrived there so early…… because thefireworks don’t start till 9pm, and we were there at 2:30pm we had some time to kill. It was great though because our neighbours (parked next to us) got a Cricket game happening so we all played that for hours. Rod also took the kids to the mega ferris wheel that is here in Perth at the moment……being not a big fan of heights I manned the post LOL!

There was such a great ambience to the day,……SO many people dressed up….like this:

This is two random chicks I raced over to take a pic of, because I thought they looked great!

(thanks random chicks for the pic!)

During the afternoon there was quite the skyshow with all these stunt planes, parachuters landing, water skiing, sailing races, speed bike racing, a concert (which Tiarne thought was TOO LOUD!) and heaps more.

I loved this helicopter that was flying around towing the Australian flag…..

It was huge which you can tell by the size of the helicopter.

I took a couple of random photos of different things for you to see:

this is a pic of the lawn where we were, and the city right behind us

A group right near us, who brought their paddle pool along…

You also see heaps of this……..bare chested men (usually with their underwear haning out….is that fashion?) Well I suppose they provide some entertainment on the day too……..LOL!

(thanks random guy)

Rod and Elijah playing cricket

Janaya soaking up the sunshine….

Elijah with his Flag that he got up at 6am to make….talk about excited!

Malakai having a rest in the back of the car….

Tiarne with her Aussie flag…..

Rod playing left fielder for the cricket game…

As you can see it was bright and sunny, but luckily there was a really nice breeze too. We all enjoyed the fireworks, they were amazing actually. I didn’t take any pictures of the fireworks because I don’t have a wizz-bang camera, and just knew they wouldn’t work with the one that I have.

Anyway the traffic was really good on the way home, but we still weren’t home till 11pm. And the kids well…..they were like this:

Fast asleep

All in all we were really blessed with a fabulous day celebrating Australia Day. I feel so blessed to live in such a wonderful country too!

And me? well I have saved that photo for later…..you will see in a minute!

Hope all you Aussies had a fabulous day wherever you where celebrating!

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