Wake up early as it's a 10am lobby call and I have to get breakfast and finish packing up all my stuff.
Another cold and grey morning in Melbourne, but the view is pretty good from our hotel room balcony...
That's the museum you can see in the middle of the park (which i think is Carlton Gardens), and there is is an Imax theatre there as well. At the moment the museum is showing an exhibition called "Treasures of the Titanic".
Get downstairs and load ourselves and our bags in the van and drive to the airport.
We are on an 11.30 flight to Canberra, then it's a 2 hour drive to Jindabyne.
We all check in and head upstairs to the qantas club, then its computers on the table to take advantage of the free wireless internet...
Nick, our regular tour manager, has to do another job for the next few days so we have employed Sean Richards (Bomber, Goggles) to take care of Jindabyne, and drive to us to Wagga Wagga...
Sean is no stranger to the band. He was our regular tour manager from 2000 till 2006. It's gonna be fun to have him on the road for a few days, as we have obviously shared a lot of crazy experiences over the years!
We get into Canberra at 12.30pm and start the drive to the snow...
We go through Cooma, Bredbo, and wind our way up through the hills till we catch our first glimpses of Lake Jindabyne.
I took the next photo when we were crossing one of the dams that was built on the lake during the construction of the Snowy Mountains hydro-electric scheme.....
We stop in at Nuggets Crossing shopping village where i run into an old friend from Byron. We catch up for a bit & i promise to put him on the door for tomorrow night.
Drive 5 minutes out of town and check into the Station Hotel and Resort complex. Resort is a drastically inappropriate word for this place. It's more like a series of demountable huts surrounding a huge pub. Anyone been to a sport and rec camp? You get the picture...
At 6pm we head to the pub for some dinner. We discover there is a poker tournament on tonight! Phil is happy.
Eat, then sit down at the tables. I get knocked out pretty early and head back to my room....
Get a call from Krisso at about 8.30 and there is a trivia night starting up . Hell yeah! Love that shit...
Our team is me, Sean, Joe, Krisso and our lighting rigger Mace. It's a pretty messy affair, lots of tables of drunk snow dudes, and a few English tourists. Our team is called The Superdudes!
After 5 rounds we are tied for first place.
To decide the winner i get up onstage and do a best of 3, paper, scissors, rock challenge against a girl from the other team....
I win!.....but guess what? First prize is 2 tickets to the Grinspoon gig and a case of Barcardi Breezers.
We decide to pass the prize onto the other team, and they are stoked.
Phil emerges from the poker tables...he came 5th.
I head back to my demountable and watch some election news. Sick of it very quickly and it's lights out.....
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