Pub Crawls and Pancakes

Our second week of school was even more interesting than the first. Notably, playing with cadavers in Anatomy Lab. The bodies have most of their skin removed except for the fingertips, which is only to hold the muscles and tendons in place. We had arms AND legs this week, and I'm starting to feel a little bit more comfortable handling dead body parts. Wes' group had a man with half a face, where you could see his nose hairs and eyelashes etc. The creepiest thing about that was the fact that he was staring at them as they probed him. I'm glad I wasn't in that group... it was hard enough to eat lunch after lab already! But aside from our own little Body Worlds exhibit, we went on a Pub Crawl with some OT classmates. For $10, we got free entry into 4 bars with a free drink at each bar and pizza at the end of the night. Such a good deal and so much fun! It was a great way to check out the Sydney bar scene, even though we can't really remember exactly where any of them were.

The next day was a recovery day, or so we had planned, but a few physio friends wanted to celebrate St. Patty's since they have class on Monday morning. So we headed over to Mel's apartment with the intention of going out to Scruffy Murphy's, the Irish pub downtown, but unfortunately we never made it. We all blame it on Nick, a fellow Vancouverite, for drinking too much goon juice. If you haven't heard of goon before, it is 'wine' that's sold in-a-bag-in-a-box. Now I didn't think this was special because I've been drinking cheap boxed wine since I've been here, but goon is barely recognisable as wine. According to some, nobody has actually been able to prove that it's fermented grape juice inside. However, I think this is part of the charm when it comes to goon. It has the reputation for making you do crazy things that you'll undoubtedly regret the next day, as Nick can attest to. But one of the selling factors is that once the liquid has been consumed, the empty bag can been blown up and used as a pillow...

Very useful if you've just consumed 5 litres of non-descript alcohol. After seeing how much pain Nick was in the next day, I've vowed to never touch goon! I'm sticking to my actual wine and I hope Wes sticks to beer! This is not to say we never need a bit of TLC the next morning, but after St. Patty's especially. There's a popular breakfast spot that's only a 5 minute walk from our place, and it was the perfect opportunity to check it out. We quickly learned why it's so popular, it's an IHOP on steroids! There were so many different kinds of pancakes that we were totally overwhelmed. Here are a few snapshots of some items on the menu...

The portions are huge and we were full until dinner late that evening. It's safe to say that Pancakes On The Rocks is our favourite hangover cure for sure. We're going to introduce a few of our friends to the madness next time things get messy the night before. There are only a few locations around Sydney and we're so lucky that we've got one so close. When we were staying in Darling Harbour with our moms for the first few weeks, we walked past a place that had a line-up every time and we wondered why. But we solved the mystery, it was a Pancakes On The Rocks. They need to expand their business to North America, it would go wild! I guess for now you'll just have to settle for IHOP and we'll be dreading having POTR withdrawals when we get home.