I went to Botany View Hotel one afternoon, that afternoon turned into an evening and as glasses of house white were had and a chicken fillet ingested, evening turned into hungover morning.
I met up with my brother and a bunch of his friends at the start of the year to celebrate his birthday, they had reserved a couple of tables in the upstairs courtyard for their party.
Unfortunately, the bar is downstairs, as is the kitchen and where you order. Thus, for every new drink you wanted to drink, you had to first pass a series of tests to prove that you deserved said food or drink item.
The first test was the dreaded doorway challenge, you had to successfully open the door from the courtyard to the main part of the hotel, this was a challenge for as the courtyard began to fill up, just getting to the door was an issue, let alone opening it.
The next challenge, should you pass the doorway, was going down the stairs. It's a thin stair case and if someone is coming up with drinks in hand at the same time as you were descending, an issue would arise that could only be resolved by one of you being the bigger man and reversing to allow the other to pass. Given the laws of good etiquette, it is always the drink bearing person that takes priority, and thus the descender must reverse.
The final challenge is getting the drinks and then repeating the first two challenges in reverse, the same issues arise and so the skills you learn going through the first two quests will aid you to complete the final step. read more