Life in Sydney

Our life is pretty easy going in he sense that we're not massively out on the town a lot of the time and don't do things like go shopping or go out a lot - because we are trying to be good.

We had our anniversary the other weekend - three years now! But unfortunately I was ill - I had a pretty bad cold and though I thought that I would have beaten it by the weekend, it got me properly then and we couldn't go out.

Then last weekend we thought we'd go whale watching as our anniversary gift and then go out for dinner to celebrate as we hadn't been able to do so the weekend before.

We had wanted to go whale watching for a while and now is apparently the best season to do it! The boats leave from just down our street and we went on with a couple more mates. I was very excited and weather was good - what could g wrong?

Well, plenty... really ... Once we were out at sea, things were fine for a while and then the waves got bigger an bigger and we were trying to find these whales and the boat was going up and down and up and down and up and down... and I got very ill.

Very ill.

It was a big boat, I didn't think it would be a problem and also in the Whitsundays when we had that terrible weather, I managed to work through it. Well, not this time. I threw up of course. Several times. I thought that maybe after the first round I would feel better and things would be sorted, a bit like when you've been car sick, but this wasn't like that at all. I kept going till I broke the bag and then I got a new one.

Did see two whales though - they were cool but they didn't jump or do anything - lazy sods - you really get to see more on Richard Attenborough, but it's still an experience. Then there was a crowd of dolphins following the boat but unfortunately I missed that as I was very busy at that point. Then we found another whale but I missed him too. Again, I was very busy at that point.

I was so relieved when we started our way back to shore... I am not a seafaring kind of person - I think I learnt my lesson. I keep trying to see if it gets better but I think this is really something that is not meant to be.

So basically I spent $70 to spend four hours on a boat throwing up. I could have done the same thing taking a ferry to Manly for about $4. But then again I wouldn't have seen a whale...

To be honest though, when I was feeling awful, all the whales in the world could have swum by juggling baby dolphins and I still wouldn't have been impressed...

No more boats for me....

So after this though, we decided we couldn't go out for dinner, because I really wasn't too well even after I came off the boat - it took me a good few hours to feel like myself again - honestly it's not fair!

The Friday night also was a big night out form work and we all had a quite a few drinks - it was our month end and so we were all drinking loads and didn't have to pay for anything which was great! Hooray! I got trashed and then walked home just randomly by myself - to be honest, I don't know really how I made it home. Phil was meant to meet me along the way but somehow we missed each other and I ran into a lot of scaffolding and hurt my shoulder but apart from that, I was fine! Hooray! Had a stinking hangover though to be honest... Oh dear... I guess that didn't help on the boat either.