Down Under

Ugly is taking his very lovely family on a two-week tour of Australia. We are leaving tomorrow morning and coming back the day after Labor Day. Please, no jealousy. Anyone who works hard can have the same.

We will be scuba diving in the Great Barrier Reef, listening to romantic tunes at the Sydney Opera House, visiting Mount Ossa and the Oyster Bay and hoping the boys get carried away by Tasmanian Devils, having Yalumba wine in Adelaide, seeing the Ayres Rocks, visiting Kangaroo Island, visiting high rocks and the Twelve Apostles at Port Campbell, making love on Honeymoon Bay, watching my lovely wife sunbathe in the nude at Magnetic Island while the koalas watch, and watching the boys surf at Fraser Island, as well as many other adventures.

Monika has forbid me from touching the blog from the time our plane takes off till it lands back at BWI, so we will continue when we get back. We'll leave you with this famous song:

Traveling in a fried-out Kombi
On a hippie trail, head full of zombie
I met a strange lady, she made me nervous
She took me in and gave me breakfast
And she said

"Do you come from a land down under?
Where women glow and men plunder?
Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
You better run, you better take cover"

Buying bread from a man in Brussels
He was six foot four and full of muscles
I said, "Do you speak-a my language?"
He just smiled and gave me a Vegemite sandwich
And he said

"I come from a land down under
Where beer does flow and men sunder
Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
You better run, you better take cover"

Lying in a den in Bombay
With a slack jaw and not much to say
I said to the man, "Are you trying to tempt me
Because I come from the land of plenty?"
And he said

"Oh! do you come from a land down under?
Where women glow and men plunder?
Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
You better run, you better take cover"

Living in a land down under
Where women glow and men plunder
Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
You better run, you better take cover

Living in a land down under
Where women glow and men plunder
Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
You better run, you better take cover

Living in a land down under
Where women glow and men plunder
Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
You better run, you better take cover

Living in a land down under
Where women glow and men plunder
Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
You better run, you better take cover