A lovely long extended weekend that went past way too fast.
All started on thursday evening and driving up to nottingham. Spent a lovely relaxing day in nottingham, a bit of shopping, and whilst rachel was at uni in the aftenoon i relaxed. We had tea and drove back down to london/essex. Saturday and the birthday day. Opened my pressies from Rachel in bed, and decided to have a long lay in. During the afternoon i took Rachel to sample the delights of Southend sea front where after being there for half an hour it began to snow quite heavily

but i treated her to a walk along the front, and few go's on the slot machines AND a doughnut! I mean, what more does a girl want! anyone would have thought it was her b-day!
Came back from there, had tea and got ready for the night. Started off by having a "few" drinks in town first and then jumped on the tube to the end. We got there about quarter past 11 and there was a huge queue for non ticket holders, but luckily none what so ever for tickets holders so in we went.
We were greeted by the sounds of Bushwacka who was playing from 10 till 1 and he done a very good job in getting the place ready for Sven. Very "DC-10ish". Perfect. Sven came on at 1 and the the place was jumping. The atmosphere was incredible, the crowd was great, the music was awesome and i really apprecited how good a venue the end is and how great the sound system is. Come 3 o clock and sven was in full flow and the place was goin crazy. People dancing on the dj booth. Sven was knocking out this great techno music with deep deep basslines, and they way the music flowed was just incredible. But the highlight of the night for me HAS to be when he played Knights of Jaguar. I truly love that song!! Afer that he played a bit more melodic, and dare i say it trancier, yet still with that tardemark techno edge to it. Awesome.
The dj booth in the end is great, and was soo great to see sven really having a great time, looked like he was really enjoying himself. Was also great to see that even at 6:30 the main room was still rammed, no-one was going anywhere!.
Full marks to the end for not over ramming the club meaning that there was always that little bit of space to dance. Great to spend time with Jon and Becki. The end is a great club for this type of night, and i can see why the dc10 party was such a good night.
Sunday we relaxed and went out for a lovely Thai meal. And today we went to bluewater to spend some of my b-day money and get some cd's............
.............And Rachel has just gone.

All in all the best birthday i've had in a long time!!