Barrack

I spent Friday at work calling people all day. We're still working our way through the brigade captains. It's taking us much longer than we had anticipated. James and John spoke to us briefly about the possibility of hiring some temps to make phone calls for us. That would cut our work load in half and hasten the project quite a bit. Hopefully this actually happens. I wonder if I'll have to teach them to ride a bike like Ben's temp.

When I got home everyone else was already getting ready to go out. Steve had a list of clubs that he had been given by his surfing instructor last week. We picked one that was close by and decided to check it out. It was called CQ. We left early and got there around 9:30. There was already a very long line. We waited for about 20 minutes when a limo pulled up to the club. Two huge body guards stepped out followed by none other than Dennis Rodman. Yes, Dennis with the crazy hair and 50 piercings; part of the Chicago Bulls dynasty in the 90's. He was escourted swiftly into the club. I was able to snap some pictures though. We got in about 15 minutes after that. This place was absolutely packed. However I think we hit the wrong type of crowd. Most of the people there were wear clothes way more expensive than ours and were about 5-10 years older than us. We were in the young buisness crowd. But there was good music and there were about 8 of us so we decided to stay and enjoy ourselves. While we were hanging out we saw Dennis Rodman leaving the club. He was walking through the dance floor normally and then Flo Rida came on and he threw up his arms and shouted and then just started dancing. It was hilarious. We went home around 1 am. It was a great time.

We woke up Saturday morning and went to the market to shop for souveniors. I didn't buy much but the market has just about everything you could possibly want and at really reasonable prices. I'll definately have to stop there again and stock up on souveniors before I leave. I had a sweet chilli chicken roll for brunch and on the way back I noticed a fishing shop and stopped in for some tackle and some info. I grabbed some hooks and sinkers and a free size and regulations book. Red snapper is the main fish around here. I have some small poles that the front desk had laying around, I'll have to give it a try sometime. Spent the rest of the day relaxing/cleaning and watching footy and Uncle Buck on TV.

After dinner, we picked out another club on Steve's list. This one was in St. Kilda on the infamous Chapel St. Given it's reputation we knew we'd need to get there early. On the website for the club it said there was no cover before 9. St. Kilda was about 30-45 mins away via tram or train so we left around 7:30. We ended up getting there around 8:45 to find no one at the door. We went inside and found employees setting up. Apparently, they don't even open until 9pm when they start charging a 20$ cover. So we walked around for a while and came back only to find that it was a members only club on every night except Thursdays. We asked the bouncers where else we should go and he reccomended the Revolver. We walked around Chapel St. stopping at clubs here and there but they were all either members only or empty. We stopped in a sports bar and asked the bartender what the deal was. Apparently clubs are either really exclusive or they don't start up until late, like midnight or later. So we decided we would wait for the clubs to get going. We got a pitcher of Carlton and sat watching footy at the sports bar till around midnight. We decided we'd try the Revolver. We found that some people had started to come in but it was still relatively empty. The stage featured a DJ wearing a red sox hat and just about the whitest australian girl you could imagine trying to rap. She was absolutely awful and we got out of there before our ears started to bleed. We tried club after club and it was the same things every time. They were either full, members only, or empty. There really was no way we were going to benefit from the situation so we caught the absolute last tram out of St. Kilda and admitted defeat. I guess we need to plan thing.s out better the next time we decided to take on Chapel St.

I slept in pretty late on Sunday. I spent the day doing some serious cleaning and finally got everything unpacked and washed from Adelaide. I did some work on the writing for our project as well. We left at 3:30 to see our first footy game at the Melbourne Cricket Grounds. We saw the North Melbourne Kangaroos defeat the Richmond Tigers pretty handily. The tickets were relatively cheap and footy isn't that hard to get the hang of. It was a pretty fun time. I'm sure we'll go back at some point. I spent the rest of the night working on my project and getting ready to head back to work the next day. In all, it was a pretty quiet weekend but it was nice to kick back and relax a little after the last busy weekend in Adelaide. We're going to be spending the entire week at work calling people and conducting our phone survey. It's gonna be pretty monotonous and I'm not exactly looking forward to it, but at least I'm not counting trees or something.