'tis the season

.....to get on a party boat on Sydney Harbour apparently.

We must be moored on the party boat route. Increasingly our nights are spiked with the sounds of work Christmas parties.

Last night was no exception......

Last night we were treated to all sorts of tunes including:

Zorba
Jacko
Barnesy.

One catamaran hosted 15 big blokes (who were at the inebriated point of yelling rather than talking) huddled on the front left hull (that'll be the port bow) - the skipper was perched on the back right (trying to balance the vessel?) and looked like he was having the time of his life. Zorba rang out from that boat... I LOVE Zorba.

Michael Jackson glided past singing about not stopping 'til you get enough and that particular boat bounced. It was a massive thing, strung up with fairy lights, with a top deck crowded with 'talkers' whilst the inside bore the sweaty bouncers. That one looked FUN.

and then Barnesy. Good ol' Barnesy - the Barnsey whose songs fell out of the Aussie pubs in London, or the backpackers in Bangkok with the anthem Khe Sanh. That was a medium sized boat, with purple lighs, and carried - I imagine - a hundred or so 40 somethings being transported back to London or Bangkok and their early 20's. They knew all the words.

That was 3 of many who rock & rolled past us last night. It's festive. I love it.... and sends me on a trip down memory lane. I wonder what the boats will have in store for us tonight....