Sunday, April 30, 2006
Quick update from Tys
Just wanted to say a quick hello and let you know what I've been up to over the last few days. After last weekend, we were a little short on cash so planned on having a reasonably quiet one this weekend. Friday night I bolted home from work to go to Louses where he had 2 hours of AFL on Sky to watch. It was the Bris V Saints game and about 30 mins of highlights. Was so good to watch footy again, starting to miss it pretty bad. Had a couple of beers followed by a BBQ and then went home around 11pm.
I had to work on Saturday (ridiculous!!), which was fun.... not, Kate met me for lunch and I knocked off at 5. Went for a run and gym, and then came home and ate. Kelly and Ebony (staying with us for a while), were home and having a quiet one, Kelly had a friend over, Kate and I invited Louse and Amanda over and Louse brought a mate, so we squeezed 9 people in our small living room to watch a movie. Watched Hostel which probably wasn't the smartest move considering we are all travelling and staying at hostels all the time, but luckily it wasn't too scary at all, even Kate managed to watch majority of it!
Got up early on Sunday to get a good position for the London Marathon with Louse and Amanda. Tommy was running in it, so we wanted to give him heaps of support, so we got to Tower Hill by 9am, the most popular spot of the track, you get to see them twice there, at the 13 and 22 mile mark. Of course me and Louse couldn't have a dry day so we brought a bottle of vodka and red bulls and drank all morning, we saw Tommy at the 22 mile mark, yelled and screamed and got some good pics. He ran an awesome time of 3hrs and 29mins for the 26 mile journey. Unbelievable how many people run it and go to watch. Great atmosphere. I really want to do one now!!
Here is a picture of Tommy (at the 22 mark) - he's in the middle. After we saw Tommy we hung around to watch heaps of other people come past, then we found a pub close by and got into it. We met Tommy in Oxford Circus later on and by the end of the night it was just Tommy, Louse and I drinking beer. Was a big day, hence the reason I'm not working right now, took a sickie!!!
Anyway, relatively quiet weekend, well kind of anyway, met Kate for lunch today and am in the process of uploading some more pics so expect another email to come through a bit later. Off to Paris this weekend, can't wait!!!
I had to work on Saturday (ridiculous!!), which was fun.... not, Kate met me for lunch and I knocked off at 5. Went for a run and gym, and then came home and ate. Kelly and Ebony (staying with us for a while), were home and having a quiet one, Kelly had a friend over, Kate and I invited Louse and Amanda over and Louse brought a mate, so we squeezed 9 people in our small living room to watch a movie. Watched Hostel which probably wasn't the smartest move considering we are all travelling and staying at hostels all the time, but luckily it wasn't too scary at all, even Kate managed to watch majority of it!
Got up early on Sunday to get a good position for the London Marathon with Louse and Amanda. Tommy was running in it, so we wanted to give him heaps of support, so we got to Tower Hill by 9am, the most popular spot of the track, you get to see them twice there, at the 13 and 22 mile mark. Of course me and Louse couldn't have a dry day so we brought a bottle of vodka and red bulls and drank all morning, we saw Tommy at the 22 mile mark, yelled and screamed and got some good pics. He ran an awesome time of 3hrs and 29mins for the 26 mile journey. Unbelievable how many people run it and go to watch. Great atmosphere. I really want to do one now!!
Here is a picture of Tommy (at the 22 mark) - he's in the middle. After we saw Tommy we hung around to watch heaps of other people come past, then we found a pub close by and got into it. We met Tommy in Oxford Circus later on and by the end of the night it was just Tommy, Louse and I drinking beer. Was a big day, hence the reason I'm not working right now, took a sickie!!!
Anyway, relatively quiet weekend, well kind of anyway, met Kate for lunch today and am in the process of uploading some more pics so expect another email to come through a bit later. Off to Paris this weekend, can't wait!!!
# posted by Barb @ 12:26 pm 
