Denver or bust...

Denver or bust...
Originally uploaded by decentred.

it's been a busy week. We've been on a normal round of workage, but this has been liberally interspersed with bouts of going out. This started on Monday with a trip to Paddy's to meet his buddy Josh from Australia (and to watch the game that booted the Socceroos from the World Cup. that was fun to watch with Paddy, Josh and Katie...

Tuesday night was pretty full-on - we had the next day off as we'd done training on the Monday, so we all went out to Bunbuku for a meal, and on to the somewhat peculiarly named 'Queen's Echo' for some very, very bad Karaoke. The little machines they have in there are incredible - in addition to the normal, TV-type remote is an 8-inch LCD panel, which is portable, touch-sensitive and (most usefully) in English. The translation leaves somethinng to be desired on occasion, but it's really useful.

Wednesday, I went to Usa Shrine with Paddy, Kumes and Josh, whilst Em nursed a hangover (I was more in favour of field medicine consisting of a Coke and some crisps). There were loads of Koi in the lake, and Kumi showed us how to feed the ducks. Seriously.

Thursday, I took Josh to GooDay (the pun being suitable for someone from Australia), and after managing to stop him buying the biggest paddling pool I've ever seen by reminding him that he was only here for a week (I only just managed, by the way), and we bought fireworks. I figured that we'd get a couple of packs of bottle rockets, but Josh buys the biggest bag of fireworks in the place, and we set off to cause a series of small, localised explosions. However, the weather had other ideas, and we had to give up on that (but there's still time - he doesn't go until Sunday night). So off to Tropis for a quick one, until I had to go to bed. Man, am I tired...