Not an incredible amount to report since my last post, at least nothing as crazy awesome as the Margaret River trip. Had a wine-and-cheese party on Thursday, where I brought the bottle I got at Voyager Estates. Friday we had the Currie Hall Rivercruise, where they took us out on a boat on the Swan River for a few hours. That was fun - there was some sort of glo theme, so we all got painted up beforehand then we got to see ourselves glow in the blacklights they had on board - but the ceiling on the boat was also about two inches above my head which wasn't so awesome.
Fun story from Saturday, though: went to Cottlesloe Beach again and went for a run along the surf with Matt. We'd been going for maybe 10 minutes when we suddenly realized that, instead of being surrounded by happy laughing kids and beautiful women in bikinis, everyone around us was, well, old dudes who were all very, very much in the nude. Yes, we ran straight into the Perth nude beach, which had absolutely no sign or marker or demarcation - just all of a sudden everyone goes from swimsuit to birthday suit. We figured that was probably a good time to turn around. Also got to play some tennis Saturday night (they finally fixed the lights on the Currie Hall court).
Sunday, though I had signed up to be on the Currie Hall team for City to Surf, which is Perth's biggest run that is held every year for charity. Checking the website, over 40,000 people were running this year's event (the start was pretty insane, they have 5 different starting groups for the 12K alone, they also do a 4K, half marathon, and marathon). True to its name, City to Surf starts in the middle of downtown Perth and is run along a 12 kilometer course to City Beach. For those uniniated in the metric system, which I think is everyone reading this blog, 12 kilometers is about 7 1/2 miles. I'm definitely not in that great of running shape, but I made it through the race just fine - only had to stop and walk once, and that was on a steep hill close to the end, and I'm not that sore today. Hey, I even finished third among the Currie Hall team - out of three people who ran.
No idea what my official time was, it should be posted fairly soon. The winner ran 36:56, I can tell you with confidence that I was quite a bit slower than that (I think it was just a bit over an hour). Anyways, I had a ton of fun running in what by far was the biggest footrace I've ever been in, and as soon as I got back I ate two plates of pasta and meatballs, three pears, a peanut butter and nutella sandwich, and drank a jug of kool aid, then went and had a three hour nap.
One last story to leave you all with: on the bus home from City to Surf I saw a guy wearing a Seahawks hat, which got me really excited until I talked to him and he'd never actually been there (his dad sent him the hat). Still, it was kind of fun to see a sign of home in such a faroff land.
Sorry I have no pictures for this post, I'll try to do something else awesome soon so I can post pictoral evidence of it online. School is actually picking up a bit (my first actual assignment is due Friday!) so I will be a little busier for the next few weeks. Sure I'll still find some time to have fun, though. Football season starts soon - Go Huskies!
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