Well another week has come and gone and I must say it has been eventful to say the least.
I have been having a lot of problems with my Wifi this week and many blogs are delayed and I am trying to catch up as quick as I can.
Last weekend was a bit of a fizzer with the rain continuing to get us down in Sydney.
On Saturday I didn't really do much more than tidy up around the house before heading out to watch the Rugby at a local pub. I was very glad to see the Wallabies take it to a decider against the Lions and met some interesting people in the process.
Sunday was not all that much different as the rain was still annoying but was beginning to clear, I was just making preparations by shopping and getting organised for the week ahead.
Monday was much nicer weather suddenly and I made my usual pilgrimage to Newtown Fitness First to watch the football that night whilst ploughing through on the cross trainer.
On Tuesday I was fortunate enough to be able to catch up with a friend for dinner and was given a little gift of some different tea's to try. Will leave that till the weekend though.
Wednesday brought what was probably the biggest highlight of the week. I went back to the Opera House for their annual staff Trivia Night. I had been a participant for the past 4 or 5 years and whilst it was great to assemble a table of friends for the fun of it, we never really gave it much of a shake. One year we did finish a random 10th which won us half a dozen bottles of wine which we all got together to share at a later date.
This year my friends still on staff, Nana and Ali, organised the team and I was an invited external guest. I hadn't been back to the building since January and it was nice to walk through the back areas again. We catered our table well with a good mix of sweet and savoury and all drinks were $5 so I had a coupe of beers during the course of the evening, which was about 4 hours in duration.
There were 28 tables this year and the game was 3 rounds of questions plus a photo sheet where you had to guess who the people were and after the first Round our table was in 1st place with only 2 incorrect answers. We were delighted naturally and whilst happy with our answers, still surprised at the outcome. But after Round Two, despite feeling equally happy with our answers we had fallen back into 2nd Place but still very happy with that.
At the end of Round Three we were not feeling very confident, we had gotten a lot of answers wrong but were confident we got 5 out of 6 points for the last question which was about Daniel Craig. They also collected the Photo sheets and we were pretty confident we had about 23/26 for that. But the third round was our poorest result of the evening.
I was still pretty confident we would be in the top 5 but you only get prizes for 1st, 2nd and 3rd. We were still in there though when he read out 4th and when it wasn't our name, we knew we were now Top 3 and we'd won a prize! So we were very excited.
When he read out 3rd place and it wasn't us, we knew we had either held our 2nd position or we had actually won the whole kit and caboodle. Then he read out 2nd place, and it wasn't us. We had won! My first ever trivia night victory and it was amazing. The 8 of us got to share a prize that was a voucher at the Opera Bar worth $750. Very happy with that and I think most of us intend to get back together and enjoy the prize with a good expensive meal and a few drinks. Very happy effort.
Thursday was pretty much a downer after that and I was pretty exhausted and tired after the weeks events and crashed out watching Wimbledon at home. I have been still battling this bloody cold for 2 weeks and whilst its slowly improving it still has been preventing me from having my full strength and so I still haven't gotten back to doing weights. Next week should be fine.
Finally on Friday I had a friend in town for the night and so we caught up for dinner in a cool Japanese place near Pitt Street Mall then had drinks afterwards in the bar of the Boulevard Hotel on William Street. It's on the 25th Floor and had really cool views of the district.
So all in all a pretty cool week with a highlight or two to make it interesting.
So good to see the sun back in Sydney and supplying us with such glorious wintry afternoons.
See you next week
J G S
No comments:
Post a Comment