Aussie Joy's Life

For the first time in four years, I was home in Australia for ‘Australia Day’.  It was HOT!  Spent the morning with family and then went and saw the American band, Skillet play at the Tivoli Centre! Here are some links to memories of my ‘Australia Day’s’ in the US… Australia Day 2010 at Outback [...]

January 26 marks a special day on an Australia’s calendar – Australia Day! Officially its a day to remember the anniversary of the arrival of the First Fleet of 11 convict ships that came in from Britain in 1788. However in reality, its a public holiday where Aussie’s have a barbie, go for a swim, [...]

Yesterday we celebrated ‘Australia Day’ at Mike Rayson‘s house with the Australian legendary guitarist and showman “Tommy Emmanuel”. What an honour to meet this amazingly talented man! If you’ve never heard of him get your mind blown with his mad skills and check him out on youtube or on his website. He has an incredible [...]

Meat pies… sausage rolls… sticky date pudding… all just an excuse to have a ‘Party with a Purpose!’ Last night I had about 15 peeps rock up for a bit of a traditional Aussie dinner to raise awareness and funds for ‘Project Gulu 61′. My friends generously gave and we saw about $300 come in. [...]

True to Nashville style… double the amount of people who RSVP’d showed up to tonight’s ‘Australia Day’ celebrations at the Outback Steakhouse. I’m sure we slightly overwhelmed the waiters… who didn’t even know there was such a thing as ‘Australia Day’! The ‘Outback Steakhouse’ prides itself on it’s Australian foods… or should I say ‘Australian [...]

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