Last Friday I flew down to Sydney. I was due to hop on the plane at 11:45am and got there at 10:30am but when the plane I was flying down in landed it was delayed… and delayed… and delayed… and finally… cancelled. Luckily for me, I didn’t end up flying on it as it had been struck by lightning. Unluckily, I was freezing as the air conditioning was turned on even though it was cold and rainy outside. Luckily, when we had to change flights and grab our bags off the conveyor belt so I managed to grab a jumper out of my bag. Unluckily, I had to wait four hours for the next flight. Luckily, it was the smoothest flight I have ever been on. No turbulance at all.
Friday night, I went with some friends to the Hellfire Club in Darlinghurst. It wasn’t as interesting as I had expected. I had more fun at the goth club "Ritual" when it was on. I even worked there for several months which was great as I got free entry and drinks 
I sat around but headed off after about one hour. I caught a taxi back home and took ages to get to sleep then kept waking up many many times. Scott had a great time as he picked up. Lucky boy 
Saturday, we walked his ‘pickup girl’ back to her car at Darlinghurst and then walked down to Subway to have lunch. After that, we went to the Adyar Online Bookshop and both picked up some stuff there then went back to Scott’s place. We had dinner and he headed off to bed early to catch up on sleep since he had been out until after 4am that morning. I stayed up and watched an episode of Absolutely Fabulous. I had no idea they were still making episodes of that and it turns out they all get together every few years and make 5-6 episodes just for the fun of it. Edina and Patsy had gone out to a Marilyn Manson concert and were talking about Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. Patsy had her hair shorter and straight-cut which made her look about 20 years younger. She didn’t have her hair up in a beehive until the short bit after the credits.
On Sunday, we did a bit of shopping at the Broadway shopping centre. We had lunch there. I had a chilli concarne which was very nice with some extra jalapenos and sour cream. I didn’t buy anything but checked out the Games Wizards computer shop and the Newsagency. We picked up a couple of free cds with demo levels of F.E.A.R and something else I’ve never heard of before. We didn’t do a heck of a lot for the rest of the afternoon.
On Monday, Scott and I watched some episodes of Firefly which Scott is really enjoying, then I caught the Light Rail into the city and watched Serenity again. I had seen it several months ago but had not watched Firefly so didn’t really know everything that was going on and whom everyone was. It was even better this time. I was reading an article which had an interview with Orson Scott Card saying he loves Serenity and if nobody can make Ender’s Game as good as Serenity is, he never wants it made and will instead just watch Serenity. Can’t get better praise than that!
I flew home last night and got caught in a huge thunderstorm. There was even too much turbulance to read a book so I just held on. I felt like Elvis Presley — All Shook Up! I couldn’t even listen to the onboard music as there was so much static from the lightning all around the plane. I did briefly hear the end of a song on the comedy channel. It was Monty Python’s "Brave Sir Robin" song. Very funny stuff. I don’t even think it was sung by any members of MP.
Bec and the kids met me at the airport and I think Sienna was the most excited out of everyone to see me. We had to wait about half an hour for our luggage. About a dozen bags came out and then nothing for half an hour and then the rest appeared. Great fun holding onto kids for half an hour waiting for luggage.. NOT!
We hopped in the car and it was really starting to rain. There was so much lightning and wind and rain I could hardly see the road while travelling home. It really was extremely wild. Some people lost power to their homes (I think about 700 of them). We drove through many mini rivers.. with one even over the motorway. I ran into Red Rooster and bought some chicken and chips. It was already after 8:30pm so we didn’t have time to cook dinner for everyone. The staff said people were still going out in the bad weather and buying Red Rooster to eat. Crazy people. I can understand if you are already out and on the way home, but not if you just go out to get RR to eat .. unless you really like driving in heavy rain and wind and hail.
