St. Paddy's Day

Though not as eventful as the St. Pat's day that I spent in England with Corko (drinking 5 pints of Guiness at noon in order to get a hat), we had a great time here in Australia for St. Paddy's Day. We started out the day hanging out at the beach - I wish I could have brought my camera because we went to a new beach that day with a lot of really cool scenery around. Sometime I will get some pictures for you guys; it's gorgeous! After the beach, we went out to get some costumes for the evening's festitivities. Unfortunately there wasn't much of a selection. Lauren settled on some green felt to make some clovers, Carl got a green hat, and I bought a tube of green paint. The possibilities were endless!

I decided to take a white t-shirt and just write "Green" on it (hence, a "green" shirt - clever, eh?). I wrote "green" backwards on the back as well (doubly clever, eh? Ok, not really). After that, I was thinking that I needed something else to use up all that green paint. So why not paint my face? But not the whole thing, just a beard. Still not satisfied, I got the best idea of all - why not dye my hair to top it off? Yes, that's right, I used green acrylic paint to dye my hair. (Mom, before you freak out, it washed right out, no problem.)

Armed with a good looking crew, we headed out to the Evatt Common Room for some fun times. There was a green mash eating contest (I lost horribly - the potatoes were cold and not very good), and some other fun games. Then we headed out to the bars downtown. We all piled in the train, and there wasn't really enough room for everyone, so I decided to improvise and climb into the overhead luggage rack. It was quite comfortable - I could stretch out and everything! We headed to a couple barsand finished the night with an awesome pizza from a local pizza place.

Sunday I wandered around campus and took some random shots. You can see pictures of St. Paddy's and campus on my new Fotki site (my other one ran out of space so I created a new one). All my other pictures can still be accessed through the previous links, but from now on, all my new pictures will be at http://www.fotki.com/chase453-2.