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Published: February 5th 2006
Hey everyone again hope your all going well. The last few days for me have been an active few to say the least,in the last few days i must of travelled a long long way by foot and my legs are definatley starting to pay for it now. First of all the next morning after my epic last blog there second daughter Hannah who is a year older then all of us got back from her year tour of Aisa. She is really nice, she is really friendly and has offered to take us places and given us ideas to do and things to see. Big T (Tony) and Helen were obviously overwhelmed she was back and so were the kids Rob and Becks. She said China was horrible and that there all really dirty spit everywhere eern on trains and things like that and they dont wash, certainly puts me off going there. She also went to Japan which she liked and South Korea which was her favourite by quite a bit said that was spotless and a lot more pleasent than Japan. I never met someone thats main language is English and can speak fluent Chinese pretty impressive. After
hearing some of her storys from her year away we decided to go and play some tennis this time i took my digital camera so i got some action shots as you can see. Harry came out on top this time winning all his games where as Giles found some more form which he had been previously lacking, where as i would describe myself as rubbish and way below usual form. Then later that evening becky had a netball match so we thought might as well wernt doing anything at the time so just tag along the game itself was an epic back and forward the whole time. One funny thing was the clash of beckys goalkeeper and the opposing teams striker. Even putting nicely they were absolute GIANTS just huge and beastly!!! and they were just jossling with each other the whole game it was pretty epic. Beckys team should have won but they just capitulated in the last quarter which was a shame. But it was gd watching becks friend and one of the referees who were extremely fit strut there stuff up and down the court for the game(kept us interested).
The next day was a
bit of a crucial one for me and harry we were off to Quantas to find out how much it would cost us to change our flights and cut two weeks off the trip. We went in there and told them our circumstances and how much we were willing to pay to get them changed and they said we could change them for $25!!! Super cheap bout 12 pounds for both of them so thats good news for all of you that cant wait to see us already!! I now get back on June 2nd Friday 9pm and we are both gonna play cricket the next day as long as picked!! Now thats committment for you!! And if anyones feeling like a holiday last week in may your more than welcome to come and meet us in New York. After findind out the good news that we were gonna save some money and play a bit more cricket we decided to go to the cinema with some movie tickets that Helen had given us and we decided to go and watch Big Momma's house 2 because Jarhead is not out over here yet and that was pretty funny. We went
to the cinema in the casino was massive had bout 8 screens and they were each bigger than gunwharf and we sat in and watched it with 4 other people which was quite funny!! I also made the mistake of buying popcorn!! Grr thought it would be nice and sweet only to find out it was covered in salt absolutley disgusting so that was the end of that luckily Gavumpy (Giles New Nickname) liked it so i gave it to him. Gavumpy is just a mixture of Gav and Grumpy Giles. Trust me he dont like it but me and harry find it really funny and he always rises to it so it keeps us saying it.
The next day we planned to play golf and we planned to find our own way there by walking it, as i thought i new where it was and how to get there. The boys trusted me and we set off after bout 5 mins i said this isnt the way we should of gone but we will be able to get back on the right track in no time which of course we didnt, we were just walking through suburb after
suburb without much we recognised. I asked a couple of people for directions which were a bit vague so me made what we could of them and just kept walking guessing our way there. By the way this trip if u walk the right route should take 15 mins and by the time i had asked the third person we had already been walking for over and hour. They finally told us we were near and gave us the final directions, we got there after about 1 hour 20 mins from setting off from the house!! Nightmare!!!! At this time i dont think any of us actually felt like playing golf just wanted to go back and rest our feet!! Anyway we went and hired clubs and started our round we managed to get stuck behind the slowest golfers in history just to annoy us that little bit more. Then it came out turn to tee off i decided i would go first put my ball down with bout 8 people behind us started to get a little nervous and then the nerves shone through as i shanked it completly as it flew off to the right and hit a
protective fence covering the next hole about 20 yards away could tell this was gonna take a while then after we took bout 8 shots each on the Par 4 first we rushed off the green to the second to hide with embarressment. Luckily for us that was the worst hole we played all round and we all improved consideribly from then on. Me and Harry are not as good as Giles so Harry had 5 shots on Giles over the whole round not per hole and i had 2 to make it a bit fairer. The course was ok pretty simple but was gd laugh playing. On 7th hole i think it was we were all on the green and i was just bout to putt when a ball landed next to my feet. It scared the crap outta me, then we turned our heads to find these two aussies were playing there shots without a care in the world that we were on the green!! Great! So Giles went and spoke to him and asked whether they wanted to go through and they said no its fine and Giles told us he didnt even think they knew the
rules. After that close shave we speeded up our play a bit to avoid getting one of our heads knocked off!!!!!!! It came down to the final hole with me and Giles and Harry all level on our scoring system. Giles went first hooked it off to the left then took another and did the same not gd for him!! Then Harry scuffed his shot but right down the middle of fairway so in a good position then i hit one cleanly for once came just off edge of the green on a short par 3 harry chipped short then 3 putted to get a 5 and giles also which left me with 4 shots to get it in!! I managed to put it home in 2 to get the first par out of any of us for the round and take the victory oh sweet success!! Another one to tick off im not UWB at. Then we walked back which took us 15 min and had bout 20 mins before i had to set off for the dreaded ........................Aquathon.
The Aquathon
We got there and the original plan was for Tony to do all the swimming and
Me run 3k of the run and Harry do the other 1.5k but we soon found out that was not possible as you could only have teams of 2 so we ended up having Me ad Rob and Tony and Harry. So me and Harry had to do 4.5k each which i was not that mad about but harry was as he took enough persuading just to run a leg. Before our run though we had the kids event which Rob ran in and the short course event. Beforehand Tony, Helen, Rob and Becks had been telling me how theres this 12 year old kid was an absolute freak and was just amazing. I though he would be ok but i having never seen anything like it a 12 year old with a six pack and no body fat wot so ever, he was a machine. The first race the kids one Vulcan won with ease to be honest it was a run swim then run again. Rob came third. Then straight away after it was the short course where some the adults joined in. There was bout 5 men of age 19-25 all built and looked really physically fit.
Then Vulcan appeared as well he was running in this event as well. This event was 1.5k 250m swim 1k run. They set off and 2 off the men came in first and second then quickly follewed by vulcan i was shocked he could keep up then they dived into the pool and he was obviously the stronger swimmer and started to catch up, when he jumped out of the pool he was in 1st position but from the 1st leg the other guys seemed like stronger runners so we though he would have to settle for 3rd position. But then about 5 mins later we see vulcan running in alone and everybodys face just looked shocked. he had just beat about 10-15 men and hes 12 absolutley ridiculous. He was just a machine.
Then in the final race it was the men doing the race we were doing but they were doing it on there own and the teams and women. I was actually getting some nervous energy pass through my body at this stage and started to get butterfies must of been the first time i had raced competitivley in years and years. Then as we walked
to the briefing area i see vulcan next to me!! he was running the 4.5k in a team as well this kid was just unreal. The course it self meant we had to run out of the pool complex run in to the field which was used for cricket and aussie rules so massive and do 2 laps around that back up the path completley round the building and then back into the swimming complex. Looked fun. We set off for the start the men starting 2 mins ahead to avoid congestion even though would have sprinted away anyway, then it was our turn the teams and the womens he counted us down 5...4...3...2...1...GO..... an we were off and one hell of a pace thought we were trying to set some sort of olympic record, i thought this isnt what i signed up for!!! We then got onto the oval from off the concrete and it was so much harder running on the spongey grass than the tarmac. Me and Harry we pretty even the first lap until the last 400m where i overtook him as he seemed to be tiring a bit and then we got back to the
complex and i tagged Rob to do swimming then i got some fluids on board had a rest expecting bout 10 min then after bout 3-4 min he jumped out again and tagged me and was shouting "GO GO GO" and i was like ahhhh and set off for my second lap. my legs were already wiery from the walk to golf and back and now they were getting gradually worse and worse. I ran the second one not as quick but still at a reasonable pace with Harry finding it tough quite far behind me!! I completed the second leg and my body was just saying to me thats my lot give up now and i sure felt like that but i could not let rob down so i dug in. He seemed to swim exceedingly quick again and give me little rest bite. I set off for my final laps with no energy left legs aching mouth dry thinking im going to faint. It was a lot different to the gym where it was on a treadmill doing it for my own benefit this time i was working as hard as i could going full out. I ran
the last lap with just pure commitment dnt think i had any energy left i was just being committed and run as fast as i could then just as i completed my last lap of the oval harry came on to it for his final 2 then i ran round the building for a final time and fell to the floor as i slapped Robs hand. It was seriously tough made even harder by our shocking preperation no lunch walked miles dont no how we did it. Harry walked the last lap and came in out 7 mins later before he tagged Tony for his last swim. Giles had doubted me before the race and backed Harry but i came through am dominated. Me and Rob as a team finished 6th as a team which was a gd effort with Harry and Tony coming last. Then after the race they had a women walking round interviewing people with a micriphone so everybody could here what we were saying, she was perticulally excited in speaking to us as we were international entrys it was a nice touch and a laugh. Harry thought he had got away without an interview but she
caught up with him and he had to say a few words too. Looking back then it was torture but im sure me and Harry would both say now we are glad we did it and might punish our bodys again next week.
I think someone needs to give Grumpy Giles some adventerous pills so he will liven up and consider doing a few more things rather than playing on Mario Kart for the N64 the whole time!!!!!!!
My body still ached for a couple of days after which was not really that great but it will not be as bad next time. After we rushed back from the Aquathon the new series of LOST was on so we watched that so i now know what is under the hole so if anyone wants to find out what is there and what happens they wil have to email me!!!
The next day we were off to the telstra dome to the cricket to watch Aussies vs South Africa which was gd but yet again the Aussies just dominated. Just as South Africa were doing well and in pole position with Aussies only having 2 out and out
Batsman left Hussy and Symonds fought back and then opened there shoulders and just punished everything that came there way and ended up getting 100 off the last 10 overs. Then Brett Lee cleared up again and it was all over.
After a long day at the cricket we were all quite tired and looking forward to getting back to our beds. We got back and noone seemed awake and then as we were watching tele Becky and Hannah came down stairs demanding we came out clubbing with them. Hannah was pretty adimant we were all going to go as she had walked upstairs and woke up Becky already whod been asleep since 9 so it didnt look like no was gonna be an option!! So i said yes that we would go out the boys were not to happy with me especially Unadventerous Giles who wanted his Grumpy Sleep but we got changed in double quick time and headed off into the city still half asleep. We got there and still not up for it but once i had got some drink down me we soon we more alive and ready to go!!! The first club we went
to was called Motel an upmarket night club right in the middle of th city which took a while to get into!! It had to floors and 2 dififferent DJ's and up strairs an open top like roof garden thing where everyone went which was really nice and cool and you could see the whole of melboure as you looked out lit up at night. It was really good. Me and the girls did some tequila's and then we headed off to a more local club One Bar to finsh the night off which was also gd and we danced the night away there untill we had enough. We then walked back to the house after a gd night out very tired. I was certainly glad we went out,not sure bout the other 2 but i think they enjoyed it as well!! We finally got to sleep at bout 5.30 yup very l8 clubs open a lot later over here!!
Yesterday we woke up bout 12 and just lounged around the whole day to tired to do anything then we cooked a barbeque and watched some movies in the evening.
Once again hope everyones doing great and well
and healthy. Its great to hear from everyone so please keep emailing me your views and what you are up to over there as well that will be brilliant.
Chaz x x x
P.S Few more pictures this time hope you all enjoy
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good to see your still a happy chappy buddha, good to see your all ok cant believe Chaz is exercising normally lazy at cricket. Harry you just the the same as you always do. ha ha Think you need to mention Liss CC a bit more may get sponsored