Question One for zero points: What did Blue Mountains Musical Society host on Friday night?
Christmas Trivia!
Let's backtrack just a little. Back to a post Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat performance meal at Macca's. A few of the cast picked up some fabulous red and white striped socks.
With a couple of swaps the people in socks would become a trivia team - Annastasia, Cassie, Jess, Mark, Micah, Mitchell and me.
A team was formed, but what would we be called? One of the original sock wearers, Ben, changed the group chat name to Soc(k)rates. It became the team name and inspired an array of decorative ideas.
I suggested some bizarre festive/sock/Socrates decorating ideas in the group chat. The ideas were on the internet, so I had no choice but to follow through because everything you read on the internet is true.
I couldn't do it alone, so I enlisted the expertise and extra ideas of Annastasia. We began our quest at Rudolph's Warehouse.
Here we realised why the other reindeer used to laugh and call him names. His warehouse was terrible, although this little guy thought it was lit.
The warehouse held nothing sock related and we left with nothing but a few photos.
We then moved along to Spotlight and picked up handbags only to put them back down again, but not before adding a photo to the group chat and telling everyone they should get one too. Lol
All this festive foraging made for hungry work. Hog's Breath Cafe in Penrith was there to help.
My steak was ace, but I've had better sweet potato fries. Annastasia seemed impressed with her apparently hilarious meal.
Following our feasts we made our way to Big W. We discovered 10 pairs of adult socks for $10, but just 4 pairs of baby socks for $12. So lesson learnt. Skip having babies and give birth to adults instead. It will be cheaper.
We felt our shopping adventure was complete, I dropped Annastasia back home and returned to my abode. A short time later I received a message. It was Annastasia informing me our centrepiece could no longer be provided by our original source.
I drove back to Annastasia's house, greeted her with, "Get in loser, we're going shopping" and we were off to Kmart. We found our centrepiece then entered the secret Christmas section of the store. Remember the joke photo of the handbags at Spotlight? Well, we found better ones at Kmart and actually bought them.
Initially I was a little hestitant to purchase the Christmas stocking, but when Annastasia suggested its use as a handbag I couldn't resist this festive season's must have fashion accessory.
While traipsing through the aisles it daaaawned on us our earlier plain white socks purchase required adornments. We jumped back in my car and completed Christmas craft in the Kmart car park while listening to show tunes.
11pm really is prime time to place stickers on socks.
Annastasia and I separated again. This time until the next evening. Once home I completed some more craft before grabbing a quick sleep.
Then the day of Christmas trivia finally arrived! Could we achieve our dream of first prize for best table decorations?
I hopped in my sleigh and was off to pick up Annastasia and Jess.
We arrived at Springwood Sports Club to find the white tablecloths we'd envisioned were absent. How would we handle this hurdle? By Jess asking one of the obliging staff for a tablecloth. Annastasia, Jess and I put our table together with a little help from our friends Mitchell and Cassie.
Socrates was our star and baby socks were placed on the tree.
The adult socks rimmed the tinselled table.
Scattered on top were Socrates quotes on one side and Christmafied quotes on the flip side. #festivephilosophy
Left over sock stickers and a marker were used in the Decorate Your Ball Station.
Cassie jumped at the opportunity.
Finally the team was all there... maybe not mentally, but we were all physically present.
The big man in red made a special appearance too.
Mitchell really got into the Christmas spirit. Later in the night he won a jumbo wine glass, but that wasn't the coveted prize.
After purchasing food, trivia was on. The decorations and questions served as quite the distraction from my giant goat's cheese and quinoa salad.
Earlier in the evening Mark asked how trivia worked. I assured him he'd be fine, but did not provide an explanation. Fast forward to round one, question three where we had to guess the name of a song. Mark enters the room and rather than quietly telling his teammates the answer, he confidently shouts it to the entire room. He was Born to be Alive, but in that moment we all wanted to kill him a little bit.
It was an evening of discovery. Mark learnt how trivia worked and Micah realised Parson Brown is not a euphemism for a bowel movement. After a couple of rounds it was time to remove my quarter eaten salad to prepare our table for judging. The top 3 tables were announced. Soc(k)rates was in the top 3!
And then we found out we were in the top 1! We won!
We celebrated by transforming into a Christmas tree. At first it was worse than our attempts to answer trivia questions correctly, but then it came together.
Annastasia and I then completed the mannequin challenge. Look how still we are!
Aubtin made a minor, yet stunning, adjustment to Annastasia's haute couture.
Let's get back to the trivia questions. We came second last in the first two rounds.
Could we come second last in the third round for a special prize? No. Instead came last for no prizes. I've honestly never had so much fun losing. We proved ourselves to be very knowledgable.
We still had the Bunker voucher and thought now would be the best time to use it. The cafe was cleaned of debris and cleaned out of people, but the staff were kind enough to let us in for drinks.
We knew acting casually would ensure excellent service.
Our purchases equalled $49. We each got a drink to ourselves,
and then a Snickers milkshake with seven straws. Our waiter even stood on a chair to capture this strange, yet iconic moment.
The Snickers milkshake was delicious. Mark and Micah couldn't tell you that though. Something about not wanting to share drinks.
Then we all strolled to the pub. Micah took one look at the riff raff out the front and turned around. Normally if you can get past the crazies out the front it's ok inside. I figured we had already walked here, so why not go in? I'll tell you why not. This time the pervy, crazy patrons weren't just out the front, but had also taken over inside. Soc(k)rates remained inside the pub just long enough to capture some photos to make it look like a fun time.
The pub was only a miniscule hiccough in a super fun, winning evening. I dropped Jess and Annastasia home, then the trivial fun was over... until the next Blue Mountains Musical Society trivia event.
Hog's Breath
Springwood Sports Club
The Bunker
