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Trailing the 'Wild Hogs' in the Nanna Car

                                                                                  Last weekend, Ravi, Captain Booger Features & I joined Tung, Sylvia, Joss & Simon for a weekend away in The Blue Mountains.  David joined us for the trip there but headed back to Sydney at noon.  The big boys rode their motorbikes while Sylvia, the little boys & I followed them in my car dubbed the 'nanna' car.  It was a great weekend away but we all vowed next time we'd take more days off (2 just ain't enough!).  Highlights of the trip (in no particular order) were:

• Seeing the big boys zoom past us on their motorbikes (not speeding, my arse!) but then encountering them further along the highway parked by the road chatting to each other!
• David cutting me off on the road!
• Ravi making the whole trip there & back without incident (& looking hot!) despite not having much practice time on the bike before the trip
• Still getting lost despite knowing the name & address of the cabin we were staying in
• Toasting marshmallows with Captain Booger Features
• Electric blankets!
• Giving my 'loser' mojo to Simon, thereby winning my first ever series of Pizza (card game I usually come last in)
• Simon taking us on a dirt road to Pilcher Point - Tung losing his license plate & Ravi losing a piece from his handlebar along the way (Simon trying to help by offering a car license plate to Tung which he found on the side of the road)
• Breathtaking views of the Blue Mountains & the 3 Sisters
• Taking the Skyway cable car & seeing the bushland & waterfalls through the glass bottom
• Ravi spotting an original Grimms' fairytale book (complete with gruesome fairytales before they were Disneyfied)
• Joss sensing danger & urging us to head back after encountering a herd of people walking towards us from the direction we were heading (Joss demonstrating his survival skills if he were to ever go on safari!)
• Captain Booger Features touching an object in the Skyway gift shop & having it spontaneously combust in his hands (blue goo splashing on his hands, sweater & jeans! - What on earth was it??)
• Sylvia & I cooking the mother of all breakfasts (after the big boys cooked us the mother of all dinners)

Pictures can be viewed in the "Blue Mountains July 2007" album

Is there normally a blackout in November?

                                                                              Birthdays, birthdays everywhere!  First cab off the rank was 'CSI' Matt (pictured above ecstatically opening our present to him - a red handbag with tassels!  A tranformers Wii game inside).  Then it was mine.  Ravi organised a dinner at Port Orient in Darling Harbour.  Strange entertainment (couldn't tell if the jazz singer was a man or a woman) but the company was fun (thanks to all for coming).  The fun didn't end there.  Thuy came over for dinner Sunday night & brought presents & cake (along with much-needed ego-bursting banter for Ravi who can get a big head at times).  Then Lily took us to Love Supreme (pizzeria in Paddington) where the food was superb!  Then it was Ravi's birthday & Sylvia's birthday (same day).  I treated Ravi to breakfast in bed (pictured, but after I had spilled his coffee - nuts!) as well as accessories for his early mid-life crisis-I mean, his motorbike.  For Ravi's & Sylvia's birthday, we dined at the Swiss Hotel in town during Swiss Food Festival night.  We pigged out on traditional Swiss dishes - but the desserts were to die for!  Pictures can be viewed in the "July/August 2007 birthdays" album.  I have a feeling 32 is going to be an extra-special year for me.  I can feel it in my bones....