1 month & 24 years

Not a shabby way to spend a birthday, although working at the Croft, James and I did manage to down several shots, beers, cocktails and some more out of control shots.

We certainly continued on after work until the wee hours of the morning, when the sun starts to rise and the birds start to chirp.

It was fantastic to enjoy the day sleeping and dreaming about the joys that I am looking forward to encountering in only 1 months time. 20 days of proper work left, a few things to organise and several cervezas to drink. God, I'm gonna miss Coopers!

From the middle of the desert 2 Mars

Well, I never knew I liked rocks so much! But if you've ever been out to the red center of Australia, you'll not only have a greater understanding of rocks, but of heat, nature, hiking and cold beer!

I'm told alot's changed @ Uluru since the good old Ayres Rock days, for one we weren't able to camp at the base of the rock which I'm told by mum we did some 20 odd years ago, it still is an amazing place to visit and awesome area to explore.

And when I say explore, I don't mean driving around in an airconditioned 4WD for 4 days (although this is how we got here from Alice), I mean walking, hiking, climbing and close to dehydrating under the 43oC sun.

I did some mythbusting of my own and discovered that you can actually still climb the big rock, as seen below doing it in true Aussie style in the vollies.

The top of the rock is amazing, it was literally like being on the top of Mars! Kings Canyon was also amazing! Fucking hot, but fantatsic. I had a real blast, you'll find many more photos to the link on the right.

Alice Springs was also a good adventure and great to spend some time with the family. Didn't get out to mix with the locals much, too knackered from walking about 10k a day. However, I was impressed to find that there was a free flowing supply of Coopers around town!

I won't continue to bore you with more rock talk, so take care of yoursleves and ensure you keep an eye on things to come! Only 5 weeks to go till the big one!

Cheers,

Nathanial

What a weekend!

Well, it's now Tuesday night and Lilla & I have spent the last 4 in Adelaide. The trip started off with us missing our first flight by about 5 minutes. Apparently now with new terrorism laws, you MUST have checked in with half an hour to spare. It actually didn't matter too much anyway as we had to return to Lilla's as I had left my suit there which I needed for the wedding we attended on Saturday. We were put onto the next flight at no extra charge so it all worked out alright.

Friday night was an awesome chance to catch up with some old amigos. About 25 of us met to dine on some rather grande Argentinian Steaks and Seafood @ Gaucho's. I thought that the 700g T-bone was for me, but what really topped it off was the $17 King Prawn Sauce!



As usual, dinner turned into drinks and drinks into heading out for a night on the town for pretty much everybody apart from 1 very drunk amigo who thought food fights at the dinner table was cool. Funny for us, not so for the waitresses.

Saturday morning was spent slightly ill, but we had to pull ourselves together for Brad & Beck's wedding. It was a beautiful day and the guys looked fantastic, my first high school mates to get married, what the hell is the world coming too!



Check out more photos on my Flickr link to the right.

Saturday night at the reception was also great to catch up with everybody. Sunday morning was a little slow, breaky down by the beach with Mum & Lil. Open House at Mr & Mrs Jolley's, BBQ at Stubzy's and dinner with Brenno, Rhonda & Team.

Yesterday and today have been a little slower, catching up with more amigos, drinking plenty of lager, eating, swimming (as the coldest it's been since we got here has been 25) and just taking it easy! Up up and away again tomorrow, heading north to the Alice with mum and brothers to catch up with Cassie, my sister. Gonna head down to Uluru on Thursday which will be a bit of fun and eventually make my way home on Sunday.

It's been a blast so far, can't wait to climb the big red rock!

Stay tuned for further updates and ensure you keep an eye on the photo link on the right for some outstanding shots!

Cheers,

Nathanial