Happy Australia day everyone

I'll try and jump on with some pics tomorrow night, depending on what time I get back.

Well, we are home......had an awesome morning, noon and night!!

First over to parents for lunch, then out with friends for dinner, then took the kids up to see Balcombe heights first ever Australia Days festivities....wicked fireworks, rides ,live bands and show bags ....did I mention the wonderful fireworks?

I got some great pics...Mary will be proud.

lol...am too pumped for bed....whooooot!!

Lunch at parents.

Yummy lunch ....Typical Australia day lunch.

My stepfathers flag, one of several....lol

Quite the patriotic family indeed.

I took this as we were on our way out the back gate to the steak house.

Note my parents artificial windmill.....lol cute.

lol...I'm improving my fire works photography....helps being up nice and close.

And I wasnt even alergic to these ones....yipeeee

Yipeeeeeee

I'm a bit tired, so will post some more tomorrow.


Happy Australia day everyone....

An unusual spin on the traditional Australian pavlova ...sugar roasted hazelnuts , with hazlenut liqueur with vanilla bean cream and just strawberrys on top.

We were getting a bit tired of the traditional Pav, so thought we'd have something different this year.....well, it hit the spot.

:)Anyway...thats it...am off to bed after this next pic...

One slice just wasn't enough!!! lol

Night guys.

xoxox

And of course, Australia day celebrations aren't complete without lamingtons ...even if I bought these ones...rather than made them myself.

lol

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Anyone else celebrate Australia day?


If so...what did you get up to?


..btw, those lobsters weren't local, were probably the worst lobsters I have ever eaten.

Flavourless, not sweet, dry and just really wished I had have got to the seafood shop before all the good ones (local) were snapped up.


The oysters and prawns made up for it though.

Yummy good spread.

Thanks for sharing the pics.

The lobsters were atrocious however.... a bit of a downer..

They looked ok under the florescent lighting in the seafood shop.

They looked fine in the photo

Lol..trust me they were as dry as a bone...ok, i'm probably winging, but even my stepfather waited for me to whinge about them before he agreed with me lol


I thought because they were little ones, they would be sweet....bit like school prawns....boy was I wrong.

Never mind, the oysters made up for it.

Regarding lobsters....

When I lived in Wollongong many years ago, I had a mate who did a lot of diving.

He used to bring me some lovely 'freshies', still alive, they were bloody superb, almost TOO nice to eat.

How lucky were you!!! Must be disappointing not to get them anymore

Katanyavich wrote:

Regarding lobsters....

When I lived in Wollongong many years ago, I had a mate who did a lot of diving.

He used to bring me some lovely 'freshies', still alive, they were bloody superb, almost TOO nice to eat.

Lol, I'll give you my phone number just before Xmas so you can pass it on to "OUR" friend for me


Just how lucky are you to have fresh lobster... Yummo!!!