A sobering thought

First day back at work today. What a struggle. Life just isn't as shiny without sunshine and champagne!

Looking back at my previous posts I realise just how tired and hungover (possibly even still drunk) I was when I wrote them. Ahh, good memories. I didn't put in much detail though by the looks of things - probably because most of it's too naughty to put in writing :-)

Some of my better photos are shown here, but I didn't take as many as I thought. Hopefully the other girls have some good shots too.

Gridmodels did quite well in promoting itself - we have got our pictures from the Friday shoot on several websites, and we even got a small shot in the Red Bulletin although it wasn't quite what we were hoping for. It was a pic from Barry's 70th party, when everyone clearly thought we were the hired booty. Nadine even did a Marilyn and sang happy birthday to him in her husky voice. We were rewarded with a lobster dinner though, and one of us was rewarded with a handsome young man - no names needed!

Here are some of the links:

http://www.formulapod.com/?m=1&s=21&r=

http://www.suttonimages.com/fotoweb/searchresultposters.fwx?folderid=5009&hidefc=1&search=f7141

http://www.formula1.com/race/news/6128/774.html

http://www.planet-f1.com/gallery/0,18973,3524_2152002_0,00.html

http://www.rodcollins.com

http://www.itv-f1.com/Home.aspx

http://www.redbulletin.com - Saturday issue

We met some really interesting and fun people while we were there. It's amazing the variety of wealth business-men there are, most of them self-made with a tale or two to tell. We met everyone from bankers to nightclub owners, to bottled water magnates. One man we met at Les's party announced very nocholantly that he was off to buy a yacht the next day - I'm guessing he wasn't going to put it on his credit card!

The funny thing is, that because everyone is wealthy it stops being novel and you see all the men and women on an equal footing. Some just want to talk about their money and the others want to have fun with it! No man can use the 'Can I buy you a drink' chat up line at a Monaco party because they're all complimentary anyway!

The nice family who gave us a lift in their boat on Saturday morning when security was so tight we couldn't get to Trevor's yacht to get our stuff, turned out to own the Kingfisher boat where the amazing party was on Sunday night. They were such a nice kind group, offering us a lift without any questions, and they damn well know how to throw a good bash. I think their boat was completely trashed afterwards though. oops!

It's so exciting to be in Monaco for the race days, the atmosphere is really buzzing. Everyone seems to be high on life, though they're probably just high on rose, the new water in the south of France.

Time to book a week in Monaco for the same time next year!