Hows the Serenity: February 2007

What a weekend

Well this was one of those weekends that flew by from social outing to social outing stopping in between to catch your breath when you can-hell it was good though. We started off Saturday when we headed off to Brissie to catch up with Julie, Clayton and Ruby it was our turn to head north as the Wright's had visited us twice previously on the Coast. We headed up for an afternoon braai (bbq) where we spent most of the day in and out of the pool with a few coldies-it was the perfect way to relax, by the time Sar's and I had left it felt as though we had been there only a couple of hours and not the 6 that we had. Once we left the coast and headed back south we had no sooner walked through the door when we headed out across the road to Sam's 2nd birthday party and into about 40000 screaming, running and jumping kids from all over the hood, they seemed to have a blast as did the oldies who did the obvious thing while the kids burnt off their energy-we watched in amazement and wondered where they got their energy from. Once the youngsters had slowly faded off it became the adults turn to make some noise. Though I reckon that most of the adults were as exhausted as the kids!!!

Sunday we finally did what we have been threatening to do for a few months-went barefoot bowling!!!! Sarah, Karen and I headed off to broadbeach where we paid 4 bucks each to have an afternoon of barefoot bowls (picture above). What a blast it was, from the basement price for an afternoons entertainment we also found that the beer was still at 1970 prices-happy days. Ten bucks for a pitcher and about 50c a coke you had a recipe for a good time or a disaster depending on which way you look at it. We had a fabulous time and narrowly avoided the disaster. After around for or five hours of some good and more shocking bowls-I think we nearly broke a pensioners leg when we won't say who accidentally had the bias facing the wrong way and had the old duck hopping out of the way we decided it would be a good idea to head home. One thing is for certain we will be doing it again at some stage and highly recommend it to anyone who thinks they may enjoy the bowling or even if you just like the idea of drinking cheap beer in the sun, as I said there is something in it for everyone!!

Baggy Greens Win It

After a season of mixed results the Baggy Greens (my indoor cricket team) last night won our 1st division final. After finishing 3rd in the log due to some mediocre performances over the Xmas period we managed to sneak into the final through the back door having to earn our place through a series elimination matches, 3 in total on our way to the final. Once there we met a good quality team who we had played 3 times through the season having won one and lost 2 so it was always going to be a tight affair.

The final was pretty one sides after we made 144 in our 16 overs. We knew we had them when after 10 overs they had only 70 and after 12 were on 60, yes -10 runs between overs 8 and 10 (-5 runs every time you go out in indoor cricket). Overall it was a top performance by the boys and we look forward to defending our title as Premiers next season.

Crocodile Hunter

Take a look at this clip of good old Steve Irwin it is hilarious!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pa_7P5AbUww

Enjoy.

Day 4-Tangalooma

Well you realise just how quickly the year is going when you are half way through February and you are still catching up on your December/January holiday blogging-anyway here goes day 4 with Thommo and Eve when we all headed out to Moreton Island for the day at Tangalooma Wild Dolphin Resort for some diving and whatever came about.

It was a good hour on the ferry out of Brisbane during which time I think we all caught some shut eye after the night before again though once on the Island we were full steam ahead and after a cup of coffee Thommo, Sar's and I were straight onto the Quad bikes for an hour through the dunes. It was quite amazing as we were leaving the beach on our bike there were 2 or 3 dolphins not 2 meters from the shore with people standing in the water looking at them-needless to say this just increased the excitement for when we would dive the wrecks in the picture above. The quad biking was awesome though there were a few close calls and anxious moments thanks to out guide who obviously was no whiz on the health and safety side of things choosing to stop dead on a blind corner!!!

Once done biking we thought it a good idea for the 4 of us to be towed behind a boat on an inflatable banana with some interesting results-needless to say the most memorable thing about the banana was Eve's yelping every time we hit the wake or wave and lurched skyward, at first we thought eve was trying to communicate with the dolphins she had seen earlier in the day with her HE HE HEE calling. By the time we finished the ride we were sopping wet having all fallen off and completely buggered from hanging on for dear life, oh yes Eve's voice was also a little husky from the yelping.

The afternoon we hired some diving gear and took a long walk down the beach to the wrecks, these are located about 50m offshore though with a fair rip inshore between the beach and the wrecks. Once out there we had gloves so could hang off the ships so as to not be swept away-sounds dramatic though not really. It was amazing around the wrecks with the amount of sea life and coral that has established itself on the boats-it was like looking into an aquarium window though you didn't know what was going to be in the bow of the next ship or come up from the deep.

It really was a superb day and would really recommend it to anyone coming into Brisbane who doesn't have time to get up to the real reef. Needless to say we were buggered by the end of it all though not to tired to watch South Africa crush Pakistan over 6 or 7 beers AGAIN.