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War Stories
Mar. 31st, 2006 08:40 pmI am a bad, bad person. But at least now I am a bad, bad person with a pair of Oakleys. A poor bad, bad person. (And it was $50 off!)
Anyway, before I went on an unscheduled shopping spree, I was on a tour of the War Memorial. I'd forgotten how much difference a good guide makes. I am normally not a museum/gallery type person, pictures and objects and dioramas generally leave me cold.
But once you have someone there telling stories, I could stay there for hours. The stories varied from the tragic - the story of the youngest Australian even killed in action (14yrs, 9 months) - to the amusing - stories of the Aussies climbing the pyramids to carve their initials in the top and smuggling assorted Australian wildlife like Kangaroos, wallabys, and emus into Egypt. (Apparently, by the end of the war the Cairo zoo had the largest collection of australian animals outside Oz.)
But this one I had to share. ( War Stories )
Anyway, if any of you find yourselves at the AWM, I definitely recommend getting the guided tour.
Random Observation of the Day - If beer is good, tequila is better
Anyway, before I went on an unscheduled shopping spree, I was on a tour of the War Memorial. I'd forgotten how much difference a good guide makes. I am normally not a museum/gallery type person, pictures and objects and dioramas generally leave me cold.
But once you have someone there telling stories, I could stay there for hours. The stories varied from the tragic - the story of the youngest Australian even killed in action (14yrs, 9 months) - to the amusing - stories of the Aussies climbing the pyramids to carve their initials in the top and smuggling assorted Australian wildlife like Kangaroos, wallabys, and emus into Egypt. (Apparently, by the end of the war the Cairo zoo had the largest collection of australian animals outside Oz.)
But this one I had to share. ( War Stories )
Anyway, if any of you find yourselves at the AWM, I definitely recommend getting the guided tour.
Random Observation of the Day - If beer is good, tequila is better
