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Sun, sand & some serious competition

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This past Sat, 24 teams battled it out for the prestigious annual Café Caprice Volleyball tournament trophy.

Prizes included Sunglass Hut sunglasses, Havaianas vouchers and Havana Club beach kits.  But the true prize of course is the bragging rights.  :)

The lovely people from Caprice made sure people were refreshed, well fed and sun protected with yummy Red Bull mocktails being served at the beach bar, tasty mini burgers (which I missed sadly cause I only got there too late) and lovely ladies walking the beach handing out free sunscreen.

Weather wise it was the perfect day -  slightly overcast which gave you some relief from the sun every now and again, but still nice and hot.  The following 2 pics set the scene quite well:

Stunning right?  The beauty of our beaches continues to blow me away.  They are truly world class and in my personal opinion (and experience) totally trumps even those of Brazil and Thailand.

Anyhoo, the tournament consisted of 5 a side games, scheduled for 2 sets of 7min each (with the teams swapping sides after the 1st set).  My boy Bjorn and his friends, known as the Virgin daiquiris started out very strong, cruising through the early rounds without really breaking a sweat.

In between games Bjorn even made some time to do some Sunglass Hut marketing. (I think we was trying to ensure free sunnies whether they won or not. That’s good planning. ;) )

The sunscreen is supposed to say “SGH” for Sunglass Hut of course

Team spirits remained high as they blew the competition out of the water and made it to the quarter finals with ease…

It was easy to see why though.  Just check out that defense!  Nothing was gonna get past this team:

The Virgin daiquiris was the only team who had as many as 3 ladies in the team.  Some might say that was a risk, but I say that’s what gave them the edge.  Just look at Karin’s impressive smashing skills for example:

You might be thinking “Hey K, why weren’t you in the team? You seem fit and amazing and gorgeous and stuff…” ;)    Well you see, I have a “volleyball disability” – from a very young age I was the ball-smashed-in-the-face girl.   And no, I’m not talking about those kind of balls.  Get your minds out of the gutter.  I’m obviously referring to balls used in sports.  For example, I could be in a crowd of like a thousand people.  There would be no ball in sight.  I’d turn around and then – WHAM – right in the face.  My mom’s dreams of me becoming a SA netball champion were crushed.  Due to this problem, I now flinch just at the mention of the word “volleyball”.  This clearly equates to pretty crappy playing skills.  So there you go… my truly sad back story… sob sob…

Back to the tournament, there was also a prize for the best dressed team.  Some folks went all out, like these dudes who looked like they were wearing pajamas:

They must have been bloody boiling! Bjorn’s friend, Nick, noted that it would be pretty damn embarrassing to loose against a team wearing PJ “onesies”. I thought he made a very good point…

The guys who took the prize in the end were these brave, leopard print legging clad gentlemen:

Like totes hot right now…

The daiquiris didn’t have time to play dress up – they were there for one thing and one thing only… winning!  They smashed through the quarter finals and then the semi-finals and winning scores like this one just became the norm really:

My pic of the day has to be this one.  Love how the clouds in the sky was doing this awesome striped effect:

Love how Jared also looks like he’s about to do a very intricate dive maneuver. Score? Perfect 10!

Throughout the tournament, Bjorn certainly proved that white men can in fact jump… even when you’re not totally blessed in the “beanpole” arena.

Some seriously slick moves there…

In the end, not even the finals was a threat for the Virgin daiquiris’ kick-ass skills.  They came out on top, smiling all the way.

Let’s take a closer look at that beaut of a trophy:

Oooooh aaaaaah

Well done guys!  Obviously you couldn’t have done it without my support though.  So if anyone wants to gift one of those free pairs of sunnies, please feel free. :)

Who knows, maybe I’ll get over my ball-in-the-face fear and give this a bash next year.  Then again… that would require a lot of practice… hmmm… I’m more of a chillin’ with cocktail in hand girl… nah, rather just play to my strengths.

xxx

The Cosmo Swimwear show

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Last Tue, after the GQ Magazine pool party, we headed over to The Grand Café & Beach in Granger Bay for the Cosmopolitan Swimwear 2011 fashion show.  The theme for the evening was “sultry summer” – so I finally had an opportunity to wear this cute bright blue strapless dress I bought back in June at Zara in Rome.  Yeah! (yes – it was a bit chilly & yes – I did freeze my ass off. But no pain no gain hey.)

The venue was packed and kitted out Brutal Fruit style – as they were the main sponsor for the event – with free Brutal Fruit all night long and an awesome chill spot to put your feet up.

Katy Perry’s sexy pussycats were also on the scene to promote her new perfume, Purr:

I wear this exact outfit at home while watching TV. Such a coincidence!

The fragrance notes include:  Sweet peach nectar, green bamboo, apple, white Jasmine blossom, Bulgarian roses, vanilla orchid, amber, sandalwood & musk.  Sjoe – that’s a mouth full… And it all equated to being just waaaaaay to sweet for me. I prefer something more subtle.

Next I headed over to the Rimmel area where I was treated to some free eyeshadow & mascara.  The PE girl in me always jumps for joy when it comes to freebies.  It’s ingrained in my genetics to lap up any opportunity for free stuff, even if it happens to be something totally hideous or useless to me.  Luckily this time round, that wasn’t the case. :)

Loved the daisy lights

We settled into our seats and waited for the show to kick off.  For the show opener they got hot drumming act, 1st Project, to get the crowd going:

I’m sure there were a lot of women in the audience who didn’t even realise that they were playing music. hehe

This was followed by… well… you guessed it… hot chicks wearing very little ;) :

Made me promise myself that I’m going to start taking gym seriously again

But the lovely people at Cosmo at least thought of us girls as well and made sure there were lots of guy candy to oogle as well:

Only a real man can rock a silver speedo

Mid show they had this amazing acrobatic act consisting of two super strong ladies doing all kinds of hectic balancing acts:

The boys agreed that this act was a huge turn on…  wow, who woulda thought…

Now I have to admit, the lighting and our positioning did make it hard to get really good shots.  Hence the blurriness in a lot of the pics.  But I did manage to snap this pic which just worked out to be absolute perfection:

Should sell this baby to Roxy for sure…

After the show, Bjorn & Siv (amazing stand up comic, actor and all round awesome dude. You owe me big time for this punt btw Siv… :) ) put some serious thought into who they thought rocked their bathing suits the best…

Swimwear judging… a tough job…

I let them do their thing while I was mingling with celebrity specialist, Clayton Morar and Mr Fitness & owner of DRANGED clothing, Jeff Tsoutsos:

After all the tough schmoozing, we hit the dance floor to bust out some epic moves.  As you’ll see from this pic below – the dance floor was buzzing:

It’s rare that events like these actually get people dancing.  So this was really cool to see.

My final free stuff tally for the evening also included a Sunglass Hut voucher.  I have like 4 of these now.  The real sucky thing is that you can’t use them together.  Aaargggh.  I guess I’m totally being forced into buying 4 pairs then.  Like I really needed an excuse. Ha!

My voucher and my Rimmel goodies

As I sadly had to work the next morning, we couldn’t party the night away (as much as I would have loved to)… But we couldn’t leave before Bjorn & Siv first got down to a bit of “surfing”:

This is Cape Town style surfing – you don’t actually go in the water. Why? Cause it’s too bloody cold, that’s why! hehe

One thing’s for certain – Cosmo knows how to throw a great party.  Had such an awesome time.  Sometimes these events can end up being stuffy and boring, but this one sure as hell was anything but.

xxx

The GQ magazine pool party

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On Tue evening Bjorn and I popped in at the GQ Magazine pool party on the uber chic pool deck at the always impressive Table Bay hotel.

Yeah, that’s just how I roll…

The dress code was “white hot” (or something like that) – now usually Capetonians are super lazy when it comes to dress up themes, so we didn’t quite stick to it…  but seems that was a serious FAIL on our parts as everyone decided to play along for once!  Go figure.

Some people were a bit more daring with their outfits than others.  Case in point Mr Speedo over here:

I’m sexy and I know it ;)

It was a bit chilly out, but he was faking it well. I bet you he went home and soaked in a piping hot tub for a few hours to defrost. hehe.

I was starving, so I almost jumped the poor waiter when he walked past with these tasty mini burgers:

Yes, they were a bitch to eat and I ended up with sauce on my face.  But I didn’t care.

Other cool snacks were these little cups of seriously yum chicken stir-fry.  Actually we had to hunt these down.  We kept seeing empty trays move past us and we were feeling some serious FOMO (that’s Fear Of Missing Out for those not in the know).  Eventually we begged one of the waiters to see if there was some left over in the kitchen.  He came back 15min later, stir-fry in hand and our hero for the evening. :)

Love this guy!

We got some complimentary champers to enjoy and listened to the musical stylings of DJ René – that old French dude who happens to love his flowy white 100% cotton wear (so he didn’t really need to make an effort to fit in).  Now I don’t hate this guy, I’m just bored of seeing him absolutely everywhere.  Seems he’s the easy option for any event/party/wedding in town.  It’s like this: “Ooooh, I wonder who’s going to be….” and then “Oh, that guy”. ;)

We couldn’t stay too long as we also had the Cosmo Swimwear show to get to, but on the way out we each got treated to a goodie bag filled with all the things you might need to get you beach ready:

GQ mag, sunnies, travel size Eucerin skin goodies, sunscreen, a Havaianas key ring, Piz Buin peak cap and a Sunglass Hut voucher.

I really do wish we could have stayed a bit longer – we also noticed on the way out that there was a jacuzzi.  Now that could have been awesome…  But hey, it’s only the beginning of the summer party season, hopefully there will still be lots of pool party opportunities to come.

xxx