Week 44: Gold Coast Again!

Can anybody guess how I kicked off me week? Yes you got it, I spent monday and tuesday working away on my assignments. Tuesday evening was my weekly touch game, we played a division 1 team and got beaten pretty badly, but playing against hard teams will mean that we will improve quicker (silver lining!). When I got back to KB we watched our weekly dose of Game of Thrones down on the projector in the basement before heading down to Unibar for the a heat of band comp. We had some friends playing in their newly formed indie folk band called We Came For Dinosaurs. They were very good and came runners up which was very impressive!

Wednesday rolled around and I smashed out work in the morning before being invited to the beach in the afternoon. We had a lovely dip in the sea which still isn't too cold yet! I did some more work before heading back to the study. We hit up Unibar pub quiz and came joint first... if only I had been more assertive that zirconium is the last element alphabetically! I had no idea on most of the other questions though... they were all about greek gods and literature :|. We headed out to the Grand on wednesday evening, it was a lovely night and woke up feeling fine which is what I needed.


Thursday morning I did some work before making the journey back up to the airport... yes again... I am not too fond of the train up from Wollongong to the airport now as I have done it 6 times in only a few weeks. I times the journey to perfection and got to the gate just as the queue was nice and short, walking straight onto the plane.

The flight went smoothly and arrived at the right airport this time... the Gold Coast to be picked up by Eddy. The afternoon was spent relaxing out in Tallebudgera which is a really picturesque corner of the Gold Coast, we went for a little walk and run some errands. I rustled up some lemon and thyme chicken for dinner, not my best by far but not too bad. That evening we watched Forrest Gump, turns out its a good movie, apparently it is a film that everyone must see!

Friday was spent running some errands, cooking and polishing brass... how great visitor am I hey!? I did manage to fit in a 7km jog, on the same route as my hungover jog a few weeks back. I managed to shave off 2min/km from my last time, not a surprise really. I even spotted a koala, he/she was trying to climb through a gate, and failed so decided to sit on the fencepost instead!

We picked up fellow pommy Richard (happy?!) from the station and had a chilled evening making risotto and watching TV.

Saturday rolled around and the day was spend preparing for a big (Adult) party on sunday. I dont quite know where the day went... it seemed to fly by so quickly. In the evening we played some canaste (a card game) and got an early nights sleep.

Sunday was upon us and the morning was spent madly dashing around preparing for 34 guests for the party. By lunchtime everyone had arrived and we could relax a little bit more and enjoy the delicious dishes that everyone brought with them. I tried my first ever oyster with feta and spinach, I couldnt really taste the oyster so it was tastey! In the middle of the afternoon we played some games, tug of war, sack races that type of thing. Next thing I know its time for dessert which was amazing... orange cake is so yummy! People begun to head off home and we had the not too arduous task of cleaning up. 6 people cleaning up means it doesnt take long at all. We ordered in fish and chips for dinner and watched some TV to finish off the week in a very sleepy way.