What a weekend!

Our weekend was so huge, it’s taken me four days to write about it!

Things started off on the right note – literally – with Powderfinger playing to a sold out crowd at Hammersmith Apollo. This wasn’t my first time seeing The ‘Finger in concert, but I’d probably say it was my favourite. Not only did they crank out hit after hit, but there’s something quite special about seeing one of your favourite Australian bands playing live, overseas – even if the rest of the audience is also a bunch of ex-pats.

On Saturday, we caved into our consciences, and joined up at our local gym. Though I enjoyed the six months off gym that we’ve enjoyed, my waistline hasn’t! Must admit though, I was pleasently surprised that I’m not completely unfit – I managed two, 20 minute runs back to back on Saturday and Sunday, without feeling too wasted afterwards. Resistance training has been a little more painful, but I’m sure it’ll only be a matter of time before it all comes back as well.

On Saturday afternoon, I got to enjoy the Chelsea versus Sunderland game from the comfort of a corporate box! Turns out that our work has one for the season, and there was spare seats, so along I went with a few of the other lads from our team. It was fantastic! The view was great, and the nana-blankets helped keep us warm whilst it poured down with rain!

I was so excited to be going to a corporate box that I turned up exactly when I was told at 1pm, and for about 20 minutes I was the only one there. Ordinarily that would be fine, but there were three staff in the box waiting on me, which was a little uncomfortable… especially when one girl came and just stood next to me with a tray of canapes for me to pick from! I said, “you don’t have to do that!”, and she replied, “well, I have nothing else to do!”. Indeed.

Kristy had a girly day organised at our place on Sunday, so I headed over to Ben’s place for some boy time. OK, it’s going to sound really nerdy, but we spent the afternoon upgrading our iPods and PSPs. It was really, really satisfying – especially the PSP upgrade, which had been on my “To Do” list for about 3 months. Nothing like running on the latest firmware…

The weekend finished off with another concert – this time, Crowded House at Wembley Arena. Our tickets for this came very last minute, but Caroline had six spare so we helped her out by buying a couple from her.

Crowded House were great – not as good as Powderfinger, but what can you expect comparing a bunch of Kiwi’s with some Brisbane boys? Anyway, the great thing was, not only did they take requests from the crowd, but they played right up until the stadium’s curfew! The bad thing however, was that they played right up until the stadium’s curfew – which meant we missed the last train home. We almost got stuck at Green Park but luckily Nathan and Kirsty knew that there was a night bus we could grab. Thank goodness for surface transport – the whole, “The Tube Closes at Midnight!” attitude totally bites.

Anyway, the concert was somewhat soured by the awful trip home, and I don’t think I’ll be going back to Wembley unless it’s something I really, really want to see.