Weak Sauce to BBQ Sauce!...Hammer or You're Nothing!

So yesterday I spent the entire day at the beach. I woke up at 7 to get dressed and meet Al, Dan, and Katie waiting for me in Al's car to drive down to Coolongatta on the Gold Coast. As we were driving, we pointed out the cloudless sky, and we rolled the windows down to take in the perfect warm weather. It was going to be a good day.

Now, not only were we going to be on the beach. We played in a frisbee tournament on the beach. Barefoot. In the sand. Near the ocean. Amazing. We're one of the first cars there, so Katie and I decide to take a dip in the ocean before games started while the two guys threw the frisbee around a bit. The water was a bit chilly, but we got used to it; it is their winter still. More people started showing up, and pretty soon it was time to play. The cones set up, the teams color coordinated (thanks to Johnny and his extra pink shirts), and the sun above our heads, we were ready to play. It was alot different playing in the sand and alot more tiring. After each game we went for a swim, threw the frisbee, and jumped through the waves.

Pretty soon, we had played two games, and it was about 2, so we headed up to the beach club to have some lunch. Steak sandwiches (which are NOT like cheeseburgers, Brett) and chips followed by a hot sticky date pudding wrapped up the parts of my lunch. Brett, smart enough not to realize that chips came with the sandwich, ordered an entire bowl of them on top of the ones that came with it. So along came the dare...Brett enjoys smothering his chips in bbq sauce. We enjoy laughing at how much he puts on there. Pottsy finally said, "I'll give you a $10 note if you finish that whole bottle of sauce." Of course, Brett's in. After 3/4 of the bowl of fries, a couple shots, and one huge gulp of the bbq sauce, he was only half way. Johnny puts in another $10, but Brett gives in. Weak. Sauce. ha.

We then realized that we just spent about an entire hour up at the club, so we mozied on back down to the beach. We still had more frisbee to play! Although we were tired and full, we played some more. The disc flew in all directions; flicks, hammers, and other various passes zipped past defenses and into the hands of a player parallel to the ground. A few other layouts were less lucky, as in, they got a mouth full of sand but no disc as a reward. The sun was setting on the final couple games, and we all laid on the beach and admired the scene. Feeling that my face definitely received more sun than the rest of me, a group of us decided to head up to the club deck for a drink and the sunset. Pretty soon, everyone was up there and we were laughing at nicknames, southern belles, bbq sauce, and sunburns.

Driving back in Al's car, we got back to the city to drive right through riverfire, the massive fireworks display brisbane puts on every year the first week of september. I must say that we had one of the best views. It was pretty sweet. Overall, the day was perfect. Beach, sun, friends, frisbee, fireworks...lets do it again next weekend!