We went to the Old Church at Byron Bay for the weekend with Fav BIL, Nemain, Miss CL, NMdG, Carrot Cake, Yale, Mr K, myself, Roz and Orlando. It started out as NMdG wanting to go away to Caloundra with about 4 of us for the weekend as a farewell for them before they move to the UK. But as much as that sounded like fun, I thought the church sounded like a goer if we could get enough of us together.
The Old Church in Byron Bay what fits up to a dozen people comfortably – We managed to get 10 like minded individuals on the invite list, and luckily everyone seemed keen and able to make it along. We went down on Friday night, and everyone was excited, it’s fun to get away and do something a little out of the ordinary like this, and everyone was in a holiday and party kinda mood. We got pretty drunk, sat around speaking a lot of rubbish and ended late in the night sitting around talking in the choir loft.
In the morning, we had a fantastic brekkie and then I dragged everyone down to S(A)X leather for some shopping. It was kinda fun to see how everyone liked the place. They only have a little showroom, but they have heaps of stock crammed into that little space. Quite a few of the items on display raised a few eyebrows and seemed to get the guys visibly wincing quite frequently. 🙂 I bought myself e a nice little belt. I’ve needed one for ages, since I dropped some weight, but never found one I liked… it should turn up in the mail later this week. Yay for retail therapy! 🙂 One of our party, who shall remain nameless, bought a pair of wrist restraints, and it was so cute to watch everyone playing with them for the afternoon… quite the novelty!!! We also popped into this strange Happy Herb shop in Byron that Yale recommended, and I picked up some Tongan Kava which might make a good muscle relaxant for my back…. will have to wait and see about that. The afternoon was spent in drunken ping pong while I cooked dinner and everyone was well and truly toasted by the time the food hit the table. When the dinner was finally all done, and I was out of danger of losing a finger on the hideously blunt knives, I went out and had a smoke and caught up with the drunkards really quickly… off with the pixies before we knew it….
After dinner, we hung out, got drunk, had strange conversations, got more drunk, strange conversations turned to talking absolute trash, drunker and drunker, talking trash turned to true confessions and so on and so forth….. everyone was drunkety drunk drunk, and having a great time. I got to know everyone much better than I ever thought I would which was fun. I certainly had a great time. And you know – there’s something really cool about doing it in a church. You can go away for a weekend with your friends any old time, but do you get to stash a whole pile of new “I Have Never”s for future reference? No… not always !!!
I have never… got high in a place of religious worship. Stands up and drinks 🙂
I have never… discussed anal sex in church. Hmm more drinks 🙂
I have never… had sex in a chapel. Stand and repeat 🙂
I have never… kissed a chick in a choir loft. Burp!!! 🙂 LOL
The next morning we had another bang up brekkie… fry up thank God – just what we all needed. We pottered around the house, read some newspapers, and flopped about for the morning. After that we packed, and said goodbye to the happy church… and have made a tentative plan to come back in twenty years for another fun weekend 🙂
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