A wonderful day =)
Hey guys! i'm gonna blog about 3 things, but only 1 in detail. That's gonna be the church BBQ that was on Monday, (awesome day XD) and the easter sunday before, and the ....tuesday after XD.
Where to start...ah Easter Sunday, i'll just say it was pretty ordinary for me, i mean sure the occassion was awesome and couldn't be any better acknowledged but.....well, i got sick that day =_=" and was in like 3 items so needless to say i wasn't too happy about that....still though, it was great, and the special mention goes to the choir, and all members of the choir who performed admirably. Well done all =) and of course the Young Adults, who put on a stunning show. Go you guys!
Now the BBQ.
It was at a place called Churchman's brooke dam, on the most perfect of days. The weather was nice and cool, sun was shining and there wasn't a cloud in sight. How i would pay if everyday were like that. But anyway,
Alot, and wait, i mean, alot of people turned up. Just in the youth i think there were at least 20, add another 20-30 parents or so and you end up with a grand total of approximately 50 people. Luckily the picnic area was nice and spacious, so we had lots of room to move around and mingle. The first thing that everybody did though, was go on a walk to explore the surrounding region and the actual dam itself.
After walking around the general picnic area and coming across errr..
i'll err....leave it to your imagination as to deciding what that is. David couldn't help commenting that it was a bucketful of turd though >.> (he might well be right though =\). Camwhoring was inevitable, and we grabbed some random groups of people to just take nice shots by the nice little brooke that was running through our area.
aww what a beautiful shot. Lovely group of girls they are, and then there was....
erm yes *cough cough*, moving on....
We walked up the narrow (slippery) steps to get a view of the dam from high up...my my we weren't dissapointed. Take a look for yourself, i dont think my pictures do proper justice to the actual scene (put in a fresh breeze and the gentle warming heat of the sun sitting in a cloudless aquamarine sky and voila!)
i actually purposely took the ugly banks to show what our government means by 'low-level' and let me tell you, for once, the government aint pulling your leg. The leves are (well, at least in this dam) extremely low. So people, people, as honest citizens interested in the welfare of our state (and perhaps our future) i urge you to think about this picture.....and how much nicer it would have been if the water levels were up. CONSERVE water please!!!!! ok, that's my government propaganda issue for the day.
There we go, sorry i was taking it with one hand, that's why the tilt is a bit off XD but that's a better (still bad though) shot of the pristine waters that comprise churchman's brooke dam. Love how there are trees and everything in the shot....sky looks lovely as well, but we digress.
Whilst we were up there, we made full use of the view to take some senseless shots, this particular one influenced by Tak:
and i'm not sure what we were meant to do but it was good nonetheless....yeah thanks a heap Ken =_='
Oh well, whilst walking along there, i look just in time to see David kick my soccer ball down the side of the dam XXXXXXXXXDDDDDDDDDDDD good work there XD. FORTUNATELY, it was the side where there was no water, just like a rocky slope, and we had to talk him into climbing UP it, not rolling DOWN it, justified by the fact that if he tried the latter, he probably wouldn't have been in the shots we took later XD.
So as we were walking down, we noticed that they labeled the toilets "Adam" for male, and "Eve" for female. Implying in a sense that the Garden of Eden could be compared to Churchman's Brooke. Could i just blatantly say now...err Churchman's brooke is lovely, but um, no. just ..... no. Anyway i noticed that Adam had some....extra anatomical features added on to him. if you take my meaning. I wont go there though ~_~
So there we are walking down and when we reach the bottom, we hear somebody yelling out from the top, upwards we lift our eyes and lo and behold:
We remember we left David up there, since he went up to collect the ball XD. There he is (on the right) with Leonie. sorry dude XD
After coming down, our whole group ate lunch, and ran to the field to play a game of 'captain ball'. Obviously i'm not going to elaborate on how to play the game here, but it was good fun. We won the first half 9-6. Then the second half, Cham came and we got owned 20-16. Which Sharon is STILL taking the piss outta me for XD, it's ok though, all in good fun. The other team certainly showed us how to play properly ><. Next time yea Eddy? =) Special mention would probably go to Cham, for absolutely owning the game, and Jenny and Sarah, for scoring the funniest goal in the world XD
Upon arriving all sweaty and exhausted back to the picnic area, we decided to take a massive group shot. This being my favorite:
probably because most of us were smiling and looking at the camera. However...if you go download the full version of the OTHER shot that i put on my flickr slideshow player (just below) you'll find the funnier shot. Try and see why, (Eddy and Ken XD)
as a sidenote, you CAN download the full version of any photos on my flickr slideshow (the black thing down the bottom). Just click on the photo, view in new window, and when the photo appears, click on the 'all sizes' button to the top left of the photo. Voila!
Well, just as we thought our day was drawing to a close, nope, all of us decided to head off to Sharon and Eddy's parents' farm. PERSSIMON....PERSIMMON? farm! and it rocked. I love the soft perssimons (that's how we'll spell it for now XD). Here take a look!:
Look at all those fruits! Man that was awesome. We bought a tray, Collin bought a tray, i think every family bought a tray! XD they were SO nice. Fresh picked as well! i mean, just look:
So nice and ripe. mmmm, most of us couldn't wait to eat them
as you can no doubt tell.
After the farm, all of us decided to meet up the next day as well (because we obviously love each other so much n_n) SO that led to the carousel expedition...where two groups of us went, one to watch March of the Penguins and the other to watch Ice Age .... which started a whole argument about which was better (which, many of the ice-age guys are still arguing with me about) - (i, of course, was one of the more refined, watching the REAL thing ....March of the Penguins, and i'll just say, i didn't regret it. ALL of you go watch it at some point, YES YOU JENNY!! *prods*)
before i forget, Leon, you never replied to my SMS man =\ what happened there? didja forget to turn your phone on? You shoulda gone. Although you would have been one of the ice-age people, indefinitely >.> and Rob....well, your phone wasn't working so i depended on Leon to give you the message, but since he didnt reply.....i think you would have watched March of the Penguins as well. damnit. Next time.
And Tak man!! what happened, never reply to your MSN XD. Bugger it, next time we'll definitely get the WHOLE group going....that includes Josh too, i should really smash that guy for not going on Monday.
Oh well, at the end of the day i guess everybody was exhausted (yes, that was Sunday, Monday AND Tuesday) pwoa. Even i can feel the strain on me now. My legs are killing me, i'm still sorta sick (thank God i'm recovering) and yeah. but seriously. i dont think i'll be doing that for a while again, 3 days in a row just kills the immune system XD
As my dearest Cuz will no doubt tell you.
Fin~
p.s prayers extended to Leon, who's down with the flu, Eddy, Sharon for the same reason, and myself, ...for the same reason XD
p.s.s March of the Penguins RULES!! (sorry Jenny, cant hear you XP)
Where to start...ah Easter Sunday, i'll just say it was pretty ordinary for me, i mean sure the occassion was awesome and couldn't be any better acknowledged but.....well, i got sick that day =_=" and was in like 3 items so needless to say i wasn't too happy about that....still though, it was great, and the special mention goes to the choir, and all members of the choir who performed admirably. Well done all =) and of course the Young Adults, who put on a stunning show. Go you guys!
Now the BBQ.
It was at a place called Churchman's brooke dam, on the most perfect of days. The weather was nice and cool, sun was shining and there wasn't a cloud in sight. How i would pay if everyday were like that. But anyway,
Alot, and wait, i mean, alot of people turned up. Just in the youth i think there were at least 20, add another 20-30 parents or so and you end up with a grand total of approximately 50 people. Luckily the picnic area was nice and spacious, so we had lots of room to move around and mingle. The first thing that everybody did though, was go on a walk to explore the surrounding region and the actual dam itself.
After walking around the general picnic area and coming across errr..
i'll err....leave it to your imagination as to deciding what that is. David couldn't help commenting that it was a bucketful of turd though >.> (he might well be right though =\). Camwhoring was inevitable, and we grabbed some random groups of people to just take nice shots by the nice little brooke that was running through our area.
aww what a beautiful shot. Lovely group of girls they are, and then there was....
erm yes *cough cough*, moving on....
We walked up the narrow (slippery) steps to get a view of the dam from high up...my my we weren't dissapointed. Take a look for yourself, i dont think my pictures do proper justice to the actual scene (put in a fresh breeze and the gentle warming heat of the sun sitting in a cloudless aquamarine sky and voila!)
i actually purposely took the ugly banks to show what our government means by 'low-level' and let me tell you, for once, the government aint pulling your leg. The leves are (well, at least in this dam) extremely low. So people, people, as honest citizens interested in the welfare of our state (and perhaps our future) i urge you to think about this picture.....and how much nicer it would have been if the water levels were up. CONSERVE water please!!!!! ok, that's my government propaganda issue for the day.
There we go, sorry i was taking it with one hand, that's why the tilt is a bit off XD but that's a better (still bad though) shot of the pristine waters that comprise churchman's brooke dam. Love how there are trees and everything in the shot....sky looks lovely as well, but we digress.
Whilst we were up there, we made full use of the view to take some senseless shots, this particular one influenced by Tak:
and i'm not sure what we were meant to do but it was good nonetheless....yeah thanks a heap Ken =_='
Oh well, whilst walking along there, i look just in time to see David kick my soccer ball down the side of the dam XXXXXXXXXDDDDDDDDDDDD good work there XD. FORTUNATELY, it was the side where there was no water, just like a rocky slope, and we had to talk him into climbing UP it, not rolling DOWN it, justified by the fact that if he tried the latter, he probably wouldn't have been in the shots we took later XD.
So as we were walking down, we noticed that they labeled the toilets "Adam" for male, and "Eve" for female. Implying in a sense that the Garden of Eden could be compared to Churchman's Brooke. Could i just blatantly say now...err Churchman's brooke is lovely, but um, no. just ..... no. Anyway i noticed that Adam had some....extra anatomical features added on to him. if you take my meaning. I wont go there though ~_~
So there we are walking down and when we reach the bottom, we hear somebody yelling out from the top, upwards we lift our eyes and lo and behold:
We remember we left David up there, since he went up to collect the ball XD. There he is (on the right) with Leonie. sorry dude XD
After coming down, our whole group ate lunch, and ran to the field to play a game of 'captain ball'. Obviously i'm not going to elaborate on how to play the game here, but it was good fun. We won the first half 9-6. Then the second half, Cham came and we got owned 20-16. Which Sharon is STILL taking the piss outta me for XD, it's ok though, all in good fun. The other team certainly showed us how to play properly ><. Next time yea Eddy? =) Special mention would probably go to Cham, for absolutely owning the game, and Jenny and Sarah, for scoring the funniest goal in the world XD
Upon arriving all sweaty and exhausted back to the picnic area, we decided to take a massive group shot. This being my favorite:
probably because most of us were smiling and looking at the camera. However...if you go download the full version of the OTHER shot that i put on my flickr slideshow player (just below) you'll find the funnier shot. Try and see why, (Eddy and Ken XD)
as a sidenote, you CAN download the full version of any photos on my flickr slideshow (the black thing down the bottom). Just click on the photo, view in new window, and when the photo appears, click on the 'all sizes' button to the top left of the photo. Voila!
Well, just as we thought our day was drawing to a close, nope, all of us decided to head off to Sharon and Eddy's parents' farm. PERSSIMON....PERSIMMON? farm! and it rocked. I love the soft perssimons (that's how we'll spell it for now XD). Here take a look!:
Look at all those fruits! Man that was awesome. We bought a tray, Collin bought a tray, i think every family bought a tray! XD they were SO nice. Fresh picked as well! i mean, just look:
So nice and ripe. mmmm, most of us couldn't wait to eat them
as you can no doubt tell.
After the farm, all of us decided to meet up the next day as well (because we obviously love each other so much n_n) SO that led to the carousel expedition...where two groups of us went, one to watch March of the Penguins and the other to watch Ice Age .... which started a whole argument about which was better (which, many of the ice-age guys are still arguing with me about) - (i, of course, was one of the more refined, watching the REAL thing ....March of the Penguins, and i'll just say, i didn't regret it. ALL of you go watch it at some point, YES YOU JENNY!! *prods*)
before i forget, Leon, you never replied to my SMS man =\ what happened there? didja forget to turn your phone on? You shoulda gone. Although you would have been one of the ice-age people, indefinitely >.> and Rob....well, your phone wasn't working so i depended on Leon to give you the message, but since he didnt reply.....i think you would have watched March of the Penguins as well. damnit. Next time.
And Tak man!! what happened, never reply to your MSN XD. Bugger it, next time we'll definitely get the WHOLE group going....that includes Josh too, i should really smash that guy for not going on Monday.
Oh well, at the end of the day i guess everybody was exhausted (yes, that was Sunday, Monday AND Tuesday) pwoa. Even i can feel the strain on me now. My legs are killing me, i'm still sorta sick (thank God i'm recovering) and yeah. but seriously. i dont think i'll be doing that for a while again, 3 days in a row just kills the immune system XD
As my dearest Cuz will no doubt tell you.
Fin~
p.s prayers extended to Leon, who's down with the flu, Eddy, Sharon for the same reason, and myself, ...for the same reason XD
p.s.s March of the Penguins RULES!! (sorry Jenny, cant hear you XP)