Ted's Christmas Party!

The festivities have started in Kuwait! Ted, our local brewer recently threw a little Christmass party before he heads back to Australia for Christmas. All the gang was there, except for Sherry and Steve who thought it would be more fun to move to Russia! Was a crazy night, lots of drinking, dancing, drunken gymnastics and lots and lots of laughs. The photos are below!

Every thing is going pretty good here in Kuwait. Have meet some new and interesting people of late so its keeping things a little more exciting. But generally its all work and not much play :( I hope everyone at home is doing well and getting ready for chrissy. Miss you all so much at this time of year. So please send me some emails love to hear whats going on...take care and stay cool xoxo

Look out The Little Gym Girls are here!!!

Bet you Maria is not understanding a word haha but she looks interested.

Cheese....

Maria? What did you say to make Wayne so Grumpy...oh hang on he's always grumpy hahaha

Yay its Christmas in Kuwait!

No you two, your not going home until Maria has had six sambuca shots and I have spun Vicky around on the floor!

The Swedish Elf

Mark's happy he's got the girls...what more could he ask for?

Hahahhahaha - that's all I can say about that picture...

Santa's naughty little elves

The Russians are coming, The Russians are coming

My stunned mullet look!

Loz how many drink you got in your hand there??

The Menu at Ted's Bar!

Me and my snuggly bar man!!

Merry Christmas Girls!

Maria and I shaking it up on the dance floor...

Ta Da!

Yup this is how we all felt at the end of the night!

A week of body abuse

I just don't know what the story is with this week and my poor old body...okay most of my aches and pains are self inflicted but still why do things have to happen all in the same week? Let's begin with the end of last week, as that's really where the abuse started...

After a steady night of tequila shots..(yes my favorite) my body was a little slow Friday, I was not up for much and for some reason my legs ached like there was no tomorrow...don't know why am still yet to work that one out. Right so move on to Saturday, (keep in mind the legs still a little shaky) the nature of my job requires me to do some pretty silly things and the best way to get these silly things right is trial and error! So I get on the bar (the uneven bars not the sit and drink at bar....although have hurt my self a few times at one of those as well!) so back to the bar... I try to do this new thing called a single leg circle..WHACK! Slam the front of my mother fucking thigh on the bar as hard as I possible could. Swear my ass off then go ok let's try again....WHACK! This time it's the back of my leg which means two things, I am getting closer to getting it right but also it's still all wrong and now I got a matching bruise on the back of my leg. Any way this went on for a little awhile until my legs were covered in bruises and finally Maria gave me a spot and I managed to do the fucking thing.

So I bruised my legs big deal I hear you say...right next thing I decided that since I drank to much on the weekend I thought I might kill my self in the pool. Now I actually like exercise and that silly feeling you get when you just drill your self so the training part wasn't so bad, actually I think I reached such a high lactic acid level that I was in fits of giggles...trust me it was funny. However the next day it was so not funny...Awe my legs felt like lead! On top of all the bruises my legs we like trying to move kegs of Guinness ...mmm Guinness....sorry back to the aches...I forced my way through cartwheels and handstands and all the other nonsense I have to do.
However get to the part where I am teaching that crazy bloody move on the uneven bars and when WHACK! This 5 year old kid slams his elbow into my jaw, now this is not just a gentle tap it was like receiving an upper cut from a fully grown man (okay I don't really know what an upper cut from a fully grown man feels like lucky enough not to but still it hurt!) :( But then wait... I actually bite my tongue to hold back swearing at the little shit! I mean poor little darling!

So my legs are bruised, full of lactic acid and my mouth hurts. But wait there is more....So today feeling a little better I decided to try a few more harder exercises on the bar again...LOL WHACK same result..I am actually pretty good at my job hahaha just takes a lot of practice. But this afternoon I was feeling okay and I thought I would walk on my hands from one end of the red mat to the other.

Now the red mat is not small and it's a bit of a way and I did it with my legs straight...woohooo was quite excited as it was the first time I had controlled my body to stay so straight...until some one yells out that my shirt has fallen and I am showing my back...god, low and behold someone shows some flesh in this country. So then I lose it and go WHACK straight down on my back and wind the crap out of my self! Although I did stand up and pretend that I was fine hahahaha since the kids were watching and I had to do a happy dance because I walked so far :) But now my upper back is all out and I really need some little Thai lady to come walk on it!
Now the scary thing is I still have 3 more days of flipping around that bloody bar! HELP! I am yet to break a bone in my body and after doing lots of crazy things, but I have a feeling that this week I could be looking down the barrel of a hospital visit.

On the flip side I did manage to score a manicure and pedicure for 3kd so I guess it's not all bad! Just the nature of the job I guess and to be honest it's pretty bloody funny how many times I smacked my legs on the bar.

Drinking in Dubai!

Well the heading is a bit deceiving it wasn't all drinking in Dubai. Kerrie my sister was stopping over on her way back to Australia after spending 2 fabulous years in France. So I had to take a trip down there to catch up with her since it had been over 12 months since we had seen each other. We both arrived late on Wednesday night and then after stocking up at Duty free headed to the Hotel. Unfortunately it is the holy month of Ramadan at the moment so we couldn't eat and drink in public but we did enough of that at the hotel :) Kerrie had never been to a Middle Eastern country before so it was really good to be able to show her the crazy world I have been living in. Although Dubai isn't really as crazy as Kuwait she still got to experience and see some of the differences we have here. Thursday we took a drive around and checked out the place. Visited some popular resorts and the gold market. It was great to just catch up and be a bit silly together just like normal....

Now the drinking part okay.....We kind of stocked up a little to much so when Kerrie left on Friday morning I still had some time in Dubai on my own....What is one to do but to drink the left overs so a bottle of gin later I was a mess hahahaha. Don't think I have ever drunk that much on my own before didn't know I could be so amusing HAHAHAHA.

Any way the pics from our little catch up in Dubai are below and no I wasn't really drunk in the end ones I was just messing about however thats pretty much how I looked Friday hahahahaha......

You can't come to the Middle East and not take a photo of a mosque

Dubai, big buildings, palm trees and sun :)

An Ali Sunset

Huh you want me to sober up pfft!

A 7 star hotel yes 7 ! Dunno what you get for that but it better be good!

Kezz on Snow Patrol!

A bit of Arabic architecture

Sun set at one of the resorts in Dubai

Right so the light comes on when?

Out side the Gold Market

I don't know which is shinier the gold or Kezz's head :)

The gold Souq

Down an ally of the Gold Souq (Kerrie is that your future husband?)

A cheap Sharwama shop (Sharwama is kind of like a kebab)

Kerrie was impressed with the Arabic Fashions LOL

The little boat that gets you across the creek

A view across the creek

mmmm does that Arab man want to trade his camel for Ali?

Kerrie liked the look of this sign don't ask me why, but she took a photo of it!

A local restaurant

Naif Souq (souq means market)

The busy streets of Dubai and a little Indian guy pulling his cart!

Wow look at all this alcohol

Preempting what would happen the next day

Oh life is good when you got some vodka :)

BBQ'S, FOOTBALL & A BLOODY GOOD TIME!

The photos below are from a BBQ we had for Sherry, our dear friend who has scored a job in Moscow. The gang all got together at Vicky and Wayne's (also known as warba). Steve and Sherry are both off to Russia and leaving the rest of us behind in Kuwait, so we had to have a true Aussie BBQ for them to make them realise all the fun they will be missing. :)

Life is not so bad when you have a pool, blue sky, lots to drink and great company! :)

The start of a great afternoon!

Cheers KBR, thanks for the coolers!

Leanna and Loz

Cheers!

All the chicks in the pool!

Do you think we could make the cover of FHM?

The cameramen taking a photo of themselves..Hehehehe silly buggers :)

"....and it was this big, you know, so I said, lets just put another keg on and see what happens!"

Mark and Cobbs happy with the beer and sun :)
The Boys doing a great job on the Barbie

Vicky, Wayne and Ted say Hi!

Zander, Colin and Me letting it all hang out!

Crocodile Loz!

Sherry going in to give Steve a big wet one :)

CHAMP!

Vicky, Loz, Mads, Sherry, Ali and Mark stumbling around behind us at the end of the night :)

Australia vs Kuwait in the Soccer at the beginning of the month....we lost it was pathetic but it was a good time and the Aussies all came out to yell their best Oi, Oi, Oi's

Aussie Aussie Aussie, Wayne, Cobbs and Cat.

Mads, Mark, Cobbs and Cat.

Loz, me and Caterina

Laurel's Boxing Kangaroo pose.

Just a few Aussies watching the match, the box below is the Aussie players box, which got hit with water bottles at the end of the game....by the Kuwaitis not the Aussies. HA we lose and still cop a beating from the idiots!

Aussies playing very poorly!

The game in action. Check out all the white sheets on the other side of the filed, haha!

Mads, Me and Loz Aussing it up for the Socceroos!

The photos below are from another gathering we had at Warba a few weeks back, bit of beach cricket, drinks by the pool and a BBQ what more could you ask for?

"Lick my what?"

Wayne, Chris, Ted and Loz relaxing in the pool.

The gang hoeing into the pork ribs :) Beach Cricket makes you hungry