Wednesday, February 21, 2007

The Trip: Chapter 2 - Very Bad Wagers

No time for breakfast we had Canberra to see!

This took 20 minutes.

Paliament House:

The ANZAC Memorial:
That's it - I think there was a museum somewhere but our heads were spinning from the megacity were were in and we thought it best to head to the sleepy little hamlet of Bondi Beach and pick up Yeremey.

With myself driving...
...and 2manyDJs educating the heathens we were well on the way fortified by only the finest KFC the A.C.T. had to offer. Rolling into Bondi:
... we quickly picked up Yeremy and his French housemate only referred to as "Oi Frog" and popped over to Maroumbra beach for a spot of surfing.

A 2.5 meter swell and my foolish use of the mal quickly taught me a lesson and after being hilariously and repeatedly wiped out we eventually retired back to Yermey's for his introduction into the world of Shambles.

Derived from the fleetingly popular cocktail AbsolutChamBulls we mix 2 bottles cheap sparkling white, one bottle nasty vodka (now referred to as NotWater) and 4 cans RedBull and eventually wake up in jail in East Timor.

Shambles and poker well underway we were accosted by a swedish housemate of Yeremy's who proceeded to sell me a hammock for $2, and a rather fetching flourescent 80's style wetsuit for $7.80. This would later come back to haunt me.

Winding up at a club in town The Wager was made - since all of us (barring Adam) were now single, the last of us to get a girl back to the sofa we were sitting on would have to wear the aforementioned wetsuit on the next night out. Unfortunately thanks to Shambles I had the people skills of a refrigerator and kept shouting at my own reflection - this led me and Mike to both give up allowing Yeremy to win with the classic drunk american yet there to be no actual loser.

This is not good logic or betting karma. My comeuppance eventually came....

The Trip: Chapter 1 - Fear and Loathing in Victoria

The day came. After an immensely hungover last day's work on Australia day my last night out began in a relitavely normal way - drinking huge amounts of cider at the bar and dancing on the tables with the lovely Jacquie and Simone.

Eventually kicked out of there we made our way around St. Kilda dancing badly. Eventually ending up in Home number 3: Revolver. The club that never closes.

6:30 in the morning hit and I thought it might be a good idea to go home and actually pack as we were planning the leave an hour later, but of course we ended up going to Greasey's for breakfast...



Not much was eaten but a few Coronas were drunk, and scraps were fed to Mike... eventually home, packed, moved out and underway by 10am - very impressive considering the state I was in. With a sober Mike driving and a still superbly trashed Tom shouting at traffic we picked up Adam and headed for Canberra.
I tired of singing off key Johnny Cash songs at passing trucks by noon and promtly fell into a coma, waking hours later in some random tree filled town somewhere. Later I discovered this was the nation's capital. After wandering around for some time on a Saturday night in the most banging part of town we concluded that Canberra must actually be somewhere else and we'd been tricked by some little hick town. After a swift pint of Guinness my second wind never appeared. I quietly cursed the A.C.T and slipped into a much needed near-sober slumber.

Monday, February 19, 2007

Just a quick check in...

Yeah, sorry I haven't posted in ages - I've barely stopped since I left Melbourne about 4 weeks ago!


The full story on the EPIC trip shall be posted soon, but here's what I did today for the time being: