Duh Vinci, Midnite, School + Work

So, I guess it's time for an update. Really, we haven't been up to too much in the last week and a bit. I am nearly done school for the semester (one more class) and the last week has been quite the crunch getting all of my final assignments done and handed in.
Jeff is still working hard selling insurance and has been doing pretty well apparently. In the last few weeks he has won a cd player, 6 cinema tickets, 3 bottles of wine, a few cans of soda, internet time, and some snacks.
On Tuesday we went to see the Da Vinci Code at the greater union theatre on George street. We both found the movie to be about the same caliber as the book. Just like the author, the director makes connections between characters and symbols painfully obvious (ex. Illuminating objects to draw slow-audience-members attention; "just in case you missed it, this is important"). The book read at about a grade 6 level and I don't think that the movie achieved anything spectacular either. It's understandable that the book drew such a huge audience, what with the many (certainly not all) Christians and Catholics unable to understand the term fiction, but I still think that it's all a little over done. The book was a mediocre crime novel and the movie is a mediocre suspense film.
On the upside, Jeff bought us a huge box of popcorn and some fanta.

Other than that, we've been working on our surfing skills, reading a lot of longboarding magazines, drinking litre beers at the Bavarian Cafe (with pretzels), watching some theatre in Killara (Midnite), reading "100 Years of Solitude" and making plans to go to New Zealand near the end of June. Getting tickets for the trip has been a fiasco, but hopefully it will be all sorted out this evening, and the more intricate details can be worked out.

Plans for this weekend we will probably involve:
surfing,
lunching,
kayaking,
and an evening at the Rocks (A beautiful and historical part of Sydney with lots of pubs and pastry shops).
Since, we've got so many free tickets, maybe we'll try to catch another movie as well.

In total, things are going pretty great. I think we're both starting to feel the pressure to take the last bit of advantage of our time here. Still on the list are: New Zealand and The Blue Mountains.
We're both looking forward to being home again, but it is going to be pretty crushing having to leave our oceanside home. Trips to the Atlantic are already in the works.

Don't forget, this month is birthday month. So we'll both be expecting some congratulations come the 5th and 24th of June.
XXO