happy new year
well... I've made it back to christchurch after my visit to Auckland to hang out with my folks.
Christmas was spent with Joff and Chris at our house, I went with Chris to have breakfast with his folks. Spent the afternoon helping pack away joff's things and sort my own shit out for Auckland. The car started to make unhappy noises and steam... (i think).
This is my brothers car, my old white beast is now living in a wreckers yard. So yeah, now i have his car, and his car's problems. Well... we don't know what exactly is wrong, but the day the change of ownership papers came through it started with the problems. I think it's me, not the cars.
Anyway, in the pouring rain, my brother dropped me off at the airport so we didn't manage a proper goodbye, which sucks. Hopefully I'll see him again soon... (excuse for a holiday in Melbourne methinks)
Auckland was hot, did lots of shopping and sewing and swam at the beach every day. Overall it was really busy. New years was a bit crap. The plan changed multiple times, and although it was nice, but not very exciting. First I was going to go into the city and go to see some music in town. Then the transport became an issue which couldn't be resolved. Damn my parents for being so far north. So idea 2 was going to aoeta square with Mum and Dad and seeing the live music and fireworks from there. (crap music mind you)
then on the night, I was still sitting in front of the sewing machine at 9pm... Mum was tired and grumpy... so the plan became a trip to devonport and to watch the fireworks with chocolates and champagne on the waterfront. .
So that's what we ended up doing, no problem parking considering the number of people with the same idea. Fireworks were kinda crappy.... the champagne was average so we went back to the car and set off home. over 2 hours later we pulled up at home, and pretty much gave up on the rest of the night.
so... that was pretty much Auckland. Arrived back in the heat and bused to Caroline's who had my house keys and dropped me home (yay for awesome best friends like that). So now i'm sitting on the couch watching the living channel attempting to unpack my suitcases and sweltering in the heat and wondering where the heck chris is.... He was meant to be back from his road trip yesterday...
Christmas was spent with Joff and Chris at our house, I went with Chris to have breakfast with his folks. Spent the afternoon helping pack away joff's things and sort my own shit out for Auckland. The car started to make unhappy noises and steam... (i think).
This is my brothers car, my old white beast is now living in a wreckers yard. So yeah, now i have his car, and his car's problems. Well... we don't know what exactly is wrong, but the day the change of ownership papers came through it started with the problems. I think it's me, not the cars.
Anyway, in the pouring rain, my brother dropped me off at the airport so we didn't manage a proper goodbye, which sucks. Hopefully I'll see him again soon... (excuse for a holiday in Melbourne methinks)
Auckland was hot, did lots of shopping and sewing and swam at the beach every day. Overall it was really busy. New years was a bit crap. The plan changed multiple times, and although it was nice, but not very exciting. First I was going to go into the city and go to see some music in town. Then the transport became an issue which couldn't be resolved. Damn my parents for being so far north. So idea 2 was going to aoeta square with Mum and Dad and seeing the live music and fireworks from there. (crap music mind you)
then on the night, I was still sitting in front of the sewing machine at 9pm... Mum was tired and grumpy... so the plan became a trip to devonport and to watch the fireworks with chocolates and champagne on the waterfront. .
So that's what we ended up doing, no problem parking considering the number of people with the same idea. Fireworks were kinda crappy.... the champagne was average so we went back to the car and set off home. over 2 hours later we pulled up at home, and pretty much gave up on the rest of the night.
so... that was pretty much Auckland. Arrived back in the heat and bused to Caroline's who had my house keys and dropped me home (yay for awesome best friends like that). So now i'm sitting on the couch watching the living channel attempting to unpack my suitcases and sweltering in the heat and wondering where the heck chris is.... He was meant to be back from his road trip yesterday...