When Did We All Become So Australian?

I was going to tell you all about Australia Day in today's blog and what everyone got up to yesterday on the public holiday. I have not ventured outside into the public arena for years and years on this day, so I thought we could all learn about it together. It was a fine summers day and there were lots of events organised both publicly and privately for me to attend. So I set off in good spirits and in high hopes of collecting a good little story to come back with.

But when I went out to observe people yesterday with my trusty camera in tow, everyone was so weird that I thought nahhhh I can't do this. It was just too embarrassing, I really think we are quite a strange lot here in Australia, and we seem to be getting worse every year too. I have to ask... when did everyone become bogans, I was not amused! In fact, I was shocked and terrified at what I saw..... who are these people?

Gosh maybe we are turning into American's, when did we all become so patriotic??? Everywhere I looked people were draped in flags... that is just 'un-Australian', isn't it??

They had flag shorts, flag bathers, flag thongs (as in the Australian kind, not the American kind), flag socks, flag underwear (erm on the outside of their clothing... excuse me???), actual flags tied around their necks, flag t-shirts, flag chairs, flag sunny's (sun glasses for the uneducated), flag umbrellas, flag backpacks, flags on cars, temporary tattoo flags and flag everything else you could possibly think of.... when did we get so weird..... so...American, (if you are American and reading this, I mean it in a nice way for you, but we are not you, if you know what I mean).

I was truly embarrassed just looking at them. This holiday has turned into a circus act and it was the 'scary clowns' who were taking over the show....  It was then that I had to run and hide.... NO Australia Day observations from me today, no sir-ree bob! I had seen enough.

So I packed up my camera and headed for my car, dodging 2 games of cricket being played side by side, dodging the crazy teenage boy draped in the boxing kangaroo kicking a blow up aussie beach ball up a steep hill and finally dodging  two little terrified kids skateboarding down that same steep hill right towards me, before falling off their boards conveniently right in front of me.

Yep luckily I did not write about my day, luckily I did not bore you will all the scary details, luckily I found something else to write about today... now what was that other thing I was going to write about,  ummm...