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Don’t we all love long weekends. Bloody oath! Being a working man now, with the joys of super long uni holidays every few months past me, long weekends are greatly looked forward. To have some time away from it all is awesome. The last long holiday I took (only 10 days), I came back with a completely new outlook on life, and a new set of priorities. I took up a health craze, somewhat resigned, and planned how I’d get overseas next year. Yes, a lot can change after a holiday haha!

Easter was great. Thursday started off as a bit of a bludge - we had a company bbq meeting in the day, then I had errands to run in the afternoon. That night I went down to coogee for my brothers bday, where he was out on the booze with his work mates at Cushion, the bar of the crown plaza coogee. After that made a quick stop over in town to say hi to Ben, it being his bday the day before! Drinking and driving dont mix so that was a light night on the booze..

Friday was a bludge. I needed it to catch up on sleep. I think I’m sleep deprived. Quite possibly true actually..

Saturday was back on the booze, for it was the big city drinks night. As usual we ended up at jacksons. As usual it was pretty good. I started late that night, so an exercise in rapid consumption was required heh. Highlights of the night include a bouncer recognising me. Negatives of the night include that same point, meaning perhaps I’m there too often

Sunday was geeking it up with the boys over at Johnnys for an xbox lan. 4 xbox 360s, 4 24″ or greater lcds, and a boat load of games. I’m in love with ghost recon at lans, and we had 4 copies of ghost recon 2 to rip through. Great fun! Thanks to julian and johnny for sorting out the games and having us. And to stephen for buying those maps we’ll some day have to check out! heh

Monday was.. gems bbq. Much fun! What a pesky neighbour, considering the minimal amount of noise. But we had a great time, and it was the first time I’d played the game of life, which is pretty cool! Every now and then, board games (decidedly old/low tech) dont seem so bad eh.. that and risk, that game rocks

Tuesday was the highlight! I went out on a boat overnight! See, this is a big deal for me, cos I’ve had a bit of fun before hiring out little day boats with the guys and generally making an ass of myself/ourselves (parking the boat dramas - damage that hopefully no one noticed after..). But I’ve never slept on a boat before. Never been on a cruise, etc. Well, one of our family friends just got his hands on a beautiful 37 foot long boat, and had us over for the night! Great fun. This needs piccies, so see below..

The boat is named Paradiso II. We took it up to refuge bay for the night.

Ya kinda have 4 main areas. Up top is the flybridge - you climb a ladder to get up to it. Up there, you have the main controls for the boat if you wish to drive it from up top. Two seats, a lounge like area, and a great front row place for hooking up a laptop to watch movies at night hehe.

My bro on the booze as usual, behind the wheel (stationary

Next area you have is the deck on the back. Terrible pic, but this is where you set up a table and chairs for meals etc. Great for chilling out the back. Jump off the back to go for a swim. Boats are amazing for the little hidey holes they have for storage - all kinds of little compartments in the walls around!

When you step inside, you have an enclosed area for general entertainment, kitchenette, etc. Off to the left is a table and lounge around it, to the right you can see more controls (can drive the boat up top or from inside). Kitchen is forward to the left. Through the tiny corridor up ahead are the cabin areas. One main cabin, a second with twin bunks on the right. Everything in a boat is like living in a mini apartment. Mini rooms, mini doors, mini door handles! Storage is *everywhere*. Under the floor - heaps of storage compartments. Behind every panel is storage pretty much. Oh, plus you can see the tiny tv - haha. Yeah they need to replace that.. ‘integrated vhs’ for the win!

As I said, we took the boat up to refuge bay for the night. Absolutely stunning up there. It’s in the middle of a national park, inaccessible via road. In that particular bay there were 10 to 20 boats moored, depending on the time of day. The next bay along is Americas bay. Lots of nice little areas of land to moore up for the night. There was a little beach with a huge waterfall - very hawt. We took the little dinghy (apparently called a ‘tender’ - what an odd name for a boat!) over to it (macho rowing man here, haha).

I’ll end with a couple of extra piccies, take a look.. its beautiful up there! I’d love to go again, maybe later this year haha. Summer would be AWESOME on a boat lol

The little beach and waterfall

Midday at refuge bay

Late afternoon on the water

Awesome long weekend, bit more relaxed Back to the grind now!