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sale and serenityPosted on Wed 30 January 2008 at 07:36I dropped Melissa of on Friday evening at the airport with no problems – Donna and Beth came with us, so I was glad of the company and the directions again. Once we got back, Donna came and picked me up and I spent the evening at their house. Copious amounts of alcohol were consumed and we had a good laugh. Thank you for your company Danny and Donna, I had a great evening. Then after work on Saturday (aye, a late night is not conducive to an early start!), I went to Upper Hutt and picked Jac up and we went to Maz’s birthday party. Met all the usual suspects and some new faces too. Again, so nice to feel part of the “Porirua Posse’ and to have the friendship of the expats here. More thank- you’s: this time to Marion and Phil for hosting a fantastic party. Unfortunately, I had to be at work for 7am Sunday morning so that was a bit of a chore, I can tell you. By the time I got home from work, I had to have a brisk lie down! As the girl was still away, I headed off down to Petone on Monday night to visit a mate there. We had a really chilled evening, walked along the seafront, drank loads of coffee, listened to music and ended up doing that gazing at the stars thing you do when you are wired on caffeine and nicotine. I’m sure you know what I mean……about the cosmos in general and your place in the universe and how immense it all is and isn’t it all fantastic etc. yes, you’ve all done it…and it made perfect sense at the time, didn’t it? {just had to come back to add a swift edit at 11.41pm local time: the sky was stunningly clear here at that time. For those of you still in the Uk, we have very little light pollution here and Orion stands on his head. Spectacular sky!} But I stayed really late and it was at least half-past midnight before I headed off. And I was so tired by that point, I completely missed the turnoff for State Highway 1 and kept right on into Wellington and ended up by Aotea Quay before I could get turned round. By the time I finally got home, the road was starting to blur at the edges, so I was relieved to make it without further mishap. And yet again, I had to be up for work……… I wouldn’t change any of it though – I had wondered what I was going to do with myself when she was away – I think I filled my time pretty well eh? Melissa’s flight was delayed yesterday – because her plane had to detour to Palmerston North as the flight to there was cancelled. I find it quite funny – in Britain, you would be extremely lucky to have a bus wait if it saw you running, let alone detour for you but here, they think nothing of detouring a plane! I think it pretty well sums up the laid back attitude to life here, so well done Air new Zealand! And I went all on my own to the airport – I’m so brave and clever these days……..The drive was lovely, now that I feel confident enough to do it solo. She arrived safely and we picked up the most enormous order from Hell’s Pizza on the way home. For those of you who have never tried Hell’s Pizza – I think it is one of the best things ever to come out of New Zealand. I thought that pizza was meant to be deep fried until I was about 15 but this is cracking pizza: I’m on holiday!!! And apart from a small shower this morning, the weather has been brilliant. So hot in fact, I had to retreat indoors. Bliss. But I did go into work today. Only to sign the house sale documents. They faxed them to me, I signed them and faxed them back. They have phoned to confirm they received them and all is in order. So it should all be over and done with tomorrow. The ‘horse lady’ texted me yesterday, so we went up and did a bit of grooming and shit-shovelling today. And will probably do the same tomorrow. It’s really too hot to ride in the afternoons so she said text in the evenings and she will see what is going on. Like I said before, lovely people. 
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