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Sunday, 7 October 2012
the last spring holidays of high school
Bonjour mes amis!
So the first week of holidays involved two days of study, three days of intensive chemistry workshop, a day of relaxing, and a day of church. This week, Monday and Tuesday were spent at maths workshop, Wednesday was spent eating and going to the 'Brisbane Asian Soccer Finals' or something like that. Thursday was Tony's birthday BBQ dinner, Friday was Esther and Elizabeth's birthday cruise dinner and Saturday was spent studying and then Francis' at the Gold Coast at night with youth. Blah, that was a huge chunky sentence. But a riveting set of holidays, really!
Mitchell owed me big time for turning up over two hours late to meeting me for lunch, and so bought me dessert. 'Twas pretty good!
L-R: Tonka bean pannacotta, passionfruit ice cream, almond dentelle and pear tarte tatin, salted almond ice cream, cardomon caramel.
An ootd photo, kind of.
I tried to hide from the photo but when I turned around BAM some guy took it. Fml.
Honestly, the photos were all quite repetitive so this is the funniest photo I could find. Funny in the sense that whenever Angus needed it, he'd clap his hands twice and call out "Patrick!" who would come running with the water bottle. Most efficient and on-hand water boy I've ever seen. Angus stayed in position for the whole game. Like, when we asked him why he wasn't doing anything his reply was "I'm conserving!" He was the only player with his own personal water-boy, and I think he 'conserved' throughout the whole game until the last five minutes.
Our seats. I think we made the most noise out of everyone. The BGS support team/cheering squad weren't even cheering :|
Needless to say, the non-BGS team, Brisbane Miracle, I think they're called, won with a score of 2-1!
It's sort of a tradition for our family and our only other cousins in Queensland to go out as two families for each child's birthday. Friday night, we celebrated Esther and Elizabeth's birthday!
 
On the drive to Marina's Mirage (HEY LAZY EYE HOW YOU DOIN')!
Before boarding the ship: My sister, Beck, and one of my cousin's whose birthday it was, Elizabeth
"Hello from on board!" cried Esther the birthday girl, as she excitedly peered around the ship.
The girls of the two families.
Parents on the top deck.
Pretty decent for a shotty DSLR and kit lens, I think.
The buffet.
The other half of the buffet.
Dude. That huge bucket of oysters got refilled every 10 minutes, I'm telling you, I ate 50+ oysters to my heart's content. Which was followed by a stupid move of going up to the top deck for fresh air. I could have vomitted enough to feed all the fish in the sea. Thank God I didn't.
Hay.
Brother gave up after his first dish of looking normal and followed it up with THREE WHOLE PLATES full of oysters.
Sister told me to take this picture. Damn girl!
Top deck once again! We walked up there in between servings to let our food digest quicker - bad idea, actually...
Esther's card, Elizabeth's card. I am a pro card picker.
REALLY CUTE OLD COUPLE WERE DOING THE CHICKEN DANCE. But I don't have a photo.
 
Chocolate mousse in funky martini glasses.
Elizabeth and Beck
Daughters and Mum
Esther and her Mum (awww!)
Cousin's family. I love each and every one of them to bits, you don't understand.
Our family!
Hair got greasy and disgusting so I tied it up.
And folks, this is why I never tie my hair up. I know y'all are shuddering!
Leaving the ship and it's wonderful music and food and people :( we drove to Surfer's and chilled around for a bit before heading home.
 Slept over cousin's house and this is Elizabeth's wombat collection. She's obsessed with wombats, as you could have - actually, probably, definitely not have - deduced from the wombat card I chose for her.
And now might be a good time to say that I don't have any photos from Tony's. Incidentally, Vivek happened to upload a whole album of 159ish photos from the party onto our Seniors 2012 page (also known as Graphs Taking Form). It was like a two mile scroll to the end of the photos.
And here's a photo of a steak sandwich I made to separate these two giant chunks of writing. Steak sandwich with lettuce, mushrooms, onions and blue cheese!
I just got back from the Gold Coast with youth after spending the evening at Francis' doing bible trivia and having a BBQ. Nhi and Trang are over right now for a sleepover and I am off to make some instanoodles! Hope y'all enjoy your Sunday tomorrow. Monday is going to be heccers. xxx
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