The past week at work was fairly uneventful. Things are slower than they’ve been is what everyone is saying. We’ve watched a fair bit of Olympics during the day…all the swimming events are live for us around lunchtime so that’s been cool. Everyone at work bashes on Americans (usually for things we deserve to be bashed on) so they’ve anointed me as an honorary Canadian so that I won’t be offended (I’m not). Friday we celebrated one of the guys at work’s birthday from the previous weekend by getting a case of beer (which I think they call a slab) delivered in the afternoon. So once again, it was Friday afternoon and we were drinking beers in the office. And once again everyone assured me that this isn’t something that normally happens. I’m not sure what to believe because that’s now two consecutive Fridays. I’ll have to report back after next Friday. Anyways, after that a bunch of us went to a bar nearby for a few drinks. Michelle was with some of her school friends at our apartment and they were heading to a place in the Rocks so I rendezvous-ed with them…we went to a bar at the top of some hotel which had nice views of the harbour (although the views weren’t as nice as from my office) and then we ended up at some other huge bar nearby that had many floors and playing lots of different music and we stayed out for a while there.
Next day was fairly low key for us, we watched some Olympics and did some random errandy things. That night we went to the Aussie Rules match between the Sydney Swans and the Geelong Cats (Geelong is somewhere in Victoria I think). Mike, my boss at work has these season tickets and wasn’t going to be able to go so he gave them to me…he said I should go with someone who knows the rules so I could learn a little bit so of course I went with Michelle who happens to be an expert on Aussie rules (that’s of course a sarcastic statement). We had a great time at the game and we had read up a bit on wikipedia before going so we both had a pretty good understanding of the basics, but a lot of the calls made by the referees we had no idea what was going on. We pretty much cheered when the crowd cheered and booed when the crowd booed. It might take some more in depth reading to learn a bit more about the game. They play their games out at the stadium that was built for the Olympics in 2000…its this whole area of Olympic venues about a 45 minute train ride west of the city. The Swans got destroyed, Geelong is evidently like the unquestionably best team this year so Sydney didn’t have much of a chance.
Sunday was moving day for us. We said goodbye to our temporary place in Darling Harbour and moved our junk to our new place in Surry Hills. Our temporary place was nice and served its purpose perfectly but it was really exciting to move to our permanent place. The area is just so much better, in many ways its like the west village of Sydney. Our place is of course pretty empty except for the few things we’ve bought of the last week or two since our furniture is still somewhere in the Pacific. Its kind of amusing to have all this empty space. So we walked around the ‘hood a bit looking for BBQs or outdoor furniture but we were unsuccessful on both counts. We went for a nice run from our place into the CBD to the opera house, through the botanical gardens and along the water and then looping back…it was such a nice place to run so convenient to our place! This is the first day of our training for the Bridge run we’re doing in a few weeks. We were supposed to start the training three weeks ago technically so hopefully we’ll be able to catch up. And then we had dinner at a nice little Indian place a block or two away…its great having good restaurants so close again!
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