Happy Australia Day!

Yesterday I experienced my very first Australia Day celebration. I got up early enough to catch a Gawler train that arrived at noon. I brought with me the ingredients to make a berry salad- strawberries, blueberries, walnuts, blue cheese (or "blue vein cheese" if you are Australian), lettuce, balsamic vinegar and a little olive oil- and beer and wine. Emma picked me up from the Gawler train station and we ran a couple of errands, then went to Hannah's house. Sara and James and Geoff and Heidi and their kids were already there. I made my salad with the blue cheese, much to the chagrin of Hannah and Sara, but both said they would give it a try even though that was an ingredient. Sam surprised everyone and showed up a little later. We hung out and made sausages and hamburgers on the grill and listened to Hot 100 and drank. It was perfect weather, as it has been for the past few days. Marie came later in the afternoon from work and joined in the fun. Sam and James put together a ping pong (or table tennis) court (well, James put it together, Sam watched and occasionally handed James screws). Geoff is a douche (just checking to see if you are reading, Geoff ;)  ). Once it was constructed, people played all afternoon (I played once and was awful, so I didn't play again). As the sun went down, the boys decided to play wizard staffs, which is where you drink lots of beer and tape each can to the end of the next can and construct a wizard staff. See picture below for visual aid. Hannah put some red streaks into my hair to celebrate the occasion, yay! All in all, it was another great day. I am going to hate being in a hostel after weekends like this. Happy Australia day everyone!