Off to Antarctica

We are sitting in a student flat right now waiting for tomorrow when we will board the Enderby for a month long trip around the sub antarctic islands.

Our gear, dive bins, bikes and kayak stuff, arrived in Invercargill courtesy of Neal and his wife via trailer and a speeding ticket – oops!

Already news has it that landing on the ice may not happen as pack ice of 160km is prohibiting getting anywhere near the Ross Ice shelf – fingers crossed everyone.  This has meant we will do the trip in reverse to try and take advantage of an opening that is appearing.

A tour of the maritime museum in Bluff in the morning then anchors away for Campbell Island.

Back on line in a month with lots of stories to tell.

Wellington Rugby Seven’s 2008

Wow! Where to start – what a weekend?!

This year the grand costume theme was cave people. I was supposed to be a cave woman, but I felt more like a plonker wearing a black & white Zebra outfit with a bone stuck in my hair. The boys outfits rocked, they had squeaking rubber chickens, beards, wigs and brown rags.

The PC ban on borat outfits and fake weapons was pathetic, if parents don’t like their kids seeing it then don’t take them, if you don’t like being squirted with water then stay at home – your couch is looking mighty fine. Speaking of couches did you get a glimpse of the boys dressed up as sofa’s, they decided the night before and gutted out their lounge suite of their flat – students!

We had a great bunch of guys down from the Hawkes Bay in our section, the best Marilyn Munroe you’ve seen in a while. Hard case weekend.

So, now for the actually rugby – what rugby? How did we fair?

We kicked the Samoan booty – then paraded around the field with shirts off doing the haka – yummy! Just like Christmas. Lean, fit boys.