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Why you don't host house parties

From Embarking on the Journey of my Life in Calgary, Canada on Dec 08 '06

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Smiley Face and Rob and his Mostache
Smiley Face and Rob and his Mostache
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So it's been a while since I wrote my last entry about half a month ago, well the main reason is I've been waiting for something exciting to happen and something exciting to tell you guys and also I've been working long hours combined with minimal sleep and different sleep patterns makes it almost impossible to get onto the computer and add to my blog. But I did try it and the last time I tried to do that, I woke up kissing the keyboard with drool coming out of my mouth with every single groove of the keyboard embedding a mark on my face and it looked like my face was made out of lego, it was not pretty, especially when you have to go to work looking like that anyway. And to answer your question "Yes I got laughed at."

Howe and Rob
Howe and Rob
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But moving on, the past coupe weeks I had a shocker of a schedule because of the late shifts of working at 4pm at night then the function going until 1 or 2 am in the morning and finally getting to bed at 2.30pm, but soon getting up at like 6am in the morning for a 7am start and working for another 15hours is just absolutely insane. I mean most of the time I'll be walking around like a zombie answering questions with yes/no answers and dragging my leg on the floor and by that time our mind would pass the point of sanity. At which point Rob(the other Aussie Caterer) would laugh at anything and everything, crack stupid jokes and act like clowns because nothing would make sense anymore so we would just start cracking up until we had stiches in our stomaches like we're on laughing gas and my boss would look at us with a blank confused stare with the question running through his mind "What the f**K are they on?"

Yep being stupid again
Yep being stupid again
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But thankfully this is the very last week where people really have xmas functions and catering tends to die down a bit from here onwards which means no more ridiculous hours and more time to party, snowboard and have fun.

Which leads me onto the beers that we drink over here, I haven't really tried much yet, but we have mostly been drinking Canadian which is probably something Canadians don't like too much but it tastes alright. Then there is Alexander Kieths which is a much better beer. The other beers are grass hopper, Kokanne, Honey Brown, Traditional Ale which are some of the other beers  I still have yet to try. As usual we have been going out to a few bars here and there and also having one or two house parties which often leads to the destruction of the house. I mean a weak ago was my last house party and when I walked in there was 90% of people with 2 big bottles of longneck beers of 1.5 litres each taped to each of their left and right hands drinking beer and the aim was to drink all your beer before you take a piss otherwise you piss in your pants, there was one casualty but I was suprised most people made it through okay. Also in these units that we live in there are like basements down stairs so these are pretty much underground and so these aussies decided to have kind of like a night club down there. Throwing like a boom box stereo down there with a little sophisticated strobe light to incorporate a strobe light. Once everyone was pissed enough there were probably about 10 to 15 people dancing and singing along in the so called club and Drew decided to lock them all in the basement so they can't get out. A few minutes later we hear "Boom.. Boom" a bang on the door and no one opened the door then it was like "Booom...BOOOMMM...BOOOMMM. Open the beep beep door(censored for reasons..just put whatever you like in)" Then a second later CRASH the basement door dismantles into pieces with wood flying everywhere and hinges breaking off like some wild elephants just stomped through the house and everyone was looking in shock that someone crashed through the basement door with the door dangling off sideways and people walking out like nothing had happened. But now no one is aloud to have their basements opened at all. Which really sucks. But also that is also why we are never going to host a house party at our house.


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