The end of a long week...

Well, Friday is here!  This week has been extremely busy on the work front as we have had out to Sydney from Los Angeles my colleagues and also our brokers for a series of strategy meetings for next year.  After starting on Monday, we have been locked into all day sessions discussing plans, roles, and responsibilities for both my companies US operations and what we call “Rest of World” – which is Australia, NZ and UK.  Add on that things that have global operational impacts and then you get a very busy set of agenda’s.  We’ve also had a series of people dial in from Los Angeles, New York, Auckland and London and to orchestrate these meetings across the timezones has meant for some early starts and late finishes.  Add on to that the obligatory entertainment and hosting aspect of having to take out our international visitors (two of which have never been to Sydney) then it all becomes very draining.

Monday, Wednesday and Thursday have all been midnight – 1am home times after all the dinners and tonight it culminates in a harbour cruise and dinner on some flash boat.  I have brought the digital camera to take some shots for Niki and the girls and also for the visiting Americans.  After all the nights out, I am exhausted and am so much looking forward to the weekend.  I’m sure I will put some pics up on here over the weekend.  The only doubtful thing is the weather with showers and thunderstorms predicted!

The weekend though promises no respite, but in a good way.  There isn’t any cricket for me as we have the bye this week and next so I am able to do something different with the girls tomorrow.  However they have dancing rehearsals for their Christmas concert and I will be going down to help out with that.  It doesn’t finish until 3pm but little Brooke’s class (the babies) finishes at 10am, so I may take her and do something whilst Niki stays with Kate… but we’ll play it by ear.

Sunday, we’re going with the Old Boys crowd for a Xmas Picnic.  Pete is going to play the role of Santa - which is ironic as he is the skinniest bloke around and the rest of us are all “well equipped” to play the burly role of Santa.  Also, we’ll have the obligatory tennis ball cricket match, a bit of soccer (Wogs vs Aussies!) and a few beers and laughs.  Should be good :-)