Wednesday, February 23, 2005
Road trip
With all the excitement of our new sports luxury Lexus (we got a new car on Saturday), Lucas, Hugo and I made the journey down to Thirroul* last Sunday to meet up with Luc's cousin Kaylee.
Despite the thunder and lightning, torrential rain and heavy fog, the journey was great to sleep in according to Hugo, full of great potential dangers according to me, and "just great" according to Lucas, which goes to show how much he loves that car. You can now forget wedding bells between the two of us.
Anyway, we didn't pick the best weather to travel in, but despite that we had a fantastic time and this is what we learnt:
BUT the best thing we learnt is that the drive must be done again in kinder weather conditions.
*For those who don't know, Thirroul (God knows how it's pronounced) is around 80km south of Sydney. The nearest city is Wollongong (pronounced wool-on-gong) is approximately 100kms south of Sydney and only a 10 min drive from Thirroul. The journey from Sydney takes around an hour and a half to accomplish.
Despite the thunder and lightning, torrential rain and heavy fog, the journey was great to sleep in according to Hugo, full of great potential dangers according to me, and "just great" according to Lucas, which goes to show how much he loves that car. You can now forget wedding bells between the two of us.
Anyway, we didn't pick the best weather to travel in, but despite that we had a fantastic time and this is what we learnt:
- Kaylee + Hugo = good clucky combination, Kaylee + Reina (Kaylee housemate) + Hugo = lethal clucky combination;
- According to Lucas, the nearby town of Bulli (pronounced Bull-eye) is actually pronounced Bully. We all have it wrong. He doesn't;
- There are few restaurants open in Wollongong on a Sunday evening and absolutely none in Thirroul;
- Those few open restaurants will take you about 30 mins to locate;
- You can pretty much cover all of Wollongong in that time;
- Changing a baby's nappy in a ladies' room the size of a toilet without letting anything (including skin) touch the surrounding areas and keeping the agitated baby quiet will make you feel like a super hero;
- Luc's technical skills are greatly appreciated in a Canadian bachelor pad with little to any IT know-how that is highly dependent on the Internet. He will be deemed 'hero of the month', which he'll quietly think is just about right;
- Road rules don't apply to Thirroul so the town is full of absolute speed fiends!
BUT the best thing we learnt is that the drive must be done again in kinder weather conditions.
*For those who don't know, Thirroul (God knows how it's pronounced) is around 80km south of Sydney. The nearest city is Wollongong (pronounced wool-on-gong) is approximately 100kms south of Sydney and only a 10 min drive from Thirroul. The journey from Sydney takes around an hour and a half to accomplish.
posted by kazumi at 12:19 am