I created this blog for my family and friends to catch up on what is happening in my life.Hope you like it. Josh

Wednesday, January 24, 2007

The City good times

Well after a dissapointing finish to youth Olympics I chose to take abby into the city.I dont think she had seen the harbour before so we caught a train to central and then went to cicular quay.We then went onto the ferry that took us to darling harbour.It was a great boat trip as we went under the harbour bridge and she saw luna parkand just the beautiful harbour in general.Once at darling harbour we went into the aquarium.Havn;t been there for about six years abby had never been in an aquarium period so she enjoyed it seeing heaps of sharks seals sting rays (argh you killed a national icon bastards!!) pretty fish ugly fish and penguins haha.Afterwards it was to centrepoint tower and we quickly ascended that.I forgot how awesome it looks from up there sydney is awesome i would never leave it.A quick bite to eat for lunch and hen it was back onto the ferry and back to penrith.The next day it was that time again a trip to hornsby teary goodbyes for now and watching cityrail speed my girl away from me :(:( I miss her! Counting the days til im with her again like 15 i think :)

Tuesday, January 09, 2007

Long Time

OMG there is so so so much to tell and i have not updated my blog since the U2 concert that was like in november well whats happened since then.Ok firstly I have been spending a lot of time with my girlfriend abby and there has been multiple trips to and from newcastle all is good and we just spent 10 days together in melbourne at the national championships.Well i scored some neat stuff for xmas a flask a awesome engraved keyring some cologne some money some gift vouchers some dvds and some other little stuff like that.On Xmas day i spent time with my mum in the morning and dad in the evening.THe next day I drove to hornsby to pick up abby and seeing her again made me so happy then we got all packed for the nine hour haul to melbourbe to compete on the goulbourn river otherwse known as eildon. Okay down to racing.The competition started with the national schools championships.I pulled out two good runs but had 2 seconds of penalties both runs.I felt strong for this race and my preperation for the race was awesome.In the end I sat 2.5 seconds in front of mingerulli and ben miller sat in third.I was extremely happy with the end result.After a couple days rest that was filled in with cricket swiming cards videos food lol and just socialising in general it was time for the pre aussie championships first of the selection events.It was a short course,a sprinting course and i was feeling good about a positive result from the start line to gate 9 i felt good until i came into gate 10 and my paddle clipped a rock and tipped me instant 50 race over!!! i was feeling pretty bad but turned to nationals.I approached nationals with an all or nothing attitude.
After first runs i was in third with 2 touches second runs i pulled out a fast clean run to win the race a good end to the competition. Still the rankings seem to dissapoint me and continually remind me of pre aussies well everyone has a bad race and it was my time unfortunately.
I had a great time in melbourne catching up with everyone racing socialising and spending time with abby.It was all positive and it will suck next year as aussies are at penrith so no camping but luckily no 10 hour car trip or 24 hour boat trip :):) well youth olympics is on in a weeks time and i am feeling nervous already we go into camp on the 16th and racing is on the 19th and 20th
Thats it for now cya