Queen's Birthday / Jubilee weekend

so even though the Queen was born on 21, April it was celebrated on 11 June along with her Diamond Jubilee...60 years on the throne as the reigning Queen.

Danny and I are learning plenty of new things while living in Australia... one of which is that the infrastructure for Internet sucks and that Australia recognizes Queen Elizabeth the II as its Queen.  I think that is awesome, because
a.  We have a queen
b.  We do not have to pay taxes to the Queen
c.  Just taking the statement as it is without prompting any crazy political backlash, its cool to have a Queen.

To celebrate the day off Danny and I went bananas:

took our scooter up the mountains to check Forest Park ...

Lesson #1:  wear winter / scooter appropriate clothing when taking the scooter up a mountain.

After the scooter ride in Forest Park, we went to eat at a barbecue restaurant in New Farm that we had waited for reservations for 1 week in order to commemorate our support for democracy... I mean just because we like the Queen doesn't mean we don't love democracy... 

With the exception of brunch at Ruby's in Paddington on Monday... our weekend enabled us to seclude ourselves from the rainy and cold weather filled with bags and bags of TimTams - chewy caramel flavour, amazing Domino's pizza with cheesy burst pizza crust delivered to our front door and episodes upon episodes of How I Met Your Mother, Cougartown, Archer, Walking Dead and Vampire Diaries... 

In conclusion thank you Australia for having a queen and celebrating her birthday which enabled us to have a fun weekend and we hope that France wins the Euro 2012!!!