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January 28, 2005
New Year 2005 | SA | Australia
After a fairly hot and tiring couple of days at the beach (Not that we didn’t have a brilliant time!), we thought it a good idea to have a pretty calm evening at the Jerilee home. Seeing as I was away from Lydia and New Year’s Eve is generally most satisfying through the people factor, not events, an easy NYE at home was sounding pretty good.
They treated me to an amazing Indian meal at a restaurant near their home… Naan and Curry and Beer – oh my! We sat outside, as it was a great temperature and setting, and even though there was pending rain, it didn’t eventuate, so our meal was fantastic!
After dinner we went to pick up Graham and Vivvie’s dog and got the opportunity to hang out for a few minutes with Mark and Sandy who were looking after the place.
More playing around with the camera ended up with some pseudo animation clips by both Jeremy and Mark…
Here’s the Jez Motion Montage…
And click the image for a very simple flash animation made from Mark’s antics!
The rest of the evening was filled with what we thought to be a good idea at the time – drinking the dreaded Fijian Kava! To put you in context, this stuff comes from the root of some dirty plant, and as such, tastes like the root of some dirty plant. Mixed with water it turns into a putrid swamp of mud, which is supposed to be an enticing evening drink. It is some kind of muscle relaxant, the initial sensation in the mouth kind of like the numbness of eating too many strepsils at once.
For me, it was not worth the pain of ‘drinking tree’, although the others felt more relaxed, and we all definitely had a good night’s sleep.
After the New Year had been counted in and appropriately celebrated, we went for a walk around the block, listening to the sounds of celebrations in the area, as well as some local youths ‘mooning’ cars as there was nothing better to do, and no chicks to impress :)
The next night was a nice ‘sibling’ catch-up BBQ at Tim and Chelle’s place which, after a couple of bottles of ale and wine, caused much very interesting conversation extending into the wee hours… So engaging was it that it could have gone on longer had a certain cousin not had to fly back to Sydney very early the next day. On the way home, again, KB, JB and I had more great convo which had to be cut short…
It was a great few days in South Australia, a great opportunity to catch up with the rellies, as well as a bit of a reminder of what outdoor oz can be like.
The remainder of my time in Sydney was filled with family, IT work, family IT work many friends’ catchups and preparation for heading back overseas…
Posted by Dan at January 28, 2005 09:15 AM
Comments
Aaahhh the memories - what a gorgeous time... niiice work with the fancy flash Danno - love your work!!! ;) tee hehehee
Posted by: Kirrilee at January 28, 2005 11:02 AM
THAT was interesting!
Posted by: lozza at January 28, 2005 08:29 PM
Well nice photos but i see no one voluteered to do the washing up in a hurry! But what are holidays for right?
Posted by: Tim Strater at February 17, 2005 04:45 AM