Birthday weekend, Sydney, NSW So another of these annual dates rolls around again, and this one, seems just a little bit of a non-event... late 20's (no hiding from it!), but a year off the big one. That said, I had a great weekend celebrating it.
I arrived home from work on Friday evening to find a large manilla envelope stuffed in the mailbox. I opened it up and found 2 sealed copies of "What Digital Camera" magazine. I instantly new what this meant, and I hurriedly pulled the plastic wrapping and began flicking through. As I reached page 74, there it was, my first photograph in a magazine! Okay, so the contents of the manilla envelope are all I got in return for this, but it's a nice achievement never the less :)So to the big day, which for obvious reasons is always a day of reflection, but with the fact that today heralded my 3rd Sydney City 2 Surf race - it was even more sentiment to the anniversary. After running it last year, this year I decided to crawl it; via the pubs en route.
I headed in to the city with the boys, as all those thousands of people that I was part of last year, line up and psyche up for Australias biggest 'fun' run. 14kms ain't really ever fun. This time however, we stood by and watched the masses pound the tarmac up through to Kings Cross. Once the people we knew had made fleeting appearances, we headed into the pub and started on our first beers of the day, before 10am :)
The plan was to pub-crawl the route. But with hardly any pubs open at this time of day, it was looking a little tricky. So we headed to the Sheaf in Double Bay, had more beers, played some group pool and then jumped in cabs to the Bondi Beach Road Hotel... the rest played out a little like the past 2years before it. I took a few calls from around the world today, to which I was overjoyed that people had remembered me all the way around the other side of the globe. Thankyou.A week followed where I would finish dinner excitedly, looking forward to my leftover ice-cream birthday cake.
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