Who ate all the pies

The weekend just been was all about eating and drinking. Saturday we went to a shopping mall for a looksy and on the way came across a shop that sold NZ beers, so of course the boys had to have 1. After an hour or 2 at the mall (and a few bargains later) we grabbed lunch and travelled to Earl's Court, stopping on the way for another beer and purchasing a couple of Bacardi breezers for me for consumption on the Tube. Reason for this was that we were on our way to a UK beerfest. We had a fun afternoon, I managed a couple of sips of beer but it's so yuck! Every time someone dropped their glass (which happened quite often) the whole crowd would cheer and it would move around the whole building (referred to as a a Mexican heeeeey apparently). Luckily none of us dropped ours. It was the last day of the festival and it finished up at 7pm. The boys were a bit drunk and very hungry so we headed into KFC for dinner and then hopped on the tube down to Shepherd's Bush where we had our first experience in a Walkabout. Walkabout is a chain of Aussie pubs around the UK, known to be frequented by a crowd of primarily Aussies, NZr's and Saffa's. Could be compared to the Grumpy Mole or the Outback back home. We'd heard lots of crazy stories, but on Saturday night every seemed to be well behaved (much to the boys' disappointment). They had a live band whom were awesome so we had a bit of a boogy. At one stage I heard Niki Woohooing and thought "gee he's getting into this.." but no, I should've known, he was watching the Warriors game!! We left at 11.30 as I didn't want to deal with night buses again and that worked out splendidly.

Sunday we were invited to Marty & Sheree's place for lunch and cocktails. They made lasagne (even homemade pasta), and other fancy canapes! It was soo yum. Marty was a good cocktail waiter and was constantly in the kitchen whipping up something new. Lotsa fresh fruit drinks and even had a try of absinthe. We were soo full, yet fitted in dessert and basically just sat around laxing/drinking the whole afternoon before running out the door at 6.30pm as we had Lee-Ann's Birthday dinner to go to! Luckily it was just up the road. We went to Mongolian BBQ...yes all u can eat! We rolled home that night.