Last week my cousin
posted some very old photos on her Facebook page and they brought memories
flooding back!
Some of the photos
were from one of her work dinners that ended in drunken karaoke (which so many
of our nights often did) and another was from a well-planned New Year’s Eve
that got a bit turned around.
As I sat and talked
to my friend on Friday night I contemplated bed. I turned to her and said that
I could not believe how different my life is now. In my 20’s Friday and
Saturday nights were the nights that we hit town. 9.45pm meant getting ready to
drive into town and not contemplate sleep.
How I managed to go
to University all week, go out on a Friday night, drive everyone home at around
3.30am, sleep, get to work by 9am and then do it all again. Oh that’s right…I
had youth on my side.
There are weekends
when I actually miss going out into town until the early hours of the morning,
dancing until I could barely stand on my feet. Now the closest that I have to
loud, pumping music is aerobics at the gym. A few years ago I really wanted to
go to a rave at New Year’s so that I could just dance with wild abandon…suffice
to say I stayed home!
The other day when I
went to pick up our race packs for Motutapu I drove by Lenin and remembered all
the nights spent there. It feels like a life time ago!
I remember the
Waterfront and ending our nights at c. Now where the Waterfront was I can sit at
a café and enjoy a coffee instead of wading through water and bubbles at their
‘Wet and Wild’ Nights. How times have changed. Oh and who remembers Stanley’s
Nightclub on Queen Street? This was the first club I regularly frequented.
Oh and Bar of the Stars!
Best Karaoke venue EVER!
Would I go back to my
20’s? Yes, just for a weekend though!
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