Canberra continued...

So we pick up the Canberra story on the Sunday morning. No touch watching this time, just sightseeing. Kicked the day off with a trip to the National Museum. It was pretty quiet there, very dark inside and made us VERY sleepy indeed. We spent a good hour and a half wandering around, lost each other and spent 10 minutes sitting around the corner from each other in the sports section waiting for the other to walk past... silly. Headed into Civic for some lunch and found ourselves a nice little cafe and an omlette. Tried once more to have coffee at this chocolate shop but it was full so just wandered about down town. Had a look in a record shop that had these great racks of dresses up the back. There were a few nice ones, but nothing in my size, there were for minatures I think! Probablyjust as well since funds were already running pretty low. A phone call from our touch representative who wanted to hit the National Gallery with me and we headed out to the fields to pick him up toting coffee, which attracted a circle of fans quite quickly! We only had 45 minutes or so in the Gallery since they were closing at 5, but we did see Sid's Ned Kelly collection I was interested in so that was all good.

A leisurely walk back to the touch quarters and everyone was winding down and getting ready for the night out on the town. We hit the only pub we knew in town; back to King O'Malley's. The teams were getting a bit serious on some points so my mates and I just found ourselves a table way from all the pedantry and had a few drinks. Frangelico, lime and soda: YES! We were a little surprised by all the note taking and meeting bizzo going on with the teams to be honest. I mean, they had just been comprehensibly beaten by all and sundry, what could there be to talk about? Just have a drink and go home! One team was in the corner for ages looking really serious doing god knows what. And the teams had some kind of fine system going, fines for quoting Shrek, fines for not, fines for saying stupid things, fines for not doing team stuff and they all got WRITTEN DOWN, like it was a really serious issue or something. Personally I think when something has become so organised and systemised all the fun is just taken right out of it because it's just a chore. Hopefully people have chilled out a bit by the time I'm in a team!

Anyway, as you can see from the photos in the last post; Shrek did make an appearance. Shrek got very drunk indeed and provided plenty of entertainment. I got quite drunk and managed to stay up until about 4am! Luckily I, unlike most of the touch team, including the bloke I kept up talking all night, did not have to get on a 6:30am flight back to Adelaide! I'm told there were some very untidy people on that flight. Wiffy. I, however, slept in until 10 ish, had a late brekkie and headed back to the gallery to look around, have lunch and chill out quietly before picking up my host and heading out for lunch. It was a bit of a novelty driving around since I don't do that very often anymore! A bit of pasta and gelato and we were feeling pretty sleepy indeed. But we couldn't have me leave Canberra without a visit to the Southern Hemisphere's largest sex shop. So off we went. Yeah, it's pretty large and well stocked! Managed to restrain from making any purchases despite the very tempting 35% off sale. Basically I ended the weekend with $6.85 in my purse. Usually an indication of either a great time or a particularly bad time - and in this case a Great Time! yar.

So here I am, back in Adelaide, now able to say I have visited the capital of Australia. And what do i think of the wee town? Hmm, let's just say the reason I had a good time was more because of the company than the location... But it just goes to show how important the people you surround yourself with are - they can turn boring into exciting just like that!