Almost there...

Hello,

So the big event is almost upon us and I am a little over it now.  I just want to get the damn thing done with so I don't have to feel nervous anymore!!  I am pretty much all packed for the event and have enough clothes and food to feed an army so now we are just finalising logistics of where the support crew are going to meet us, whet they need to bring and most importantly what food they going to cook for us!  We're anticipating that we'll reach St Ives Showground (this is where we finished after our training walk last week) which will be where we get dinner at around midnight on Friday so I imagine its going to be a rather hefty bowl of pasta Shanes wife is going to be cooking since we'll have been walking since 7am.  St Ives also marks the 60km point so when we arrive at least we'll be well over half way!  There is going to be a big Sausage Sizzle at checkpoint 2 (Berowra Community Centre, where we started last week) which is good since we'll be at about 30km by then and may have been walking for about 8 hours by then!  I am very much looking forward to the Sausage Sizzle! 

Haven't really had time to do any training in the past week or so so I may just go for a bit of a run this week to get the blood pumping but that will be it.  On Friday it's all systems go.  I have to be on a bus at 4am to get into the city and then on a train at 4.45am to get up to that start point in time to register and be ready for the 7am start.  Lol I wouldn't want to be around me on Friday morning when I've been up since 3am!

So this week is going to be pretty quiet.  I am carb loading which is fun as it means I can eat loads and not feel guilty about it!  Pasta, pasta, pasta!!!!  Just trying to get plenty of sleepahead of the weekend and that's about it.

The weekend was good fun.  I went to a lovely Seafood restaurant in Darling Harbour on Thursday night and had the biggest tuna steak I have ever seen in my life.  It was so big I couldn't even eat it all!  On friday I went to see Panic at the Disco who were excellent although Shane and I spent most of the night laughing at the girl standing in front of us who was so miserable that even her friend left her!  Shane (housemate Nathans brother who I went to the gig with) is super cool and really nice.  He even bought me a t-shirt even though he had insisted that I didn't need to pay for the gig ticket and just had to buy him a few beers!  It was crazy!  The worst part of it was that the bar shut at 10pm which sucked big time!

On Saturday I finally moved house!  HOOOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  I moved into my new pad in Newtown which is a cool place to live and now I've moved I can tell you that there was actually an attempted armed robbery in Parramatta last week and one of the robbers got shot and killed but I figure that since it was a robber and not one of the people being robbed then that wasn't so bad!  I saw all the police cars etc blocking the street when I was walking home from the train station but that was as close as I got.  Soooooooooo glad to be out of Parramatta though! 

Had to stay in on Saturday night cos I was working on Sunday.  Yesterday the Rabbitohs had their last home game of the season against Canberra Raiders and I think I have decided that even though they got spanked (19-6 up at HT then collapsed in the second half) I am going to change from being a Rooster to a Rabbitoh from now on.  I just really like them and of course the lovely Craig Wing plays for them too!  So I'm a Rabbitoh now!  To say thanks to Shane for the gig I gave him and his dad some members tickets for the game so they didn't have to pay.

Yesterday was pretty cool cos when I was walking in to the office I saw Brett Kimmorley who plays for Cronulla and has played Origin and for Australia so that was cool and then at the end of the game after weeks of looking and not seeing anything I finally saw Russell Crowe!!  He's always here for games cos he owns the Rabbitohs but I've never seen him.  Some people told me he was pretty short but they were clearly lying as he was at least 6 foot tall!  He didn't look Hollywood at all though and I had to look at him sneakily as he complains if people stare at him and can apparently be a bit grumpy too.  I think it's kinda funny that he complains that people stare at him - hello Hollywood actor what do you expect!

Last night I went to Jen's house for her birthday BBQ which was good although everyone was hammered by the time I got there.  Had an excellent time though and got home just in time to go to bed!

The good news is that after next weekend I am officially donw with working every single weekend as the regular season will be over.  At the moment none of our NRL teams can make the top 4 (they're struggling to even make the top 8 at the moment) so we won't have any home play offs in week 1.  The only way we'll get a game at ANZ is if the NRL decide the venues for the matches aren't big enough for the anticipated crowd then they'll shift it but I can't really see that happening.  Our other team the Sydney Swans are now in danger of dropping out of the play off places altogether as they suck and have lost god knows how many games in a row.  So potentially no games in September, NRL Grand Final in October and then Andre Rieu (yep I've never heard of him either but he plays the violin!) is playing 3 concerts over 3 nights here.  I am never going to want to hear another violin as long as I live after that!

I am definitely going to more of a tourist after that!  I still have to see so many places and I'm running out of time and I'm sick of every blog entry saying Sydney on it!  

xx