Crazy weekend!

Last weekend was so hectic!

A few of my friend were in this 48 hour Film Festival, where you have 48 hours to write, cast, film, edit, and produce a short film- my barbershop quartet agreed to do a scene with them for the opening credits, for which I had to write music late late on Friday night. Then on Saturday morning we went to the Otago Harbour where we were shooting a lot of the film on a family friend of Logan's huge yacht. The weather was beautiful and we sang relatively well, considering I had just written the music. Then, I got my rugby stuff together and met the team to drive to Carisbrook stadium [The House of Pain]. We had the honour of playing at the professional stadium, which was great! I also got to start on wing, which was also great because these are some of the best woman rugby players in the world! The team we were playing against was the Woman's A team from "Pirates Rugby Football Club". These (wo) men were HUGE, especially the fullback (#15). Depending on the play, it was up to me a few times to tackle her. The first time I attempted this she sent me literally flipping though the air! I did a complete backflip and then summersaulted on the ground for a good 5m. I wasn't hurt, and I think she did end up dropping the ball forward, so I suppose the tackle was even effective, but these girls are BIG! I am remembering to keep my mouth guard in!

Later, we had Clubbies at the team clubrooms where the premier A teams (my team) wear all black and fancy scarves or ties. I had to do my rookie jug scull (Rooking is an ongoing process here) for the scarf: drinking an entire jug of beer at once! (In the interest of my liver most of it was spewed back up shortly later - classy I know). Later that night they made us do another skull as well. All in all there was a lot of alcohol consumed that night. We had a team lock-in in the change rooms after the fancy dinner. We got to dress each other up in costume- and Olive dressed me as "Little Bo Peep". In the pictures there is one of the Backs singing "Build me up, Buttercup" for the judges. Yes, these are some of the most talented rugby players in Otago, NZ and even the world, and this is what how ridiculous we looked in costume!

I got home at around 10pm because we had just had so much alcohol at which time wise people just told me to go to bed, and so I felt better in the morning.