A couple of years ago we went to the Boxing Day Cricket at the Melbourne Cricket Ground with some friends, and this year I bought tickets for us to go with friends again. Boxing day is the day after Christmas and it is the big shopping day (just like in the States). Instead of shopping we went to the Cricket to see Australia v. India. We had a great time!  Mel and Brent joined us and we had a long sunburnt, beer-filled adventure.  I got some great shots with my new camera, here’s a couple favourites but you can see all the pictures in my photo album: Boxing Day 2007.

Boxing Day is a public holiday recognized in the United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand and Australia, as well as many other members of the Commonwealth of Nations. It is celebrated on December 26, the day after Christmas Day. Boxing Day is a traditional celebration dating back to the Middle Ages, of which the primary practice is the giving of gifts to employees, the poor, or to people in a lower social class. The name has numerous folk etymologies; the Oxford English Dictionary attributes it to the Christmas box; the verb box meaning: “To give a Christmas-box (colloq.); hence the term boxing-day.” Outside the Commonwealth, the holiday is sometimes called “St. Stephen’s Day”.

Check back for our New Years Eve post coming next week!

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Mental Status: Feeling good. Need to catch up on the after-Christmas house mess! Have been web-camming it up with the family this week back in the States, can’t wait for our trip back home in July!
Favourite thing this Week: Nice to have a week off from work, the Cricket was the highlight this week - hanging with Mel & Brent and partying last night with Blair at his new house - tons of fun!
Book this Week: Double Cross by James Patterson
Something New: Looking at new jobs again, keeping my fingers crossed to make the move over to IT Project Management as there are some new great opportunities ahead.