Saturday, June 21, 2003

Sailors!

Hmmm, let's see.

Thursday night, MojoSnow (that's the company that Court and company went skiing with) had a big party at a bar at Coogee Beach. A busload of people from the Funkhouse went, and it was a good time. At 1:00AM, the bar shut down, and buses started ferrying people to the Empire bar in Kings Cross, right across from our hostel. I stayed there for about 20 minutes, then went back to bed. It was a very fun night. It was a theme night, Austin Powers was the theme. There were quite a few Austin Powers themed costumes, Court and some other girls went as "sexy chicks" and Court had on this very short skirt and white, highheel boots. Court said, as they were walking to the party, guys thought they were all prostitutes, and were trying to proposition them! Haha. She remarked the next day that she is NEVER going to wear a skirt that short again.

This weekend, the city is being overrun with sailors, marines and other armed forces folk. Earlier in the week (Thursday, I think), the Australian forces that were taking part in the Iraq war returned home, and they had a big parade for them in downtown Sydney. Some American ships (including at least one aircraft carrier) has docked at Sydney for the weekend, coming back from the Iraq war, and all the bars and strip joints in Kings Cross are all flying American flags. And there's lots of American amred forces walking around. I'm sure they will all do a great business this weekend! I'm sure the prostitutes will have a business boom this weekend too!

I think that's it for the update this time.

Until next time. I'm off to take pictures of the aircraft carrier now!

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