Home

We are now back home now but is it our home these days?

Meeting with Preeti

Liz and I met preeti at her apartment we met Ray and her 2 kids Naomi and Neil.

We had lunch out and stayed for tea as well also we did a little walk to the Botanic gardens and fed the fish in the lake

Preeti

Well Liz spoke to preeti again for the first time since 1988.We are going to her house tomorrow when we check out of our hotel and we are having lunch and tea there.

Marina Bay

I dragged Liz out to see the merlion at marina bay

Christchurch To Singapore

On the way to the square to catch our shuttle to the airport we bumped into our old flatmate Minzekatze (Which was cool)

 

 

 

After 10hrs and a bit and being starved we arrived safely in Singapore.

On the way we flew over the southern Alps towards the west coast and could see some of our favourite locations from the sky like Lake Tekapo,Arthurs Pass,Mt Cook,Mt Tasman and even good old Fox Glacier and Lake Matheson.

We are now in Starbucks in Raffles city writing this funny we were here same place last year but heading the other way starting our adventure!!.

Liz is hoping to meet Preeti tomorrow

My 32nd Birthday

Well today is my birthday plus last full day in Christchurch and NZ

We went out and got some last minute photos of our fave haunts:-) Had a last coffee at Escarto our fave coffee place in Cathedral Square!

Mark got me a glass necklace and a lovely birthday card. Got Marks mums cards also, lucky they turned up in time!!

Next time we update we will be in Singapore.

Worn out boots

As you can see my boots are so worn out from all the walking we did I left them behind and so did Liz because her sole came off her boots.

Last Quiz Night

Tonight we did pretty well at 1 part of the quiz we were joint first but in the end we came sixth against 12 teams (beat a load of dumb Americans they were last and they had 6 people)

Dave and Sandra gave us a little present for our last night a box of choccies.

Restaurant Tram

Tonight we are going on the Restaurant Tram for our 6th wedding anniversary.

We had a great time. We had champagne as a welcome drink with bread and dips. For starters we had bbq chicken with chizoi cubes on kebabs and a glass of merlot. Then Rib eye steak for mains with another glass of merlot. Chocolate cream pie for dessert with dessert wine.  Lastly cheeseboard and cup of tea

A Poem I wrote when got home

What Is Like To Be Drunk

I am drunk
I see lots of things

Twinkley lights a plenty
show me the way home

Can hardly type a word
without a spelling mistake

My head around in circles
full of dizziness

Try not to fall asleep
at least till I get home

Sober me up quickly
before I am sick

 

Mark wanted me to post it:-)

Beers

We have compiled a list of all the Beers we have tried in New Zealand

monteiths Beers Monteith's New Zealand Lager golden winter summer black original Celtic Radler Canterbury cd steinlarger pure tui lion red lion brown green man london porter challenegr honey dew twisted ankle dux de lux (Various) Emersons (various)

Speight's Beers gold medal distinction old dark summit pilsner porter flame tasman export gold macs gold sassy red db glenorchy ale the moa killkenny

Last big shop

Today was a bit sad we did our last big shop at Countdown

will miss shopping here and Pac ‘N’ Save and going on the free shuttle.

Update

Just got back from the Regent cinema we watched (A FILM WITH ME IN IT)

also when we were in Hanmer we were speaking to a nice Austrian couple who had just stayed at Ivory Towers where we worked and they thought the staff were unfriendly (have to say this put a BIG smile on our faces)

Hanmer Fun

We are now back from Hanmer Springs. We stayed in a great backpackers called Hanmer Backpacker the owner Edwin was great only 5 weeks in to his new business.

We went to the hot pools it was so much quieter this time so was great we stayed in them for 2 hrs.

Today we did 4 different walking tracks and crazy golf which Liz WON!!!                        

 

We also went on one of these on the Road

Good Day

Today was very good

we went to see our friends at the shop and also posted home some posters.

Just back from Quiz night came last again!! We had an extra team mate called Claire for 5 minutes then she went to another team ha ha missed  out on the free beer.

Also made over $500 when we sold our sleeping bags on Trade Me

booked our trip to Hanmer Springs going this Wednesday

Shopping

Today was great nice and sunny again!! We went to the local market I bought Liz a nice NZ made coat and also we bought a nice photo print of Christchurch.

Tomorrow is Quiz night so wish us luck.

We might be going up to Hanmer Springs this week to spend 1 night there and do some walks.

20 degrees

Today was really warm not that sunny but we had this north westerly warm wind.

Just enjoyed sitting outside The Bog having tea at 6pm with the temperature at 20 degrees.

Found out our quiz friends lost against the other pub on Thursday night

Kiwi vs Israel

Today was well hot so went to the beach and on way back we sat in the square with our kebabs when this kiwi showed up with his sign

some Kiwis have a real problem with israelies as you can see!!

He was kicking the Jewish Bible around saying it was S**T (all this in front of israelies who are on holiday here)

Last Again!!

Haha, we came last again in the pub quiz. But this time we got 4 free pints as Mark fixed the guys computer. :-) We are natural born Losers! And we are drunker than usual today, but we will come back on BUNAC visa for a yr and will try our best to get sponsorship. NZ and Christchurch is the BEST!!!

Hot Rods @ The Square

Today was terrible rain and hail all day but I noticed there was going to be a hot rod rally to the square so I dragged Liz out to see them!!

Rain due to clear tomorrow which is nice we have had plenty of snow on the south Island this weekend but we haven't seen any!!!

Anyway tomorrow is quiz night YEAH FREE BEER

Fire Drama

We were walking home when we saw a big black cloud of smoke round the corner from where we live. We decided to go investigate and discovered it was someone's house on fire as we walked down 3 fire engines came past us. Mark took some photos then we came home. He is emailing them to the press.

Napier Under Siege

Don't know if this on the news in UK

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/2393477/Fresh-gunshots-at-siege-scene

Snows Coming

We had a gorgeous day today but not lasting very long we have snow due tomorrow down to 700m.

Quiz Night

We entered quiz night for the 3rd time and came last as usual. We called ourselves The Usual Losers'  but aswell as free pint we got some nut selections as I(liz) won rock paper scissors :-)

Tekapo Short Break

Well we are now back from Tekapo.

We had a great time we went to the hot pools and watched the sunset also I finally got Elizabeth to Kayak on a lake

she is proud to get over her fear

We wanted to see our friends we worked for but they were away over the weekend.