Birthday Re-Union

"Hello, to you too"

And that was it, like we'd never been away, Nomes and Chris were still the same fun souls we had spent such memorable times with on the banana bus in South America, BTB was still the same flambouent, friendly guy we had grown to love. Strange how when you meet people in a concentrated 24h, no getting away from you, kinda way, it doesn't seem to matter how long you spend apart, the time it takes to get back to the point where you left it is comparitively tiny. The night passed quickly, the jugs of beer consumed at a good brisk pace. As with all get togethers a selection of wierd animal pizzas were shared and the hours slipped by with catch up conversation and dips into nostalgia. I presented Vince with an enormous cake fitting of the milestone(I don't think the photos do justice to it, that was a giant novelty candle!) and Happy Birhthday was sung. All in all a thouroughly good night all round, not sure if we both had to go all the way to Sydney to go to the pub, but you know, The Far from the Madding Crowd looked busy. The night comes to an end and we all go our seperate ways, who knows when we'll meet again?

As it turns out, the next day at Chris and Nomes house, we made such a good impression we got invited to spend the rest of the trip with them.