The Seven's

For those of you who don’t know what the sevens is, it is when various nations get seven rugby players together to play rugby in various countries around the world. These teams descended on Wellington at the weekend for the two day tournament, which is actually a two day drinking tournament!!

Wellington erupts when the sevens are in town, there was a parade on Thursday of all the different teams and they all get involved in different stuff around town. The first day of the tournament is a Friday and we headed down to the stadium after work (even though it started after 1) the majority of people dress up for the sevens in a variety of costumes, although the crowd of Al’s friends I was with didn’t want to dress up so we went as boring accountants!! We didn’t go to hard out on the drinking stakes the first day as Saturday is a long day too, so we sat down and soaked up only a few drinks and the electric atmosphere until it starts to lash rain, which at that point we dived for cover.

The Saturday’s weather was much much better and we had to slap on the sunscreen big time. This day was much better than the Friday the atmosphere is different, more people are dressed up, more people are drunk and the games themselves are more exciting. I spent the day aisle hopping to see various friends all over the stadium (a practice that is common at the Seven’s) and drinking way to much wine, we were too wasted at the end of the tournament (which Fiji won) that we didn’t head into town afterwards but home instead!