Australia has an Army?

It turns out they do. Actually, its called ANZAC, or the Australia-New Zealand Army Corps. I hopped on a tour bus for a couple of hours today and went to the Australia War Memorial. After walking through the museum, I remembered having to watch the movie Gallipoli in High School so I could get extra credit. There is a big celebration coming up on Monday which is similar to our Memorial Day. The only other person on the tour bus was an Indian lady named Jigna who is currently working on a Biology PhD in Sydney. We took turns using each other's camera so that we could have pictures with ourselves in them.

After the War Memorial was a tour of the Australian Parliament. They took the name "Parliament" from England, but they took the actual structure from the US. There is a House of Representatives and a Senate. The House building is green, apparently representing Eucalyptus leaves. The Senate building is Red, apparently representing changing color of Eycalyptus leaves. Lots of symbolism in the Parliament building.

Take a look at the Pictures of my morning of tourism.

Tomorrow morning I fly out to Berlin, which should be a long enough flight to make me never want to fly on a plane again.