My birthday

Ok so I'm gonna have to rewind the last two weeks. Things have been hectic here, and on top of that we've had lightning and thunder storms that took out power, phones and internet a couple of times. So now it's catch up time :-) I'll date them as if I was writing them back then though :-)

Ok so .... I'm at camp. Good old frenchwoods, no one can understand what this place is like unless you've been here :-) This session (they're 3 week sessions each) we're doing 9 full productions. My birthday was spent doing auditions with about 250 kids, then a casting meeting, then damage control for upset kids who didn't make it in their preferred show. So I didn't get to actually celebrate my birthday on the day itself.

Two days later however ... Myself and Rachel (another awesome kiwi)both celebrated. her birthday was that nite. About 50 of us went to the CC ... a place you'll hear mentioned regularly. It's the country club where we go for drinks. Walking distance ... but a challenge to walk down the driveway at times. Anyway, we all went up there for drinks, made friends with more of the staff (there's a lot of us, I'm still meeting people), and I managed to not buy a single drink myself all nite. I will defintely say I wasn't in the best condition at the end of it though. But I was around mates so it's all good. We stumbled back to camp about 2am, and when I say stumbled, I mean it. 6 of us in various combinations of people throughout the walk, holding each other up as we walked down a dark driveway without a flashlight. Falling in a ditch with 3 other people attached to you is an experience not to be missed, haha. Only one major bruise ;-)

It was a good nite though, was good to get out and just relax and chill out with people. The drinking age here is 21, so a limited number of us can go there. There are plenty of other places though ... you'll hear about them later :-) There's always a party on somewhere every nite. You just get your share of exercise getting to them! and back...!

Oh I forgot to mention, if we're not back at camp by 2am we can't come back til 7am. It's a mission sneaking in past our 2 ex-israeli army security guys who are sniper trained. Yep, real security... to protect us from ourselves I think, haha.

I haven't really taken pictures yet, that nite my camera battery died on me. But one day I'll add photos I promise :-) That's the birthday nite over and out. A good one, and well worth celebrating :-)