Day 3 of NYE setup - the Italians are here!

Hello everyone,

After a pretty uneventful day yesterday today was a little more interesting. 

We started where we left off yesterday with a barge just laid out with racks, there were only 3 of us on the barge as the crew had been split between all the barges with other teams preparing rooftop gear and the harbour bridge. With the 3 of us on the barge it became very quickly apparent that I was the most experienced so we agreed that I would be in charge of the layout. I have a map to follow of what goes where along with a show script of about 200 pages with what should happen where and when. 

This was the show plan map.

Long story short the team that laid the barge out yesterday did a pretty poor job of it racks were wrong, in the wrong place, wrong numbers it was a mess so it took a goo while I sort, once it looked ok we started nailing together breaking 2 nail guns in the process. I handed them back to the office said that they were a little on the faulty side and ran away.

Oh I forgot to mention, the Italians! The Foti family is Italian with only a few living in Australia, other Fotis from Italy have arrived on site now. What a great bunch of people, they don't speak much English but hey their English is far better than my Italian I can only say hello and thankyou. 

We started loading mortars and wiring the same as the last 2 days. Lunch today was a fantastic roast lamb, that went down a treat! The wind picked up this afternoon which kept the temperatures down but made working more difficult.

4:30 came and we packed up and went home. Last night I had a brilliant Heinz spaghetti and meatballs which I made in a matter of 2 mins, stir and microwave for a further minute. I have that down to a fine art now. Tonight I went all out and cooked a creamy mushroom pasta. Thanks Dolmio! They put good things in so you wear the Dolmio grin (aparantly) well so the advert says...

That went down a treat and I retired to my room. I'm sharing tonight with a South Korean girl that grew up in France and is studying in London. Try and get your head around that accent then!! Anyway a pretty boring blog from me sorry ill do something better when I have more energy! 

Oh here's the show so far...