So there I was all bright-eyed and eager, waiting for Cowboy BeBop tonight, cos I missed it on the weekend, and then housemate comes in and asks me what I'm waiting for. I tell him, he frowns and says: 'today's tuesday..."
D'oh! In my eagerness to ogle Gren again I was a day early.

Almost finished my next AC chapter...

My weekend away was triffic fun, caught up with lots of friends. The Retreat is a beautiful old sprawling house, and the grounds are lovely. There's a large lake with a couple of islands in the middle of it and *counting* 6, I think bridges too and fro. There was about another 6 bridges crossing the little creek that ran through the property and I crossed every one at least 3 times. : ) I like bridges, almost as much as I like trains...
The grounds were also littered with ponds (mostly empty unfortunately, due to water restrictions) and a goodly number of peaceful places to sit in quiet contemplation. Wonderful.
My favourite place though was a 'cathedral' formed from 5 oak trees over one of the bridges. The branches inside the circle had been pruned leaving a light, open space covered by a leafy canopy about 40 feet above. Just beautiful... *sigh*
On saturday we went to have a Picnic at Hanging Rock. Well, a barbeque actually, then some of us stayed behind to play badmington while the rest climbed the rock.
I got half-way up; it's very steep.
The rock itself is the remains of a lava 'plug' in a long gone volcano. There's a cool, peacefulness about it, very comforting and blanketing without being smothering. I'll get to the top next time, I'm sure.
Over the weekend I also learnt to play mah jong, sort of, and participated in a 2 player game of monopoly, which was odd but fun. Except... the basic principle of the game offends my little socialist heart; the woman I was playing with wasn't doing as well as I was and I could've easily forced her into bankruptcy by buying houses for my properties (I owned the 3 most expensive blocks) but I just couldn't do it... My monopoly partner and I decided that next time there's one of these weekends, we'll bring along some games that don't rely on trampling over the other players to win, like Pass the Pigs, that's a good one...
We had to leave on sunday after lunch, unfortunately, everyone had just got into their holiday groove and another day would have been perfect.
My only criticism of the weekend would've been that with the place only being just over an hour away from home, it wasn't like a real road trip to get there... : )
Thank you, Alarice, for organising it all! *bigHUG*

Oh, and today is Soulsis's birthday... hippo birdie two ewes, sweetie!