3AM Friday Morning as the first games tipped off
Adding a little Bailey's to the coffee (ok, it's just milk)
This is why Drew's back still hurts and his sleep schedule is just now getting back to normal - he would get up at 3AM every tourney day and spend 8-10 hours a day hunched over the laptop.
The Waves n Wine "Festival"
The live entertainment at the "festival"
Surfest 2009
There was no swell the days we attended Surfest (2 foot waves at best)
More tiny waves
Even though we are across the world, we refused to pass up on one tradition - the NCAA tournament. Drew was up at 3AM to catch tipoff of LSU/Butler, the official kickoff of the first round, and Melissa followed about 30 minutes later. That was the first of several middle of the night alarms, followed by endless hours in front of the laptop and numerous cups of coffee. Even though Texas was knocked out the first weekend and Louisville followed the next weekend (to all we haven't talked to, nothing was thrown or broken by Drew - he handled it maturely), we don't regret screwing up our sleep schedule for about three weeks and using up half of our internet download capacity (yes, they cap internet over here).
The upside to getting up early to watch the games was that they were down by early afternoon, and we still had the rest of the day free to do what we pleased. The first weekend of the tourney we spent our afternoons at Surfest, Australia's largest international surf competition (past champions include Kelly Slater). Big wave surfing was few and far between (the swells died down the weekend of the finals, and of course the next weekend there were 8 foot waves crashing the shore), but we still enjoyed watching some pro surfing, knocking back a couple of cold ones and enjoying another beautiful day at the beach.
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