April 25, 2006

Back to Noble, back to Noble, back from our Naracoorte-weekend holiday....

Yes, you read right, we're back! If you don't know who 'we' are, then WE are:
Sunny
Kirby
Luke
Ashlee
Patrick (Me...duh)
Preety
Emily
Renee
Stacey
Mr Caughey
Mrs Caughey
Miss McArthur
Flynn

Naracoorte was great. Everyone had a good time, presumably. I'll tell you about the trip in 'day' form, then some highlights and such.

DAY ONE: Off to Naracoorte

We left school at approximately 1 pm. Stacey, Sunny, Flynn and I were in Miss McArthur's car. Ashlee, Luke and Emily were in Mr Caughey's car (but on the way back to Noble Park Kirby joined). Renee, Preety and Kirby were in Mrs Caughey's car. The trip took approximately 8 hours, including stops in Bacchus-Marsh, where we had lunch at Mc Donald's, Beaufort, where the majority of us bought disposable-cameras, and Horsham,where we had dinner at KFC, just to please Kirby. We also stopped at the S.A.-Vic border to take photos. This is where Luke nearly hurt himself by jumping out of Mr Caughey's car while it was still moving!!! After taking the photo's, which took 10 minutes, we left for Naracoorte, which took only about 30 minutes. We got to Naracoorte at about 9 pm ASST, that would be 9.30 pm back in Victoria. The drive was long, but we saw many things, like the Giant Koala. When we arrived at the Naracoorte Holiday Park, we settled into our cabins. Mr Caughey read out the rules and said that each cabin had to perform a short play about forbidden love, revenge and tragedy, the next day. After all this, some people were outside and playing in the play ground...gotta love the swings! Everyone were forced to stay into their own cabin at 12 am. In the boys' cabin, we couldn't get to sleep as Luke wouldn't keep his mouth shut, speaking in the Maori accent. Eventually, Mr Caughey and I shut him up by threatening him. Sunny was either sleeping or talking on the phone.

DAY TWO: The Caves and the Performance

We awoke to a cold morning, but then a fine day. We were at the Naracoorte Caves National Park at about 10.30 am. Every student went in the caves except for Mrs Caughey, Miss McArthur and her son, Flynn. Instead, they went to the winery. Of course, some of us were jealous, eg Kirby, but we didn't mind as we got to explore in the Caves. In the Caves there were many challenges for us to perform. Mr Caughey, Kirby, Ashlee, Renee, Emily and I performed all of them. The others performed some too. You'll see how some of the challenges looked like in the photos during our next RBT meeting. After the caves, we drove back to the Holiday Park and rested. During that time, Flynn gave Luke a flower to give to Kirby, but couldn't admit to Kirby that it was his. Later, when Kirby, Luke, Ashlee, Emily, Flynn and I were outside, Kirby and Flynn got into a little quarrel; Flynn repeatedly telling Kirby that she's weird (which is clearly true...LoL jokes..maybe) and Kirby repeatedly asking, "But why?". After their little quarrel, we all ventured out to the Struan House to see the Romeo and Juliet performance. The performance was not bad, but we had to move around quite a bit. The Friar looked a bit like Gandalf from LOTR. When we got back, Mr Caughey, Luke, Sunny and I separated ourselves from the group to talk about what we were going to do for the performance, and started the BBQ. We then had to move to another BBQ as the one we started with was not working. While cooking the snags on the barbie, Emily, Kirby and Ashlee came by. Emily was hungry so she snatched the tongs off Mr Caughey, or Sunny, and started to cook the snags. We then had dinner. After dinner and watching The Biggest Loser and Big Brother, we performed our plays. Flynn was the judge. After the performances, the majority of the group sat down by the outdoor table and talked. During this time, Ashlee, Kirby, Emily and Sunny turned Emo, as a joke. After all this emo business, we watched Hide and Seek, then went to bed.

DAY THREE: Back to Noble Park

We awoke to a sad morning. We had no choice but to leave Naracoorte for Noble Park. The car-seating positions were the same, except, as I said earlier, that Kirby winged to Mr Caughey to be in his car on the way home. In Miss McArthur's car (the one where Sunny, Stacey, Flynn and I were in), we read a book to speed up the trip. Sunny and Stacey would fall asleep every now and then. We stopped at the same places as we did on the way to Naracoorte, but this time we also stopped at the Big Koala to take a photo, and others stopped at the Sisters Rocks where Kirby ate some grapes. Then we arrived back in Noble Park.

Best, and only, quarrel: This was by Flynn and Kirsten. Here's what happened.

Whilst Patrick is pushing Flynn on the swing, Kirsten and Flynn have a quarrel. Luke, Ashlee and Emily stand by and listen.

Flynn: You know what, you're weird
Kirby: Huh?
Flynn: (louder) You're weird!
Kirby: But why?
Flynn: You just are!
Patrick: I agree
Kirby: Flynn, but why?
Flynn: Coz you're weird!
Kirby: No, I'm just special.
Flynn: No you're not...you're weird!
Everyone laughs, agreeing with Flynn

Best Moment: The Caves...well that's what I think.

The Caves were great. We were in them for about 90 minutes. We saw no bats, but still had fun. There were about five challenges that people chose optionally to do. Mr Caughey, Emily, Renee, Kirsten, Ashlee and I did ALL of them. They were really small, but still do-able. The photos of the caves, and other places we were in, will hopefully be shown by the photographers at the next RBT meeting. But some are already up on the Flickr site. Here it is:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/redbacktheatre/

6 comments:

stace said...

i CANnot believe you left me off the list. honestly, how could you forget me? gosh

PaTaRty said...
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PaTaRty said...

What?! You ARE ob the list, I don't know what you're on Stash. Kirby, today is the day we confirm your position of being the weirdest of all!! Isn't that right Mr Caughey.

RBT said...

I dunno Pat.
Sometimes after reading some of your posts I reckon she's got some serious competition...

PaTaRty said...

WHAT??!!! "Competition"! I am NOT weird...as much as she is :D LoL..but sir you're weird too!!

PaTaRty said...

Gosh..i could at leats get a commment from my post!!!