This year, ANZAC Day (25 April) fell on a Friday, immediately after Easter, giving us a three-day week to ease back into Term 2. Unfortunately, the weather on ANZAC Day was pretty miserable here on the Gold Coast—it poured until about 3 pm. There are dawn services across the country every ANZAC Day to commemorate those who have served in the armed forces for Australia (and New Zealand), and some of those had to be cancelled here due to the rain, which is a shame. ANZAC Day is a similar day to Remembrance Day, except it is specific to Australia and New Zealand and was started to remember the Army Corps landing at Gallipoli in Turkey on 25 April, 1915, during WWI.  Most places are closed on ANZAC Day, though in Melbourne things like grocery stores would open around 1pm, once the morning services were finished. We were caught off guard in finding out that in Queensland these places are shut all day, so we didn't have much food in the house. We were all quite unmotivated that day. Betw...