Well, what a weekend! It all started Wednesday night. From work Jesse, Andrew and I all drove up to Gretel's house in Renmark to begin our long weekend.
On Thursday we celebrated Australia Day. It was a fabulous day spent drinking, chatting, eating BBQ and spending time with friends - old and newly met on the day. Even though the temperature was in the mid-high 30's we thought it sacrilegious to go inside on Australia Day. More people had arrived by dinner time, and our head count was up to 10. After the sun went down we went for a walk to the river. It was still very warm.
Friday was spent relaxing. We did a little shopping in the morning after breakfast, then had lunch. The afternoon was mostly spent reading, watching movies and chatting. Our head count rose to 13, and for dinner we went to the Renmark Hotel. Dinner was OK, though the kitchen managed to mess up our orders and only half the meals came out at a time, with a 15 minute difference before the other half. Once everyone had finished eating we jumped in the cars and rushed out to the Paringa lookout where we caught the last 2 minutes of the sunset and watched the storm come in. It was an amazing sight.
On Saturday by the time everyone had gone through the shower and had breakfast it was about 10.30am. A few people went for a walk down at the river. I opted to stay home and read - it was still hot outside! While they were out I did the breakfast dishes and made lunch - burritos! After lunch we split up again. A group of people went to Lake Bonnie swimming and I went with Jesse, Gretel and Andrew ten-pin bowling. I won both games, but it was a very close competition. Our numbers diminished that night with a few people heading home. Movies, board and card games were played that night.
It rained last night, and it was cloudy and wet this morning. We churched in Paringa, we're almost becoming regulars with the amount of times we go there! A few of us left straight from church, and we were down to 5 for lunch. We were all on our way home by 2pm.
It was a great weekend. Oh, and happy birthday Collie.
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