A night at the movies....

Thought i would share another little surprise activity the Manly Seabirds experienced last Wednesday night at training. Now firstly let me make it clear that we train every Wednesday night from season start to season end – even if we have the bye then weeks of away games ahead of us OR if Origin is on – the Manly Seabirds still train. No rest for the wicked they say! So seeing as we are all so use to this routine and know no different it’s a shock when things get shaken up a little.

We also have a training dress code at Manly and are supplied with a variety of different tops to wear (which are uber adorable) and our outfits each week consist of a crop top, bike shorts, stockings and shoes. Even on the coldest of nights we still have to make this outfit combo work for us – so the colder it gets the harder we work in order to stay warm! Yep. She’s a total drill sergeant that Monique Carroll – haha. I kid I kid.

So when we all got a message saying to “please make sure you rug up in warm comfy clothes to training” – it immediately set little sirens off in our heads that we were in for something new. I instantly thought “uggghhh its a field rehearsal on quite possibly the coldest & wettest night in history” and many of the other girls had similar scenarios floating around in their minds on what exactly lay ahead for us. So when we arrived at the rehearsal studio and found that the doors were locked but yet the lights were on and we could hear mumbling from the inside we were all thrown for six. What was she doing in there??

When the doors finally opened and Monique popped her head out of the door we didn’t know what to expect – until we saw the room had been set up as a CINEMA with a complimentary dinner & candy bar service to boot!!! Oh yeh – Hallelujah for the break night!

Monique had set up a runway of pom poms which led us to our allocated seating to then sit back, relax, eat and enjoy all the moments we have experienced so far as a squad this year. We were treated with viewing all the images from our bikini shoot day along with many other fun game day memories and then it was a movie night. And holy moly let me tell you – there were some absolute stunning images that flashed before our eyes.

eeekk I may be biased but im saying it anyway - some of the girls images were just spectacular and all round yummy yummy uber delish! Monique succeeded yet again in pulling off another of her “Mayyyyjah” surprises for us all and we couldn’t be more thankful!

Manly Seabirds enjoying Movie Night

Runway of pom poms leading to the seabird cinema - cute huh?!

Bre-u-tiful doing her thing!!

Alex shaking her poms sideline

The always Babe'n Belle

Amy, Prue and Bre

Rookies Serena, Demi, Amy, Gabby

Amy H being her adorable self

Amy and myself

Cute little lollie bags

While reminiscing on our summer shoot it got me thinking... with the Sea Eagle being our team mascot we really struck it lucky in the fabulous feathered wings department. The wings are such a glamorous statement piece and they just add such a wow factor as they look so bright, fluffy and fierce in the sun!

Here I am enjoying the sun in my most favourite accessorie - the wings!!

Which made me wonder: which other club could get away with adding some of their Mascots magic into the mix? And i could actually see a few clubs being able to do it.

BUT. My most fave would have to be the Dragons and the possibility of getting their “Game of Thrones” on and stepping out in Dragon Wings. Oh la la could you imagine? Holy Khaleesi!! It would be taking the “flames” to a whole new level!

Khaleesi - the mother of dragons

Just a thought. Let it simmer. You’ll be feeling it soon! Oh yeh.

xx