Hash – 12 January 2007

Today’s Hash was in the middle of nowhere - Wadi el-Gawari. We had to meet at the ACE club early and there were more people and less cars than usual. Luckily there were quite a few of the big four wheel drivers that fit 7 or 8 people in them.

The trip out to the RV site took longer than normal…about an hour. We also had to travel in a caravan of cars coz hardly anyone knew where to go.

Once we got there we could have been on the moon – there was nothing but light coloured sand and rocks for miles. Both the walk and the run had checks at the Pharonic Dam. It was pretty cool to see the rocks that were worn away by the passage of the water.

The walk was really nice. One steep bit then a gentle meandering. The circle was really good this week. The official RA (religious advisor) wasn’t there and John (Doggie Style) who normally fills in wasn’t there either. So Wesley did most of the talking, then handed it over to Kim (who used to be part of the committee a few years back I think). There were lots of songs - Leeanne and I were called into lead everyone in a new song, but we had to get Rebecca (another hasher) to help us. We decided we really need to get our shit together. No one is singing the same words or at the same time!

I sold raffle tickets… harassed everyone, sold lots. As I sold them, I was called into the circle for them to be drawn so ended up having about 4 down downs. There were loads of down downs. There was one for people who’d been in Cairo for a long time (about 12 people up there). One for people with tattoos - I didn’t go up for that one, no one knows I’ve got a tattoo yet. That was pretty funny actually, Wesley was asking who had tattoos and he asked Chris who responded ‘no tattoos, just a piercing’ when Wesley said to show it, he said it wasn’t in a public showable place! Everyone was laughing their heads off. There ended up being LOADS of people in the circle – an awful lot of people have tattoos!

I can’t remember what the rest of them were for, but there were loads of down downs – it was one of the best circles I’ve been to.

The only downside off course was the long journey home. Especially as we got caught in a traffic jam because trucks were being checked as they went through one point of the road.

We were going to go to the On On which was at Aler’s house. But after a late last night and knowing that next weekend will be big (party Thursday night, plus 1400th hash so big deal on Friday) we decided to call it a night. All in all a very enjoyable day.