Rob and Jan's Wedding
What a beautiful wedding. Rob and Jan got married on a friend's farm about an hour south of Perth. I think it's the most genuine wedding I've ever seen, complete with custom made Fibonacci sequence rings by Rob, a Fresh Prince inspired rap by Jenny, and a gate crashing kangaroo having the time of her life eating the flowers.
The ceremony was gorgeous, Rob and the groomsmen had very unique and elegant suits with elbow patches, and Jan looked incredible in her dainty lace top and pleated skirt with pearl buttons. They made a great choice on food and drinks, with the Eat no Evil food truck making the best wedding food I've ever had, and Colonial beer making a big appearance.
It was also my first experience camping in a tent. Rob and Jan were awesome enough to set up a tent city made up of all the guests' tents so that we didn't have to do any hard work when we arrived.
I was quite tentative about the idea, but thought it would be fun and didn't want to be too much of a princess about it. Well... I hated it. I don't think it helped that the guest in the tent next to us was spewing IN his tent the whole night, the air mattress was so bouncy that I would flip over completely every time Andrew moved, it was raining (and the toilet was a porterloo that was quite hard to use especially without my contacts in), and I got bitten by an evil mystery bug that left a big jellyfish-like sting on my neck. But I was very brave and I survived! I don't think I'll ever go camping.
The Room at Luna Leederville
Next year I'll have to force more people to come to this, it's such a fun night! Our little group of friends has grown as people have become The Roomies and have started bringing their own friends along to watch the worst movie ever.
The Ninja Academy
For our first software department social event I organised a freestyle session at the Ninja Academy. We had a pretty good turn out and had fun trying to figure out all the crazy obstacles. I love how excited everyone got when they conquered an obstacle (in particular the perspex wall which Andrew and Anne managed to get!). I really like it there and would like to start taking some classes with the guys who run it who I am completely in awe of.
Feral Tusk Day at The Bird
So this was actually meant to be Feral Tusk Day at Petition. We were planning to get to Petition at 6pm but I got a message from Andrew P saying it was all sold out at around 5:15pm after tapping at 4pm. Andrew managed to crack the hints on Facebook and figure out that The Bird were probably going to have a keg of Feral's limited release 11% double IPA. We got there and there luckily was still half a keg left so we each got a pint and also bought one for Andrew P who had missed out at Petition (for 2 years in a row) and was about to get on the train home.
It wasn't a gimmick, Tusk was delicious.
So I've almost made it through our first month back. I think keeping busy is the key to keeping PJD at bay, and other than this fun stuff work is definitely making sure that that's happening.
