Just when I thought I was getting a little bored......
Now I am a pretty sensible girl who generally stays away from all things military and is not overly moved by the site of a uniform. Now that being said......I do have to admit to being really excited when I heard a whole ship of Argentinian sailors just docked in the harbor and would be in wellington for an entire week! Pitter patter went the heart strings!!! Maybe it is a programing thing because the first guy I fell in love with here in Wellington was from Argentina. But whatever the cause, I knew it would be an interesting week :)
At first there was the buzz and excitement but none of the sailor s were spotted about town. then we you'd hear about people seeing them in this place or that but never where I was! I swear they would be in a coffee shop the same day as me but an hour later! Urrgghh! I refused to hang around the dock like some wharf rat but still I really wanted to meet them! Then came the chance! My wonderful LA (littlest Argentinean) told me that on Friday night there was to be a party on the ship with a tour, lots of wine and lots of sailors! Now to convince my female friends to go with me. Now they are lovely girls but not the brave soul I am ......with the exception of Scottish. However, Scottish is in a relationship currently with the male version of herself and reasoned that a ship of South American sailors might not be an appropriate place for her. So, I grabbed some white wine and proceeded to pour some for my non brave friends as I detailed the many virtues of my plan for boarding the ship! A bottle and much later we where ready to go!
As soon as we hit the gang plank there were a group of officers cheering us! Oh my! Maybe I wasn't as brave either! However, we pushed on and soon we were whisked away for a complete tour of the ship! Then we were taken to the officers lounge for some excellent malbec and salsa music! Wow could those officers dance! There was one tall, handsome one that really showed me some excellent salsa moves that I won't forget ;) I have to say that they were also some of the most gentlemanly men I have ever met! A credit to the Argentina Navy! I really enjoyed myself and ended up not saying adios until 6:30 am!!! A great night all around and was very sad to see them sailing off the next day!!
Monday, October 6, 2008
Pirates, Fluro and Togas, OH MY!
How I spend my free time.......
So, being the lazy traveler that I am I have lots of free time. I do work but my work takes up about 24 hours of my whole week with an odd job thrown in every once in a while. How do I fill the remaining hours you might ask.......Well, glad you did! If you can't find me working then you will find me either at a party or preparing for a party. Now these aren't just small quaint get togethers or New Zealand style parties where you grab a couple friends, some weed and a box of wine (yes I said a BOX of wine). These are fun, fancy dress parties that we backpackers and our lovely hosts think up to fill our time!!!
First up in the past couple of weeks was the PIRATE PARTY. Now, why would we have a pirate party? Because it was International Talk like a Pirate Day and it happened to fall on a Friday! I mean do you really need a better excuse? So, off to the 2 Cheap store to find all our ridiculous costume bits and of course lots of crazy make up! Now I find that most people like to dress up and have a bit of silly fun but really lack the motivation or knwo how! That is where I come in!!!! I took a group of South Americans, Germans, and British by the hands and personally helped them assemble all their various fiddley bits! And WOW what a crazy night! It started up in our roomms where we had to all help each get dressed and I actually had a line of people going out my door waiting for me to paint scars, tattoos and piratey facial hair on them! The end results were pretty funny! We ended up down in our beloved bar packed with pirates, good music and free rum punch! That night was out of control. Of course it also introduced me to CK (crazy Kiwi) a fun, handsome but completey insane Kiwi guy that will not stop texting and calling me. I mean I know that I am fun on the dacne floor and a great kisser but really can you fall in love with someone in one night? Apparently for Kiwi guys it is possible! Oh well.......next party!
A couple of days later saw a large group coming into town who decided to have a Retro Fluro party in our beloved bar. Now this was another excuse to break out the paint and really what else was I going to do with my Tuesday night? So, take the internationals by the hand and go to the shop again! And fluro night it is!!! This time we decided that face paint and body paint would be the order of the night. Again I had a line out my door of people waiting to be made up. After about an hour of up pleading we even talked a wonderful Chilean guy into going in just his fluro swim trunks and letting us paint the rest of his body! Imagine! A German, Scottish and American girl hand painting your whole body for about 45 minutes ;) I think he really enjoyed himself!! We ended up having a party upstairs whilst getting ready and nearly didn't make it down to the beloved bar! However, eventually we stumbled down painted and wigged and ready to dance! Whewwww need to rest a week or two before we do that again or we could do togas :)
So, the next week saw us pulling our bed sheets off and getting ready to have an old fashion toga party! Did I say that the beloved bar offered a $50 bar tab for the most creative toga? This prompted the guys into all sorts of crazy behaviour! One completely nuts Brazilian even wanted to go down in a sort of mankini toga that was jsut all sort so wrong! Luckily after pulling myself off the floor from laughing at the site of him.....I was able to talk him out of exposing quite so much of his....well Brazilianess ;) One of our lads (a sort of very tall and well built Orlando Bloom type from England) decided to do sort of female toga look complete with breasts. He came in third and had to keep running away from all the guys grabbing his boobs all night. It was great fun. However, jsut a warning.......wehn you assemble your toga, make sure you can properly move and dance! Had to make a couple of adjustments once I got out onto the dance floor and thought I was going to completely lose my toga at one point but Orlando came to the rescue ;)
So, now the place is quiet once again and thinking about the next fancy dress party......hmmmmm..pj party might be fun......
So, being the lazy traveler that I am I have lots of free time. I do work but my work takes up about 24 hours of my whole week with an odd job thrown in every once in a while. How do I fill the remaining hours you might ask.......Well, glad you did! If you can't find me working then you will find me either at a party or preparing for a party. Now these aren't just small quaint get togethers or New Zealand style parties where you grab a couple friends, some weed and a box of wine (yes I said a BOX of wine). These are fun, fancy dress parties that we backpackers and our lovely hosts think up to fill our time!!!
First up in the past couple of weeks was the PIRATE PARTY. Now, why would we have a pirate party? Because it was International Talk like a Pirate Day and it happened to fall on a Friday! I mean do you really need a better excuse? So, off to the 2 Cheap store to find all our ridiculous costume bits and of course lots of crazy make up! Now I find that most people like to dress up and have a bit of silly fun but really lack the motivation or knwo how! That is where I come in!!!! I took a group of South Americans, Germans, and British by the hands and personally helped them assemble all their various fiddley bits! And WOW what a crazy night! It started up in our roomms where we had to all help each get dressed and I actually had a line of people going out my door waiting for me to paint scars, tattoos and piratey facial hair on them! The end results were pretty funny! We ended up down in our beloved bar packed with pirates, good music and free rum punch! That night was out of control. Of course it also introduced me to CK (crazy Kiwi) a fun, handsome but completey insane Kiwi guy that will not stop texting and calling me. I mean I know that I am fun on the dacne floor and a great kisser but really can you fall in love with someone in one night? Apparently for Kiwi guys it is possible! Oh well.......next party!
A couple of days later saw a large group coming into town who decided to have a Retro Fluro party in our beloved bar. Now this was another excuse to break out the paint and really what else was I going to do with my Tuesday night? So, take the internationals by the hand and go to the shop again! And fluro night it is!!! This time we decided that face paint and body paint would be the order of the night. Again I had a line out my door of people waiting to be made up. After about an hour of up pleading we even talked a wonderful Chilean guy into going in just his fluro swim trunks and letting us paint the rest of his body! Imagine! A German, Scottish and American girl hand painting your whole body for about 45 minutes ;) I think he really enjoyed himself!! We ended up having a party upstairs whilst getting ready and nearly didn't make it down to the beloved bar! However, eventually we stumbled down painted and wigged and ready to dance! Whewwww need to rest a week or two before we do that again or we could do togas :)
So, the next week saw us pulling our bed sheets off and getting ready to have an old fashion toga party! Did I say that the beloved bar offered a $50 bar tab for the most creative toga? This prompted the guys into all sorts of crazy behaviour! One completely nuts Brazilian even wanted to go down in a sort of mankini toga that was jsut all sort so wrong! Luckily after pulling myself off the floor from laughing at the site of him.....I was able to talk him out of exposing quite so much of his....well Brazilianess ;) One of our lads (a sort of very tall and well built Orlando Bloom type from England) decided to do sort of female toga look complete with breasts. He came in third and had to keep running away from all the guys grabbing his boobs all night. It was great fun. However, jsut a warning.......wehn you assemble your toga, make sure you can properly move and dance! Had to make a couple of adjustments once I got out onto the dance floor and thought I was going to completely lose my toga at one point but Orlando came to the rescue ;)
So, now the place is quiet once again and thinking about the next fancy dress party......hmmmmm..pj party might be fun......
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