Argentina

Spent the last few weeks snowboarding in Argentina. Facebook has overtaken blogger and is now the repository for all vids and pics. Here's one for old times sake anyway :]

The M3 King

Well, I'm not exactly sure what I would do in this situation, but this all seemed a little retarded. Its definitely not what you need on your way to work in the morning...



This was at the UCT on ramp at about 7:45.

Squash League 2007

The Kelvin Jokers managed an impressive 2nd place in this years 9th league. It was an excellent season with only 3 losses, two of which were to the league winners, VOB, and the last one was to a strong UCT side which was only by 2 points. Thanks go to Conrad for captaining the side and for putting in a lot of effort into booking courts, sending out reminders and ensuring we were all well fed. Thanks go to Nic for all the game time he put in both in practice and in league, even showing up for his game one week with a broken thumb. Thanks go to all the no. 4's we had during the season - Jim, Ken, Jonathan, Al, JJ and um, the last guy who's name I can't remember :]

We finished off last night with 4 wins against Milnerton. Looking ahead now to the Kelvin Club Champs in October. Here's a nasty pic from my phone :>

Gravity Adventure Festival

The Mainstream Meneers and the Shunting Munters took part in this year's Gravity Adventure Festival's Adventure Race. The race involved a number of activities including:

• A short swim
• White water rafting
• Orienteering
• A trail run
• A river traverse

The white water was grade 4, which was considerably larger than what I'd encountered before. Needless to say, both teams capsized at the end, but I'd like to blame our incident on the team in front who managed to turn perpendicular to the flow, hit a rock and block the only way down :]

Big up to limpy for organising and providing accommodation in Hermanus on Sat. Big up to Blake for managing to complete while still recovering from his ankle injury. Loads of fun. Managed to walk away with a R 200 Spur voucher as a lucky draw prize as well. That burger went down well :>

Noon day guns

Okay, so we're still getting over winter so the idea of the vest was to get some sun. Jason covered up for the pic at least, but I'm still deciding whether vest/jersey was a better call than shirt/no shirt ;)

sigh - too lazy to write ALL over again

k so this is take 2... just wrote a whole long ass post and then closed the stupid window before saving /cry!

so your gonna need to take my word for it that the original post was awesome! bloggers the world over would have been inspired with tales of death defying feats and other amazing stuff ... seriously

k so im gonna press "post" before i bugger up this post as well...

Mountain Men

Team Love Guns took to Hout Bay last weekend for this years Trail Run. The run can either be done solo or in a team of 3. It starts and ends at Hout Bay Yacht club and covers a distance of around 34 km. The first leg takes you up over the Karbonkelberg to Suikerbossie. The second leg then climbs up on top of Table Mountain, takes you along to the dams and then turns along the Bridal path to Constantia Nek. The third heads up and over towards Chapmans, but zigzags down to Hout Bay beach for a final run along the sand back to the Yacht club.

I was the only one who managed to get a photograph by one of the pros. I guess the other two were either looking too worse for ware, or were too focussed on their running to strut any sort of pose :]

Your's truly.

The limp dawg.

Attman, clearly running too fast for my Nokia to focus.

microlight plett

spent a couple of days up in plett in order to complete the knysna marathon. the highlight of the weekend was a microlight flip over plett where the instructor let me fly the majority of the way...awesome!

Hermanus

The infamous belliot organised a getaway to Hermanus this last weekend which I was fortunate enough to attend. What we thought was Hermanus actually turned out to be Vermont, which is a little town just before Hermanus which kinda shares its space with Onrus. We stayed in an amazing little house which had a patio out to the sea.




As for what happened on the weekend, well, I don't actually remember most of it ^^. We cruised into Hermanus on Saturday afternoon to go for a little stroll and some shopping. We did some whale watching and were lucky enough to see a few tails swish and one or two blowholes go off.




We came across a a local crew on the grass patch alongside Cubana who'd laid out their xylophones and were playing some tunes for the wanderer's by. Some of us got a little excited and decided to display our talents as well. Not my thing tho. I took the pic :]


So other than that, all we really ended up doing was eating, sleeping and playing whatever games we could think of. Thanks to Sarah and Kati for being our resident chefs for the weekend. The food was fabulous. Thanks to all who came up with the games. As lame as some of them were, they were a lot of fun and that's all we were really looking for :>

Old Biscuit Mill & Stellies

Had quite an adventurous Saturday. We visited the Old Biscuit Mill in Salt River in the morning. We took our time at each stall, tasting everything that was available and buying a few goodies at every other stall. The team's tally included things like:

• Honey and mustard pork sausages
• Champage and oysters
• Coffee
• Pancakes
• Hot Chocolate (Melted Dark Chocolate)
• Port
• Gluhwein
• Olive and Aubergine Pesto
• Creamed Honey
• Hamba Kakule T-Shirt
• Expresso Bean and Egyptian Rose Chocolate
• Butter chicken

We then motored off to Stellenbosch to find an estate to go taste some wine. Neethlingshof was open and had an available spot. We had a lively host who, along with Brian our resident Spelling B champion, kept us entertained for another few hours tasting various wines and trying to pronounce Gewurtstraminer.


We moved from there in good spirits to Kleine Zichte for more tasting. I picked up a bottle of their Shiraz which is one of my favourites. From there we caught the end of the rugby at 'The Forum'. This is situated opposed the Kleine Zichte estate, and has several projector screens up for games. The rugby was rather dismal, as was their food, but it was a good laugh observing all the locals in their element.