The Booragoon two
Trip Start
Feb 14, 2007
1
59
68
Trip End
Ongoing
Perth, Australia
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
********** Part 2 *********
It took a while for us to settle back into reality having to get up for work, going to meetings about shorts and skirts, fathoming staff rotas for over 100 people and deciding which funky item of surf wear to buy next. Well that was Chris's day in a nutshell as he secured himself a job as deputy manager at the biggest surf store in Australia..
Ange and her cake
. man. This job certainly appeared to have its upsides, he could go to work looking like Ashton Kutcher, sweeet....dude...sweet, befriended the live DJ who played every Friday, got to work with young girls in very short skirts and lots of fluro colours. So much so that I would not be surprised if someone in white goves smelling of vicks walked out of the changing rooms one day shouting "accciiiiiiiiid"with that quizical Quantum Leap expression on his face, oh boy. yes it is possible to mistake this grand old building for an old school acid house rave warehouse, and there is certianly enough fluro clothing and day glo tut around to make you think you had travelled back in time to 1990.I remained unemployed for a while longer until a travel agent job came up. Now this was not one of my brightest ideas but this is the perfect environment in which to try new things. However 2 weeks later feeling like Rainman having memorised every world wide airport and city code and tired from relaying the fact that the "computer says no" it was enough to make me realise it was time to go back to unemployment. Days later however I was Odd Job Jen picking up work packing sandals, waitressing VIP tables at a boxing match ...aaddrrriiieeeennn, hosting corporate dinners at the cricket ground...hhoowzzaaat, and dabbling in a spot of secretarial work on the side.
Amongst all this hard work we also managed to have some fun , I know I know that sounds very unlike us but we did try. We squeezed in a torchlight tour of Freemantle Prison with the big brother boys, Anna, Tracy, Luke and Jason from Darwin as well as Felix and Jordie, most excellent if not a little bit cheesy. Don't mention that to Tracy though as this is the girl who accompanied only by a small torch in the darkness of a spooky prison screamed and hit the deck upon thinking a deadbody was going to land on her head from the railings above
Ange dancing away
. Tracy Tracy, it's just a puppet and a very bad actor up there now get up off the floor and stop crying :)We also had the pleasure of the red bull air race visiting Perth, however this became somewhat uninteresting after Jordie had a wee next to Justin Timberlake in a Northbridge pub and the story dominated every conversation for at least 3 weeks afterwards.
We had a charming dinner one evening, watching the sunset over the Swan River on the 33rd floor of the rotating restaurant (which we only noticed was in motion moments before Chris wanted to demand a table by the window so he could see the view). It was a little confusing after a few sherberts to find that your table was no longer where you left it and slighly daunting if not hilarious to think that if you didnt pay attention after powdering your nose you might find yourself sat at the wrong table with the wrong people!
Chris's work had a fancy dress xmas party hence the photos, unsuprisingly Chris dressed as scooby doo confused the real dogs and i definately crushed a few ribs in that wonder woman outfit.
As mentioned above we moved into a new house, belonging to a couple we had met in Darwin, hurrah for them as they are great, their house is lovely, their dogs are hilarious, their pool is excellent and Ange's 30th was as any 30th should be, crazy outfits, dancing until 6am a spit roasted pig (and i dont just mean some fat ugly minger who was too drunk to say no) and a hired hot tub (that we can confirm does fit more than 12 people in at one time). I cant wait until I am 30 (again).
