Sumo, Music and birthdays

So continuing on my new found flow of writing posts, here is another update. 

Last saturday was Chris's birthday, so we all went all to Rum Diaries, a nice little tapa's place in bondi.  We had a table for 6 booked but when we arrived, we found we were through the back in a little room all to ourselves.  The room was bizarre and as chris commented it resembled what you would imagine Churchill's war chamber to look like.  It had really old furniture, including a fire place from the 1930's, an old wind up telephone and some weird pictures of Jesus on the wall, also our table was in fact an incredibly old chest with carvings and some money trapped under the glass.  There was also a huge bookcase taking up one whole wall in the room, and after inspecting this we found that there was a hidden door in the book case, unfortunately nothing exciting was to be found behind apart from a staff office, where the restaurant music was controlled. 

Chris getting his birthday cake:

The police also joined us for a wee while too, doing there regular safety checks they had to stand in our little room as we ate waiting for the manager in the staff office.  It was all very bizarre, but an enjoyable evening had by all, thanks to Lisa for organising.

Then this weekend it was Greig's birthday.  That was mainly celebrated by watching scotland losing in the final moments of the RWC to England.  We then drowned our sorrows for a couple of hours.  Typical Scotland, so close, but never able to get over the line.

On friday night we had another work event, Hahn Super Dry Third Half Sumo Wrestling.  This was when a man mountain, took on a football team and a ladies roller hockey team.  The idea was that each team of 10 took it in turn to compete against the actual sumo wrestler in order to win money, $50 if you lasted 15 seconds and $1000 if you could beat him.  At the end of round one the girls team were winning by a couple of grand, I think mr sumo was taking it easy on them.  Never the less it was highly entertaining. 

Sabrina and Kate waiting for the action to begin.

He may have taken it pretty easy against the girls but the guys didn't stand a chance, in fact one guy got pushed so hard by him that he ended up landing in the crowd.

A few of us left the sumo early, to head back over to RFT (see friday's posting) to catch the last act performing at the Living Room.  Tim Freedman, formerly of the Whitlams fame, was the closing act on what had been a great week. 

Paul Mac, introducing him above.

Tim Freedman, was highly entertaining although i am not sure what the sponsor American Express would have made about him working his way through a bottle of wine as he performed.  The night was then rounded off by everyone have celebratory drinks, and I even managed to get to know my new Nashville cowboy guitar teacher a bit better, an incredibly nice man with plenty of interesting stories about his days touring as a rock star.

I think that's about enough blogging for one weekend, until next time.