Yesterday Chris, Steven,
Brendon ,
Debbi, and I started the day with a healthy dose of Age of Empires, which quickly turned into underhanded alliances, backstabbing and general nastiness, but fun was had by all.
At about 5pm the Wongs, Reenen, Hanna, Charles and I headed out to Benoni to do some sandboarding with the
PureRush guys. We met up with Debbi's brother Jason already there. I knew those old mine dumps had to be good for something.
It's basically snowboarding, just a bit slower and a lot more sand. Highly recommended!
Some videos:
A successful run [1.95mb]Slightly less successful [3.13mb]
The sterkfontein weekend draws near, I'll be heading down there on friday for the weekend. Strangely
www.1stweather.com(the best weather site in za) chose this week to break their wind maps so I'm not really sure what's what with the wind on the weekend.
One of my work colleagues, Louis is also going to be joining. What are the odds ( you can probably count the number of active windsurfers in Jo'burg on one hand) that there are two windsurfers working for the same company? He's buying a new board and rig for the occasion. He tells me that he's buying a Xantos 295, which is the same a what I have. From what he describes it's this model :
While mine is this one
but as far as I know they are identical except for the paint job.
We are going to look like the Xantos team at the dam, because most of us are sailing the same boards :
Myself, Philip, Roberto and Louis all on Xantos 295s and Malcolm on a Xantos 310. It's quite unusual since there seem to be more board choices than people using them.
I'm turning 30 tomorrow.
We already had the surprise party on saturday, proving that I'm the most unobservant person on the planet for not noticing the preparations. I should be more suspicious of my friends.
Labels: Windsurfing
