Day 13. Date Night. - Wednesday, 30/11/2005
We had our second Personal Retreat today. This time it was dry enough to have it in the Dog Park, so we did.
Yes, o Relatives, I wore the red dressing gown. Get over it already!
Tonight was Date Night - one of the two nights we have off. Everyone gets excited about date night. Even I can forget about the Schoolies long enough to have some fun.
For date night, the guys are divided into groups of about 4 or 5. Throughout the week, they are given an extremely small budget to plan a group date not knowing which girls they are going to have. This is not a real date, it's group dating a group, and all elements of individuality are eliminated in a very appropriate way.
Jim, Tim L. and Rob were in my group, and this afternoon the girls found out what groups they were in. At the last minute, we found out which groups we were asking out. Carla, Emma, Vanessa and Jess H. made up our group of girls.
We got the girls to stand together and then we down on our knees in front of them with fake roses in our mouths and Tim said something poetic (as he was already married, we designated him as the expert).
Then the girls had to take the roses from our mouths (not with theirs though, that would have been over the top).
Then we took Jim's van to Put-put, and played mini golf against moving obstacles. Carla won, I think, and I came last (definitely). I got a finite score though, and I think someone must have added it up incorrectly, because Rob marked me down for twice needing to hit the ball infinity times (even though the limit is 5). One of the times, because I lost my ball in a bush and had to get another one.
We found a humungous slug (you can see it on my hand), and I decided to keep it as the perfect Date-Night-Present for the girls. I thought it was very romantic of me...
Jim's van rocks! Literally! Some of the girls were afraid it was going to tip over when we leaned from side to side in sync to show the girls how cool Jim's van was. We sang every love song anyone could think of, but we hardly had to do anything to keep the girls entertained though, because Tim kept all of us in constant hysterics. He is a true comic genius!
We took the girls to the beach where we ate food and drank drink (sparkling apple cider), where this little dog, without any owner, came running past us as though it was going somewhere with purpose. No one seemed too amazed about it, until the same dog kept running past us almost everywhere we drove to tonight.
Also there was another date group that turned up at everything we went to just after us. We found out later though, that while Jim got discounts on everything by mentioning that we were Schoolies Volunteers, the other group didn't. It was funny later on, hearing the huge difference that they had to pay for everything.
When preparing for Date Night on Thursday, each of the guys wrote a message to put on a card, and then with calligraphy pens, Jim and I wrote the messages randomly on the cards we had made to confuse whose handwriting wrote what. We each bought a present wrapped it up, and we each randomly stuck someone else’s card to the present. We gave them the presents tonight after the dinner, and the girls took turns reading each card aloud so that the others could giggle and sigh at our attempt at romantic poetry, which was mainly borrowed from Songs of Solomon and other books of the Bible.
We drove to the border of NSW and QLD where we took a photo of the evolution of man from NSW to QLD. I, of course, represented the lowest of the hairy apes.
We also took some pictures of the guys in QLD rescuing the poor helpless girls from NSW.
And we couldn't miss Mother Earth at the center of the earth!
We played with sparklers. This happened here, because we forgot to do it earlier.
There was a storm brewing, and we went to the top of a mountain overlooking the sea, where Emma and Tim tried to take pictures of the lightning with digital cameras. Emma succeeded.
Tim is absolutely hilarious!
Yes, o Relatives, I wore the red dressing gown. Get over it already!
Tonight was Date Night - one of the two nights we have off. Everyone gets excited about date night. Even I can forget about the Schoolies long enough to have some fun.
For date night, the guys are divided into groups of about 4 or 5. Throughout the week, they are given an extremely small budget to plan a group date not knowing which girls they are going to have. This is not a real date, it's group dating a group, and all elements of individuality are eliminated in a very appropriate way.
Jim, Tim L. and Rob were in my group, and this afternoon the girls found out what groups they were in. At the last minute, we found out which groups we were asking out. Carla, Emma, Vanessa and Jess H. made up our group of girls.
We got the girls to stand together and then we down on our knees in front of them with fake roses in our mouths and Tim said something poetic (as he was already married, we designated him as the expert).
Then the girls had to take the roses from our mouths (not with theirs though, that would have been over the top).
Then we took Jim's van to Put-put, and played mini golf against moving obstacles. Carla won, I think, and I came last (definitely). I got a finite score though, and I think someone must have added it up incorrectly, because Rob marked me down for twice needing to hit the ball infinity times (even though the limit is 5). One of the times, because I lost my ball in a bush and had to get another one.
We found a humungous slug (you can see it on my hand), and I decided to keep it as the perfect Date-Night-Present for the girls. I thought it was very romantic of me...
Jim's van rocks! Literally! Some of the girls were afraid it was going to tip over when we leaned from side to side in sync to show the girls how cool Jim's van was. We sang every love song anyone could think of, but we hardly had to do anything to keep the girls entertained though, because Tim kept all of us in constant hysterics. He is a true comic genius!
We took the girls to the beach where we ate food and drank drink (sparkling apple cider), where this little dog, without any owner, came running past us as though it was going somewhere with purpose. No one seemed too amazed about it, until the same dog kept running past us almost everywhere we drove to tonight.
Also there was another date group that turned up at everything we went to just after us. We found out later though, that while Jim got discounts on everything by mentioning that we were Schoolies Volunteers, the other group didn't. It was funny later on, hearing the huge difference that they had to pay for everything.
When preparing for Date Night on Thursday, each of the guys wrote a message to put on a card, and then with calligraphy pens, Jim and I wrote the messages randomly on the cards we had made to confuse whose handwriting wrote what. We each bought a present wrapped it up, and we each randomly stuck someone else’s card to the present. We gave them the presents tonight after the dinner, and the girls took turns reading each card aloud so that the others could giggle and sigh at our attempt at romantic poetry, which was mainly borrowed from Songs of Solomon and other books of the Bible.
We drove to the border of NSW and QLD where we took a photo of the evolution of man from NSW to QLD. I, of course, represented the lowest of the hairy apes.
We also took some pictures of the guys in QLD rescuing the poor helpless girls from NSW.
And we couldn't miss Mother Earth at the center of the earth!
We played with sparklers. This happened here, because we forgot to do it earlier.
There was a storm brewing, and we went to the top of a mountain overlooking the sea, where Emma and Tim tried to take pictures of the lightning with digital cameras. Emma succeeded.
Tim is absolutely hilarious!
3 Comments:
how come Jim wasnt dressed up?
ha, that sounds funny :-) Go Mathieu! Almost done....
Nice pictures Mathieu. And good question G, why Jim isn't dressed up... Good on you for wearing your Dressing gown...again. :P (Me and my 2 month late comments)
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