Unexpectedly tiring but fantastic weekend!

Last weekend was great! But quite busy! So the post might be a little long…

Colombian Lunch

On Saturday, Liz invited a couple of people to have lunch with a Colombian family in the south of Sydney. As the network worked, soon we were 16 people, from 11 different countries, confirmed to such a fantastic program!

We arrived there around 1:30p.m. And it was just great! Apparently all the family is living is Australia for the last years (I think at least 7 people) and we can feel Colombia in all moments, seeing the objects, looking at people faces, listening to the music and especially feeling the Latin American warmth.

The food was amazing! I had a big Bandeja costena (fish, coconut rice, fried platanos and salad) and lulo juice! No words…

After eating, singing and dancing. It’s hard to describe how much I enjoyed the environment, especially to feel the Latin receptive spirit around. Si, si, Colombia!





Foosball

In order to continue enjoying the great company, he headed to Jhow’s new house, which was quite close. There were some good conversation and bad films going on, but the funniest part was to play foosball (pebolin – the “soccer table” – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foosball). We literally played for hours! And the only team who never lost was… the Brazilians! Oh yeah, Jhow and I are accepting challenging rivals.


Movie Marathon

When we were in the bus to go home (11p.m. already), Sid was thanking Anna for insisting on leaving, which meant we would sleep comfortably in our beds and not in Jhow's floor after some more hours of foosball. Then I sais that I actually liked those sorts of stories, because they were the ones we'd remember afterwards. Sid, then, looked at me and said: by the way, what are you doing tonight?

As he just came back from China with 29 new DVDs, the 5 of us decided to go to his place and watch a couple of them. In the end, we watched 3 movies, until 8 in the morning!


Coffee

After the marathon, a little bit of sleep and we woke up about 10. Completely tired, we decided to go home, but before we stopped in the city for a coffee. Not only the coffee was great, but the conversations, inspired in some of the films we just watched, especially "The interpreter". We talked about how people face unfair situations, the economy in Norway and even how the brilliant people from Atlantis didn't use all their knowledge to survive. As you see, we were extremely inspired!


Seven Bridges Walk

At this point, it was already 1p.m. and the girls decided to go home. Martin and I, taking advantage of the sun and the rest of our energy, preferred to go for the Seven Bridges Walk (http://www.7bridgeswalk.com.au/).

The event was created to promote a heatlhy life style in the beautiful city of Sydney, while you help some social projects. This means that you walk 22 km, passing through 7 bridges and once in a while there is a check point, with sunscreen, water and voluntary toll box. There are quite a lot of volunteers working, many sponsors and around 7.000 walking.

I think I don't need to say I was completely dead in the end. But it was completely worthed. Greatest sleep ever after the intense weekend!