Following lunch with my local staff, it was home for yet another nap. When I got up, I went to get my haircut and a massage and I made it back in time to host the final installment of the CCP bowling league. I was pretty proud of us here at the CCP. From our humble beginnings of five bowlers and one cheerleader three weeks ago, our last outing had no less than 25+ people attend ( I ran out of fingers and toes so I had to stop counting). It just goes to show you... everyone loves to kick back, relax and slum it once in a while. Everyone was in fine, fine form. We were all done work, all stress was off, so we had nothing to do but let loose and throw caution (and bowling balls) to the wind. Like the game itself, however, several attendees were having a hard time dealing with the dreaded 'split'. it is so weird how attached you can get to people when you go through hell and back together. Here are a few pics of how it went down...
Could not even get everyone in the frame...
Miss Jo, our bowling hostess was sad to see us go in the beginning... but these two would have no idea what hit them by the end....
Vivian, Lou and Susan - Lou and Susan were just happy to be out of the office!
Eloisa doing a victory dance? An interpretive dance? Whatever it was... it worked.
Tim, the good boy scout brings 'byob' to a whole new level
Due to an unfortunate bowling accident - this was Olympic level stuff people - Vivan was down for the count and unable to vie for the title... one hospital visit and one stitch later, however she was as good as gold.
We had ping-pong (excuse me... table tennis) going too... Paige displays the long known truth - Good Canadians can do anything while drinking a beer.
We started bowling night earlier than usual (10pm) so that we could go out after. The party then moved to bar street and David, Joey, Paige, Simone and myself headed to Sanlitun and our beloved beer gazing while standing on the street....After a few cold ones, we hit our fave dive bars shooters and butterfly (where 4 redbull vodkas are 40 rmb = 5.5 dollars?), we then moved on to bar blu - too many stairs, not great music that night - but we did meet up with Emma and Rory there - so the bunch of us went back to Shooters then Butterfly... and finally it was off to China Doll where we ran into Scott, Dean, JF, Marie-Eve and Chantel... it was there that we finished off the night and danced till 4am.
Paige and Simone - my good Canadian girls
Simone, Paige, Joey and David in Shooters Butterfly? Bar blu? They all looked the same.
Chantel and Scott showing Canada's got love (I hung with a lot of the Canadians actually).
Upon staggering back to the CCP, I ordered room service (fried rice noodles with beef = no hangover!). But seeing as the CCP is dorm style and we all roam the halls, I found that Dean, Maarten (not Dean Martin, however) and Audrey were still up and about. We all met in Maarten's room and chatted into the wee hours. Another night of no sleep, but what is a boy to do? I had things to do the next morning - 1. recover, 2. pick up my suits from the tailor and 3. get ready for the final night party....
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