Mark of Sark.

Mates stag do weekend this weekend, that was interesting.

I shared my course with Mark through first, second and third year before he gradated a year before me with a B.Eng (im doing the masters year in with) And as sarah, the other half of the sark, was my housemate in second year mark was a bit of a surrogate housemate as well. Particularly as his house was further from campus and didnt have a telly for him to plug his Wii into!

The event was a fairly relaxed approach to a stag to, rather than the maybe more stereotypical '25 lads going on a booze cruse for two days' event.

Mark had invited four people, including another coursemate and housemate of mine, a friend from home, and sarahs sisters boyfriend. (brother in law to be). We all came together on friday night and chatted around a few beers, exchanged stories and youtube clips, and ate some good chili and rice.

Saturday saw a BBQ lunch, followed by an afternoon of mountain boarding, and an evening of an all you can eat chinese buffet and a few rounds in the local pub.

I'd never been mountain boarding before, and as someone whos never been able to skate, and spent a whole day not snowboarding one ski trip was a little apprehensive of how it might go. But actaully it was very good. After an hour on the nursery slope we could all just about get from A to B without face planting the ground to much of falling on are arses and we then had the whole of the afternoon to just freestyle it slowly build our confidence while chatting, videoing each other fall over, and generally messing about. Not of cause hindered by the fact it was actaully glorious weather all day and really very pleasant to be outside.