All aboard the failboat in Canberra

[katiefoolery]

First, before I get to the true point of this post, I would like to glare meaningfully at Vista.

*does so*

I do not like its overwhelming need to cache fail. Yes, you did decide to take away my wireless internet access for five minutes (for no good reason, I'd like to add). Yes, I was logged into msn at the time. But hey, the internet came back, so you can stop living in the past and LET ME LOG BACK IN.

Now that this unpleasantness is behind us, let's move on.

As promised, I abandoned the world of the internet for Canberra from the twenty-ninth of December until the fourth of January. 'Twas splendid. I met rigel_7 and emerald85 at Melbourne airport at an insanely early hour of the morning. After very little sleep, I might add. The bad thing about constantly staying up 'til one and two am is that it can be difficult to feel sleepy at midnight... even when you know you should really get more than five hours' sleep before going away.

And we were away on a jet plane to Canberra, where we were met by Dr. crazedturkey and got to play tetris with our luggage and her car boot again. Splendid fun! We headed off to ambush flippyfrog at her work and then meet the_kaytinator and bathmat for pancakes at Pancake Parlour. To which restaurant we are apparently not to return, according to the good bathmat. And rightly so, too, considering they simultaneously put up their prices and reduced their serving sizes.

But huzzah, for the LorFers were together again for the first time in a year! Much fun was had, along with many card games and so much cheating. So very much. You'd think flippyfrog would learn, but no. We could deal her as many cards as we liked for uno and she would never count them.

Flit: *fanning out cards* How many cards are we meant to have?
Me: *looking completely innocent, despite having dealt at least eleven cards to the Flitness* How many do you have?
Rigel: *attempting to stifle laughter*

Later...

Flit: *fans out eleven cards again, completely oblivious*

We quickly learnt never to leave the room whilst cards were being dealt, lest you end up with all of your good cards mysterioulsy kidnapped, leaving you with a hand full of rubbish.

Here, have some photographic proof that I was in Canberra:

That would be me in the bright pink, for some reason. I'm well and truly over my pink phase... and yet I'm still wearing the cursed colour. Only the one time, I swear!

(There's a rigel_7 in black next to me and in the front are emerald85, the_kaytinator, bathmat and flippfrog.)

ETA: Further proof! This one comes with a bonus parliament house in the background, just to prove it really was Canberra.

emerald85, flippyfrog, me, the_kaytinator, rigel_7, crazedturkey and bathmat

Many of us boarded the failboat in Canberra. Barely ten minutes would go by without a chorus of "FAILBOAT!" being directed at an unfortunate one of us. Often accompanied by singing. Actually, a great deal of things are accompanied by singing when we're together.

The main reason we were there was for the new years eve party, of course, since flippyfrog and emerald85 are insisting on leaving us in the belief that Europe will be more interesting than hanging around here. Poor, deluded ones. And the good crazedturkey is off to be a doctor in the middle of nowhere on top of that... so we had to say goodbye to them. It was a splendid party, accompanied by sneezing dogs and lots of beetles.

Random scene:
All: Waaah, it's only ten o' clock!
All LorFers except the good doctor: *dance like loons*
Em: *squishes a beetle while in bare feet*
All: *continue to dance like loons... whilst keeping a look-out for beetles*
Five minutes: *pass*
Time: *is now half past eleven*
Me: Well that went too quickly.

And the seven days went just as quickly. It seemed like we'd only just arrived and all of a sudden we were packing up and rigel_7 was kneeling bodily on her suitcase to squish it shut again. Fun was had by all, many museums and interesting places were visited and far too much time was spent crawling in and out of crazedturkey's adorable little car. You couldn't ask for more, really.

Comments

[vicky-v.livejournal.com]

Very little sleep is apparently part of the package of the fun that is air travel. It's one of those unwritten laws.

Glad you had a fabulous time. You got to ride an actual failboat. I'm so jealous.

(Knew that was you in the pink. I'm not sure how, I'm really not).

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

It would help if planes didn't leave at daft times, that's for sure. And the queues! Everyone was travelling on the 29th, or so it seemed.

We seemed to spend most of the time on the failboat. Most of us are permanent members of the crew now. :D And I'm glad to know that I seem to exude a sense of myself through photos. I think. It's a good thing, right?

[rigel-7.livejournal.com]

I maintain that my suitcase is like a TARDIS

*shoves moar stuff in*

Heee!

Also, you forgot the awesome stacked deck of wild cards with which to torture Aimee.

Ahhhh the good ol' pick up 10 cards routine...

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

Oh, dammit, I meant to add something in there.

Rigel: *shamelessly stacks deck*
Em: *is forced to pick up twenty cards*

So much fun.

And that suitcase is a TARDIS. There's nothing else that can explain how you fitted seven days' worth of clothing and necessities into something roughly the size of a shoebox.

[emerald85.livejournal.com]

Evil! Evil I tells ya!

*has nightmares over having to pick up huge amounts of uno cards*

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

Em! I thought we'd blocked you... Uh... I mean...

You'll miss us when you're gone. :D

[the-wanlorn.livejournal.com]

That sounds like a terrible amount of fun!

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

I wish I could be bothered downgrading to XP, but the thought of hunting down all of the drivers I'd need is incredibly unappealing.

It really was a lot of fun! I wish we all could have stayed for much, much longer.

[wldhrsjen3.livejournal.com]

That sounds like so much fun! What a great way to celebrate the end of one year and the start of another! :D

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

It really was. I'm becoming quite fond of celebrating the new year this way. :D

[naelany.livejournal.com]

*chuckles* Glad you ladies had such a good time ^_^. Even gladder you're back ^_~

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

Aww, thanks. :D It's good to be back although it's still sad to think it'll be at least two years before all seven of us will be together again.

[naelany.livejournal.com]

Two years? Aww that sucks.... *hugs*

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

Yep. Two of them'll be off having the time of their lives in Europe and we'll be stuck back here, moping. I'm sure it'll go quickly enough, though.

[naelany.livejournal.com]

somehow I doubt you'll be moping a whole lot ^_~