Well now that the weekend is over, Ness is home again and it's back to reality after that magic win over Japan for the Socceroos in the World Cup Finals last night , I thought it was worth a little catch up of the weekend.
Friday
Sang at a wedding in the afternoon (some nice Mozart), Picked up Ness from the airport and dropped her down the Gold Coast.
Although it was wet on the way down and had to have the top up, it was a great drive back with the top down and the crisp night air rustling past.
Dropped in on Tom, Susan and Andrew on the way back for some Episodes of the Family Guy before heading home for the opening ceremony but didn't make it through all of the Germany v Costa Rica Match.
Saturday
Watched the end of the Germany v Costa Rica
Again it was a top up day for MinX but can't complain too much about the rain we've had such perfect weather recently.
Went and saw Andrew and Amelia's gorgeous new house in St Lucia.
Spent the night out at the Jazz Club watching Ty Noonan great music, best view from the venue across the river. Came second in the raffle so I have free tickets to go back!
Missed the last bus home so stayed in the city to watch the last 30mins of the England v Paraguay match (probably the most disappointing match so far)
Sunday
No time for a sleep in unfortunately... too much singing. After a pretty ordinary start to the day from about midday it turned into a gorgeous day. A beautiful day for taking MinX for an open top run, clear blue skies, the sun beaming down but still a cool hint to the air.
Quite night at home for the Rugby white wash with Australia 34 over England 3. All in all not a great performance by the Wallabies but a worse one by England.
Then more Cup action although I fell asleep at half time and had to watch the end of the match in the morning
Monday
Had a bit of a sleep in to catch up on the Cup madness of the weekend, spent the rest of the morning cooking and doing some house stuff.
Did a DVD audit while waiting for a load of washing and found an large number of missing DVDs. (will post them later)
Caught up with Tom, Susan and Andrew again for some more time with Family Guy.
Had some nice Indian (with Ben, Mandy and Tom) out at Morningside although the service left a bit to be desired, before checking out Mandy and Tom's cool new place and their awesome new Aquos LCD and LG PVR! I must admit the HD feed through HDMI to the Aquos was pretty impressive, especially in supernatural!
Then the most awesome game of soccer ever! (ok so I'm still on a bit of a high after that win, and it might not be the best game ever but it was still awesome)
Gaming!
Got plenty of gaming in this weekend with Ness away and with my new DS lite run in :)
New Super Mario Bros.
Picked this one up on Friday, Great platformed: Reminds me of the hours of fun playing Super Mario World. It's nothing particularly new but it's exactly what we wanted! I'm only up to the end of the Second world but I'm taking it slowly and trying to unlock/find/complete everything along the way (as a result I've got 76 lives)
Haven't done much on the mini games in single player but the multiplayer experience of the mini games is great. The best way to describe it is a portable version of the best minigames of Mario Party crossed with the stylus use of WarioWare Touched. Heaps of fun, even with only two players. The two player Mario vs. Luigi is also heaps of fun, nothing like having someone else collect almost all the stars to knock them down and steal them...
Resident Evil 4
Finished the 3rd chapter of this, and it's starting to get really hard. I've put about 4 hours into it so far but it's just a beautiful constructed game. If you like any sort of action game it's a must play! My only complaint at the moment is I can't take it with me! The controller system is great and the over the shoulder works surprisingly well for the FPS like component.
Metriod Prime: Hunters
Still my favourite thing to play online at the moment, had some tough matches on the weekend and went down a few points but I just can't help going back for more. The rounds are short enough with so much action packed in that you keep coming back for more. Still haven't played more than about 20% of the Single Player campaign with all my single player time on this game spent practicing against the bots.
Mario Kart DS
Rediscovered just how good this game is on the weekend. Andrew picked up his own DS Lite on the weekend and we spend a hour or so in racing battles pretty much until my hand cramped up. Played a few more rounds online with it as well. Anyone with a DS should own this title, just because you can always pick it up, play it and it never fails to amuse.
Nanostray
This was Andrew's first title on the DS and I was pleasantly surprised at how well it played given it's average reviews. It's a basic top down scrolling shooter in the style of Raiden, graphics are 3rdish and quite presentable and the levels are pretty challenging. Very easy to just pick up and play (then die). Multiplayer is basically one on one race to highest score without dying too much.
Great weekend, Lots of gaming, World Cup excitement, cruise runs in MinX and plenty of sleep deprivation.
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