The RIPPER DOWNUNDER DO Sept 11th 2009
 

Hi

We are planning another SYD DO ^ for Ripper3785 and Mrs Ripper.

All welcome. More details to come, but save the date. We plan to have a dinner on the northern side of Sydney, on the FRIDAY evening of Sept 11th.

Many thanks to BiziBB for sourcing and getting approval (from Ripper :D) for the venue :-:.

VENUE: Phuong
ADDRESS: 87 Willoughby Road, Crows Nest
PHONE: (02) 9439 2621
DATE: Friday September 11th 2009
TIME: 6.30pm for 6.45pm
BYO $3 corkage charge per BOTTLE PLUS set menu of 8 courses for $27 p/person ^

Directions: see post #49 and #54

Looking forward to meeting with some fellow SYD FTers and everyone else who can make it Downunder :).

TARONGA ZOO DAY - SUNDAY 13 September
Ripper cant make the zoo, but for those still hanging around that weekend, we are adding a day at the Taronga Zoo (great views of the harbour) for anyone interested. I anticipate that we will meet mid morning for some fun in the sun. Please indicate if you are interested.

Attendees
 

Post for attendees:

DEFINITE:
Ripper3785 +1
Downunder girl (Dinner & Zoo)
UAL4Life (Dinner & Zoo)
BiziBB +1
Noelene
Leumas
Upperdeck744 + friend
tinkybelle +2

MAYBE:


PATHETIC EXCUSES ;) :
Kiwi Flyer (although has a reasonable excuse, I guess :D ).
todorovic :p
Pat89339 :)
Pooch :D
Mrp Alert :p
Omnivore :)
Itsalongwaydown - OK Florida is a pretty cool excuse :p
chchkiwi :D
vecta :)
wijomas :p
Ozstamps :)
Irwin8417 :p

Totaly going to this come hell or high water! Can't wait!

Fantastic ^. Cant wait to meet you UAL :).

Also I was reminded by an Aussie FTer that I need to change the date to read in AUSSIE format so its 11/9/09 ...oops, mods please help :o.

done :) it now reads Sept 11th 2009. I hope you'll have a great DO

regars,

chrissxb
co-moderator
communitybuzz!

Thank you for your help and extremely fast service, Chrissxb ^ :-:.

Come Downunder and join us if you can!

BiziBB reporting... I just noticed this thread. :) Bl:eek::eek:y Ripper! :D

I've suggested Mrs BB's favourite restaurant; a great local place.

UAL4life, I love it when people from CO come to Sydney! ^

Downunder girl, have you tried Phuong at Crows Nest? A fun place, great family who run it, great location, next to a wine shop and close to the city but outside the tourist traps.

Delicious (but approachable, easy for anyone) food, nice outdoor dining, wine and good company. :)

Sounds fantastic to me ^. I dont think I have tried it, but I am KEEN to do so.

I hope it will be to (Bl:eek::eek:dy) Ripper's liking or I will get blasted in chat tomorrow for starting this thread ;). At least this will be one DO I actually can attend. Ripper gave me the date quite some time ago so its in my diary.

BTW I have assumed you will be joining us :)

Phuong's been ^'d by the Ripperz. :D

Excellent ^.

Have updated first post.

Looking forward to it!

I miss by a day, arrive 12th. :(

B:eek:gger... weeknights are much better for me as it's a bit of a trek into the city on weekends and I'm thoroughly sick of the city to be coming back on weekends.

How long are you in town - at least until Monday or Tuesday night, when a FT party can be arranged, to continue this tradition? :)

I'm in Sydney one night only this time.

Phuong's is a great restaurant, have been a few times over the years. Authentic and tasty, exactly what is wanted out of a vietnamese restaurant.

If I'm around 11th Sept (schedule changes like a yoyo) and I can get Ms vec to come along, we'll be there.

Looking forward to it! I'll try to make sure Tony is working, if possible, as well as Phuong herself. :)

Oh I'm so sorry, KF, as I would love to meet you :(.

Can you change your flights so I can move you off the "pathetic excuses" list perhaps? ;)

As BiziBB says, perhaps this will grow into a weekend extravaganza!

vecta, I hope you can both make it. Have added you to the "maybe" list.

Looks like you guys will have fun - wish we could join you but the rest of the year is already fully booked when it comes to leisure travel. Boy, do I wish I had more vacation days :(.

Sorry to miss out on this. My next flight to SYD isn't until 9/29.

Pat, I'm sorry you can't make it but am happy to meet you or set up something at the Shangri La (a v. popular, spectacular and extremely pleasant place) around 5PM-ish per our other recent threads, like boxo's fun week here and JohnSydney2000's Bondi Walk Do. :)

Closeby to us and would like to attend but we may well take another trip to Argentina in September as we like it here.

These 30,000+ EQM trip are good fun. :)

At the EZE RCC now, and had a great week in Patagonia. 40 hours of flights ahead today.

Please pencil us in as "Maybe's" as no idea 3 months out, of our travel plans. ;)

Glen

Sorry that Todo and Pat cant make it :(.

I have added you to the "maybe" list, ozstamps. Hope it works out for you.

ozstamps, Kiwi Flyer and anyone else here briefly, but not for this night, I am about to put this on Twitter: a rave review, looks great, especially if we could catch up for a Friday lunch. :p

I could be a maybe, depends on if I can get there, college & work, I'm constrained by public transport from Gosford to get there so that may pose problems.

I hope you can make it :). Understand re the travelling but hopefully a train from Gosford can get you reasonably close by. One of us might be able to do a train run to collect the train goers and bring them to Crows Nest @:-).

Have added you to the Maybe list.

Are you on your comeback tour? :rolleyes:

Please add me as another maybe.

priceless and topical :D
Luckily, there is a good wine shop very close, so you can even bring along a taste of Hawkes Bay. :)

I hope that you can make it. Can you check 131500.info to see if there is a timely routing to get you to St Leonards?
Is Gosford-Hornsby-Epping-Chatswood workable? BiziBBs would head back to the Nthn line this way, on the way home.

Omnivore, it would be great if you can work it out. We can get started and you could arrive whenever your transport allows.

Cheers,
BB

Thanks for the offers look like only college and work are the excuses now :P

Will let you all know Gosford-Epping is doable, and it could give me a nice excuse to try the new Epping-Chatswood rail link. Will have to work out how to do it given I've never met anyone.

As long as you can spot the neon yellow(ish) FT tag on at least one bag, you'll be fine.
I'll have a black TravelPro laptop bag with the tag put on, if this is something that helps.

We will be sitting outside and will have a FT tag on the table, so you will be fine if you can spot a 15 x 3 cm bright yellow tag. :D

I will bring my FT tag too :D.

I might even pin it on Mini DG (oh she will kill me for that ;) )!

Shameless BUMP to keep this on the front page :D

Hope I have not broken any CB rules... :eek:

Please color me Gold. Hope to be able to confirm Platinum in the very near future.

put me down for a maybe +1 dont know what work may bring this far out.

Great - I look forward to seeing chchkiwi and meeting tinkybelle +1, if you can make it.

Attendees updated to post #34 :D.

Darn! Sounds like a great night and a chance to catch up with friends met in CNS ... sadly (?) I'll be in NYC but will raise a glass to y'all ...

Shame you cant make it. Enjoy NYC :D.

pretty sure i can do this
i love those little spring rolls wrapped in lettuce ;)

colour me gold too, be great to catch up with people i know and meet some i have been wanting to meet :)

Excellent, Noelene. You are on my "really want to meet" list :D.

Have put you on the "Maybe" list for now.

Bumpity Bump :D