Leah’s Day

Sunday, December 6^th, 2009

Yesterday I woke up at the crack as usual, so I went for a long run. Well, a long run for me. I think Todd has mentioned it before, but one of the main bike/pedestrian paths runs along the river, very beautiful. It’s about a half mile from our studio, so I bopped on it and ran along the river for about an hour. Pretty much if I don’t get a run in first thing in the morn it’s not going to happen with heat.

When I got home Todd was just waking up. We decided that our day plan was going to consist of taking the Shornecliffe train to the bay to explore. It’s different area of the beach that we haven’t explored yet. Also, to get to this part of the beach is less of a train ride then the Gold Coast or the Sunshine Coast, so we thought we’d give it a go. Our neighbor, Melissa told us about beautiful bike paths along the beach area, so we decided to attempt to take our bikes on the train (haven’t pulled that one yet).

We got to the train station and were waiting for a while at the station when they announced that they were having technical difficulties with the train and that it wouldn’t be coming for another 45 minutes. Since we sort of had a late start with deciding on a day plan we decided to scrap the Shornecliffe day plan and just hopped on our bikes.

We rode our bikes on the path along the river once again to an area of town called Kangaroo Point. Kangaroo Point sort of juts out and is known for its cliffs. Sure, enough we saw these huge red cliffs where people were rock climbing everywhere. Very cool! There is also an outfitter where you can rent kayaks, canoes, and other water sports stuff to play with on the river.

Todd and I parked our bikes and opted to the stairs to the top of the point. Too bad we don’t own harnesses and rope so that we could of shimmy’ed up the sides like everyone else. The top of the point has an amazing lookout spot of the city, gorgeous.

It was about 1pm at this point, so we rode our bikes towards home and stopped at Southbank. The place with the beach, shops, and restaurants. We had bite for lunch and lay at the pool/beach area for awhile.

As we headed home we only had one thought on our mind…VINO AND BEER! We popped into the grocery and bought some items for din-din. Todd bought a case of Stella for $40 yikes, while I got a bottle of white for about $8. (Stella was actually the best deal. I could have gotten 48 MGDs for $80, but I couldn’t carry it on the bike.–tg)  Todd really should think about becoming a wino with those prices.

We immediately cracked open the alchy and took our ipod/speakers (Thanks Ross) outside. Since we don’t have chairs or a table mind you we just sat in the grass cross legged blasting music and drinking our recently purchased refreshments.

After about an hour, we bailed on cooking our gourmet dinner in our hoopty skillet and called Dominos. Oh yes, they do have Dominos here and It’s just as nasty as it is in the states. At this point Todd and I have pretty much chatted about every subject you could possible chat about. Hey, 24/7 attached at the hip for almost a month. So, we did what every normal couple would do in this scenario, we played “M.A.S.H.”  If you don’t know what M.A.S.H is just ask your local middle school girl. Just so you know when Todd grows up he will be living in an apartment, have 2 kids, Eowyn & Darwin, married to Selma Hayek, is an actor, lives in Brisbane, and has a second home in Tahiti. After our riveting game of M.A.S.H, we had a dance party by ourselves. Thank god the pizza arrived, otherwise who knows what sort of games we would have succumbed to playing.

After din we watched the boob tube, for a while and fell asleep just short of 9:30, do we know how to have fun or what? Mission vino? Check.  Beer? Check. Still making it to bed an ungodly early hour on a Saturday night? Check & check.

Needless to say we both woke up at about 5am this morning. Today we biked our patoots to campus.  It’s really hot today, so I went to the pool for a bit, while Todd made out with the internet.

Then, lucky us the Denver Crew xmas party skyped us! We had this Skype date set (thanks for organizing April) for about three weeks and we were really excited about it.  It really made our day, so fun to see everyone. It really made us feel like we were part of the excitement even though we’re on the other side of the globe. Now, were back at home blasting the Air Con and getting ready for some dinner.

Some observations for today:

-Swimming on the other side of lane is really strange…my backstroke was wavering all over the place

-We’ve decided that Todd’s weight loss is due to lack of drinking.