April 14 - An anniversary

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I had a migraine on Good Friday, so I called out of work. When I finally felt better and able to get out of bed and dressed, I realized that it was an anniversary of sorts. In reading Bill Bryson's In a Sunburned Country, he mentioned that there is a day when you don't exist while traveling to Australia from the US. It's all due to the International Dateline and the speed of commercial flight. For me, I left the US on a Air New Zealand flight at 11:30am from LAX on April 13 and I didn't finally get to Sydney until 10:30am April 15. I had jumped up into the air and the earth spin until I fell down two days later. (Now I know I existed because I had a window seat and I was blocked in by a charming old En Zed couple who were fast asleep when I had to take a wicked slash! It was a 26-hour journey in coach.)

In waxing nostagalic for Australia and feeling better, I felt industrious and looked up a recipe for ANZAC Bickies. Knowing that ANZAC Day was coming up (April 25) and reading the ingredients (they have coconut in them), I thought they would be a good cookie to make for my family for Easter for their baskets.

So I spent my 1st anniversary of my being en route to Australia cooking an Aussie traditional treat, and planned on sharing it as a new tradition with my folks and family.

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Anonymous said…
The Aussie cookies were great. I imagine to get a better Aussie cookie, I would have to travel the -1 day to Australialand and grab one fresh from a joey pouch.
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