Very busy last weekend

Well its been over 2 weeks since I last made a post so I thought I'd better write some of my happenings.

Cousins' 21st Birthday party

• Friday night I helped my cousin celebrate his 21st birthday held at a place called Caz Rieztops Dirty Secrets in a private area downstairs. The speeches were great & my cousin was very emotional.
• Mind you it was a fantastic venue and was set out really well. During the night I kept my cousins' girlfriend in downing a few shots together :-)
• Arrived home about 1pm.

2 days in Brisbane - Saturday (concert)

• Left home at 5.30am for 8am flight Mel-Brisbane
• Arrived in Brisbane, sunny & 15degrees; headed to my parents house and slept for a couple of hours
• Went to dinner at the club having Chicken Parma
• My father & I headed off to St Johns Cathedral, Brisbane to listen to the Choir of Trinity College, University of Melbourne sing as part of their national tour. The music was a range of repotoire from the evensong music they sing during the semester. I knew most of the music. Probably the piece that I thought was sung best was by Maurice Greene "Lord, let me know mine end". The Allegri Misere was also sung although I must admit it was not the best I have heard and/or sung as part of.

Sunday (game day)

• Went to church at Ipswich for 9.30am service.
• Headed off home and then to Lang Park for the Broncos v Sharks game. Today's game was a very special game for Shane Webcke, as he was not only captaining the side but celebrating a milestone of 251 games. He didn't want to celebrate the milestone of 250 games as it was an away game against Manly and Broncs don't have a fancy record against them.
• Arrived at the game before gates were to open as my brother was working and I was meeting a friend who was going to watch the game before hand. The food outlets weren't open so I had to wait a little while to have lunch... although we'd had morning tea at church so I wasn't starving or anything like that. Met my friends at about 1pm and then we headed off to the season seats she has allocated Broncos games.
• The game before was not actually too bad and the scoreline in the end showed a pretty even match... can't actually say that I took much notice.
• Pre-game entertainment was the St John Paul College's Marching Band. They were very good and the flag bearers (or whatever they're called) are much better than the Broncos cheergirls.
• The players came out to warm up and for some reason the Broncos players warmed up at the Southern end of the ground, not the northern end like they usually do. Maybe it had something to do with the sun. As I was sitting at the 30 odd metre line at the Southern end, I decided to stay until they left to go to my seats. Boy I remember Parker in the fashion parade last year.
• I went back to my seats to meet Misty & Alex. Misty had never been to a game before and now she wants to be a season member. Its amazing how different it is to go live as opposed just watching it on TV. The Broncos came out and dominated the first half. At one stage it was 16-0 and they had completed all but 2 of their 16 sets at one stage in the first half. This was such a great achievement as they had 11 players out due to origin duties and injuries. Corey was all over the field and just seemed to have a great game, apart from his goal kicking which was shocking.
• Buster (Brett Seymour) had a very solid game and scored in the second half, at a very crucial moment in the game off a rugby style hit back from Brad Thorn. It maybe enough to ensure he plays in the next round.. we'll just have to wait & see. He's been named at 19 in the squad, which will be reduced to 17.
• The end score was 26-12 to the Broncos. Brad Thorn was the official man of the match. The players did their lap of honour and I got a fantastic wave from Corey so that made more of my day :)
• Father picked Alex & me up and we headed off to get some dinner, Hungry Jacks, before going to church at Ithaca. After the service I was able to catch up with my grandfather and a couple of other people. My Aunt, however cornered me and I was stuck being grilled for information but I was able to cut it short as I had to get to the airport to get my midnight flight.
• On the flight on the way back from Brisbane we had a group of people who had just spent 3 years living in remote areas of Papua. It was very interesting as they were dressed in summer gear and we just couldn't understand why. They surely had some interesting stories to tell.