Weekend with Gabri

Gabe hustles down from Brisbane to squeeze in a night in Canberra. Vj, Luke and Steph came for dinner (also Vj's mates Dave and Zane). Friday night was hardly pumping though and we called it early at about 2am.

Managed to identify one player at the first mens trial game on Saturday arvo before heading to Sydney. Amy came along for a pretty groovy night at the Eastern in Bondi Junction but she left early. Apart from a bloody mary with waaaay too much tabasco sauce, twas a pumpin night, with a good population nicely spread out on the dance floor in the 'house' club.

Sunday, caught up with Amy again for a minute or two after a lazy wake up at Gabes then headed to the Game - A-League Grand Final! Gabe came through to score ticks on thursday evenin. The ticks were pretty good, dead center and just underneath the lip of the second tier, which was convenient cause we were on the sunny side, was nearer to the drink stalls, but inconvenient cause I couldn't wave my HUGE flag! (meh beg blew fleg) The game was not a classic, but sooo much better than the final NSL Final which VJ and I caught. The football was very entertaining, with lots of chances, and the Mariners were a bit hard done to not have at least one goal to their name. The winner was from Corica after a rejuvenated Dwight Yorke picked up the ball just inside the Mariners half and charged into the box, held possession for half a minute before teeing up the onrushing Corica who placed his shot well. Caught a small dinner with Steph before leaving, where our waiter, Jerry Zhu, gave us a free second round of drinks after I transferred a crappy phone video of the goal to him via bluetooth! Oh, did I mention I TAPED THE GOAL on my phone! hehe. The bleck blur is Dwight, the other blur in blue is Corica!

I'm recovering now, and very very late for uni, oh well!