To surf or not to surf

It really is funny here how people think a high of 19 and a low of 12 with a 27km/h wind is bone chilling. "The wind just blows right through you..." they exclaim. It's really quite funny.

I've been really lucky to keep watching the Stanley Cup finals at work this week, which obviously culminated in a Hawks win. I'm a bit sad that Hossa won the cup, since I took a bit of sick pleasure in his galloping from losing team to losing team, but he finally picked a winner and he has a cup. Philly really did play quite well and with a lot of heart but they lost to a much superior team. Great playoffs all the way through and I am very eagerly awaiting July 1.

This weekend is a long weekend down under as it's the Queen's birthday. Not Queen Elizabeth II, mind you, but some other queen. Probably Victoria. We were going to head up the coast and do a 4x4 camping tour on Fraser Island, the world's largest full sand island but we've decided against it. We might save it for when some of you fine people come down here and visit us. It would be mind blowing so we're not ashamed to wait for warmer weather.

Andrea continues searching for work, seemingly to no avail. I'm confident she'll find something awesome, though. There are a few jobs down here that would be great for me to apply to post internship, and that day is fast approaching, so I think I'll get on that pretty quick. Although there isn't much of a direct upside in it, there is a new kind of bar down here that just opened up that I can only describe as a 'video game bar', that I would love to work for. I think it's a great model for a bar/pub and could be directly ported back to Canada and could really take off. So I'd love to work there and find out how they started it up and how they plan to make it successful, but we'll see how that goes. I might have to work there for free, too. LOL. My life is turning into an Ayn Rand novel, just without the extreme financial success of the main characters.

My supervisor at work is Scottish and is really, really, really into the World Cup. Our whole office is going to follow the World Cup and cheer on the Socceroos in their quest for the cup! I encourage you to watch the tournament as well, since your alternatives are basketball and baseball...ugh.

Chris