Day out at Greenwich Park

My Vancouver friends (who live around the corner in Bromley), Kassan, Aaron, Haley and Geoff, had an invite from Kassan's mate Dom for a day out in Greenwich so they invited me along.

We turned up at about 2 after going wedding dress shopping for Haley and there were about 10 people there. We had gone to M&S for our lunch and then a cold beer and wine for our drinks - Strongbow - big mistake! So we pulled out the blankets, set ourselves up, introduced ourselves to all of the other people who we didn't know and got to drinking.

By about 4:30 there were about 20-25 people and there was cricket, football, badminton and frisbee going on. After about 3 or 4 strongbows I decided that it would be a great idea to try out football (soccer) and wasn't all that bad except for the fact that I tackled a bit too much (oops!) because it seemed to be the easiest way to get the ball away from the opposition. So after an hour or so of that we decided to take a drinking break.....back to the blankets for food and booze!

Then it was onto frisbee which I'm actually quite good at when "merry" but suck at when sober haha! After 45 minutes or so of that it was another drinking break.

The sun went down at 8:30ish and it went from being ridiculously hot and sunny to absolutely feezing so we decided to move down to the pub at the entrance to the park. Great idea!

I'd already had 5 or 6 strongbows and proceeded to have another 3 or 4 at the bar. Wicked time as the majority of the people there were Aussies and they can drink!! At some point during the night I ended up getting engaged to some random Aussie named Blair....don't ask!! So after that we decided it was probably a good idea to head home. Off we went to try and find a cab which was surprisingly easy for that time of the night.

Instead of all going our separate ways, Blair and myself ended up crashing at Haley and Geoff's as it's a halfway point from both of our places and Haley made us Kraft dinner - woohoo!

Fab day, hopefully if summer sticks around we can do the same thing next weekend!