Cold water

Well, Roddick beat Safin by 11.30pm on Friday night, so no late-night tennis watching for us after all. Had to have a drink at the Opera Bar instead, and then some late-night nachos at the City Extra - 24 hour food and drink with a view of the Harbour Bridge - sometimes it just has to be done.

I got up for swim training at the beach on Saturday, to find that the water temperature had reached a record summertime low of 14.5 degrees. Brrrrr..... Luckily the sun was out and the skies were blue, but there were very few people in the water - and most of them had wetsuits on. I think the coaches were scared of people getting hypothermia, so they made us alternate running (well, jogging, in my case) with swimming - my group had to run the entire length of Bondi Beach, and then swim back. Twice. After that I was ready for breakfast, and Alex came down to meet us and head to one of the beachfront cafes for some.

Managed an exciting trip to Ikea in the afternoon, for a new bookcase, and reminded ourselves again that we need to get the aircon in the ute fixed - it's started dripping all over the passenger's feet. It was around 35 degrees outside, and we were having to rely on Aussie Aircon - i.e. winding the windows down.

Jazzanova at the Beck's Festival Bar was all sold out, so we went to meet Chris, Esther and co in the Domain (part of the Botanical Gardens, with a big stage at one end), for this year's 'Symphony in the Domain' - a big free concert by the Sydney Symphony, which always ends with Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture, cannons firing and fireworks. Excellent. And you get to bring a picnic and sit and drink throughout. Followed this up with a few drinks in the East Sydney hotel - a traditional old boozer near the park - and ended up back at some friends' house, playing guitar and drinking Pimms until around 3am. Not bad for a quiet night!

Sunday was all just chilling - lie-in, lunch, beach, bbq. Ah.

Awoken by the builders upstairs at 7am this morning (Monday) - joy. Another beautiful day, and I was swimming in the Icebergs pool by 8.30am. Now just got to do a bit of clearing up, soak up a few more rays and then it'll be off to start my 2pm captioning shift.