Laura's leaving party

Laura is getting ready to fly to the US next weekend for her stint at Camp America - she has yet to find out where she will be going but has a flight booked to Newark, where everyone meets before going off to their nominated camp. She had a 'small' party at the house on Saturday night where about 30 of her friends gathered for several hours before heading off to Manly for the rest of the night. It went well despite the progressive increase in noise level, and there wasn't too much tidying up to do afterwards.

Saturday was another day of torrential showers and the drought of 2 years ago seems a distant memory now. However, most of the rain that falls goes straight out to sea, which isn't great and means that the beaches are closed (or not recommended) for 24 hours after heavy rain. Rebecca's football on Sunday was postponed again for the second week running, so the teams are going to start building a backlog for the season end.

Last Monday, tickets for AC/DC's 'homecoming' tour went on sale and I tried in vain to get online to buy some (although it's only me that's interested!). There was 1 show in Sydney initially - at the ANZ (Olympic) Stadium - which sold out within 15 minutes and then a second show was added (on Caroline's birthday). Subsequently a third show was added and although I eventually managed to see some potential tickets, they were right at the back, which for the money wasn't great. Apparently someone worked out that 2.3% of the population bought tickets for all the Australian shows (500,000 tickets) in less than a day and total ticket sales are expected to be over $60m. In Sydney, 3,400 tickets were being sold per minute at the peak of activity (or 56 tickets per second).