Australia Day adventures
The Country Mouse came to the city for Australia Day. I was so proud. “You want to see fireworks???? Sydney can show you fireworks!!!!”
Australia Day also prompted one of those ‘Green Acres’ moments the Country Mouse and I are known for. Are you ready city readers? It was AUSTRALIA DAY. We were going to the EASTERN SUBURBS BEACHES. I let the Country Mouse know we should allow an hour to get there. “Why?” he enquired “Will there be much traffic?” It is AUSTRALIA DAY. We are going in the direction of BONDI BEACH. Oh dear Country Mouse.... will there be much traffic? Only half of the resident population of Sydney and the entire backpacker population of NSW.
After a wonderful day introducing the Country Mouse to my dear cousin and her husband and trying to stay cool in and by her pool we joined a sweltering crowd in the Hordern Pavilion’s melting humidity for Jimmy Buffett’s final Australian concert*.
Well it was actually less a concert and more an indoor beach party, complete with inflatable sharks, the world sartorial record for the most Hawaiian shirts worn by middle-age men in one confined space and a crowd well lubricated with frozen margaritas.
Much to my surprise the concert prompted the Country Mouse to unleash his inner parrot head. Who knew? As he sang “fins the left, fins to the right” complete with shark fin movements, his face lit up with a boyish glee. It's moments like this I look at him and I go to mush, I was a goner again.
*Yes, it was that concert! Yes, we saw him fall off the stage! It scared the bejesus out of us – wishing Jimmy B a full recovery.
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