Thursday, March 18, 2010

Scampi Meets The Rellies - Mar10

Scampi is now over 6 months old. After our wedding, my parents and aunty and uncle popped over for tea and coffee and got to spend quality time with him.

Attached are some "family" shots :-)



Scampi and "Great" Uncle Merv



Scampi, "Great" Uncle Merv and "Great" Aunty Ang



Scampi and Tracy (or a.k.a. "Aunty Tracy")



Scampi with my parents (a.k.a. Mum and Dad)





Mummy feeding Scampi a small treat





Scampi, doing a good impression of a sock puppet

High Speed Stag's Night - Mar10

As part of my stag's night, nine of us guys took a high speed jet ride across Sydney Harbour (courtesy of Down Under Jet). This preceded the heavy drinking night that followed and it was an excellent way to start the night out.

The specialty move was the "spin move" which involved taking the boat up to a high speed, then spinning it in one direction. I was given one of the wettest seats and was instantly drenched after the first spin!

We all agreed it was good value - we got out as far as the heads or the entrance to Sydney Harbour. All shots were taken with a Kodak waterproof disposable camera. As a side note, it felt weird to take a film in to get developed!

Using the first photo as a guide and from left to right, in attendance were (starting at the top row down): Carl Reaich (Best Man), Philip Beattie, Tim Riceman (Groomsman), myself, Craig Blair, Daniel Collard, Geoff Best, Michael von Geldern and Dale de Luca (out of shot as was holding the camera!).





Phil looking as though he is about to soil his pants....



Myself - totally oblivious to the imminent drenching....



Just after the first drenching suffered on the starboard side (and Craig on the far right realising his underpants are not in fact waterproof)....





Here I have captured the extent of the soaking - somewhere underneath this are nine saturated stags....



Next stop New Zealand!



Holding on for dear life whilst half of Sydney Harbour is emptied over us