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Published: January 10th 2009
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getting Christmassy in the van on Monday in hunua for christmas, lets hope the rain holds off for christams day!!
team: bruce, me, kate, karl, adam, taz (shes back for xmas and new year), amelie, jin, ray, george (shes beltin, a tad mental too :D), lukas (full team this week!)
MON - went to office before we left for hunua to collect our plane tickets for south island >:[ said bye to the other team and happy christmas the off we went. cleared out water tables when we got there along cossey damn track, not too bad, caught up with what taz had been doing in her time away then finished early. bruce had brought up an xmas tree :D so after dinner we decorated it and had xmas fun, got right in the mod, a really really good evening :D kate had xmas songs on her mp3 so it just made it 😊 yay
TUES - checked rat lines today - different to bait lines as they go straight through the bush, they dont tend to go the easier routes, fun! wa son karls team and we finished really early (12.45ish) so i read twilight until the others came back, shattered, dirty and sweaty -
they had an encounter with a wasp's nest!! if that had been me i would have been in a right state but they were mostly laughing about it! kate got stung 10 times, adam 9 and taz 4! not nice! went to clevedon once they had showered for xmas treats (i found some marzipan in the chocolate shop there :DDD) cooked with george and amelie then went off to finish adams present (bought him a map of nz and drew memorable stuff on the places he'd been)
WEDS (christmas eve) - baitlines today, in the morningn i took adam and taz around two tracks then did two others with taz and george. raining, i hope this isnt new zealand trying to make me feel at home for christmas (british xmas weather and all!!) when we got back scotty and john (rangers) had started the xmas eve bbq for us and the other local vols, was lovely, al of us outside (under the shelter) for an xmassy bbq 😊 ate crap for the rest of the afternoon mind (cookies galore, christmas has set in) and finished twilight. in the evening we played paper games (ie everyone writes a bit of
a story and we reveal it at the end, some funny outcomes!!) just before bed, kate gathered us (me, adam, karl and bruce) to give us our xmas prezzies, she had knitted us awesome stockings - hence giving them on xmas eve! sweet as 😊
THURS (christmas day) - up at about 10, mmm nice, never get a lie in in hunua!! then through to the living room with kate, karl and adam for our xmas prezzies, kate had filled the stocking full of choc, so had a few for brekki... :D adam got us 3 a box of useful stuff and things relating to what we had done ie a roll of celotape (of love) taken from flight of the conchords :D kate got me a thumb ring (as i did her) and karl wrote a letter for us, made me cry!! i think they were all pleased with what i had got them (adams map, karl fake tattoos nz theme and kate thumb ring then a letter for each on the back of a photo of us in a bauble! - also did one of them for bruce) weather was great!! it rained all the britishness out
yesterday! so we had hot sun!!! wow!! a hot christmas! after lunch - ray and bruce cooked a massive roast, yorkshire pud and everything, was stuffed!! - me, kate, karl and adam went for a walk down to the damn, was sweet as 😊 found a really weird thing in a bank, sounded like an alien screaming at us but it was coming from a birds hole...weird and freaky!! went back up to the house and me and karl played cards whilst adam an dkate snoozed. had cheese and biscuits for tea, mmm i bought brie and cranberries 😊 rang home at about 10.30 😊 got to chat to mum n dad, andrew and auntie sheila and uncle danny! yay!
FRI (boxing day) - normal work day, infact a bit more work than a normal friday! me kate and adam did the cossey damn track baitline down to the falls, met up with the rest and did a litter pick at the falls where loads of people had gone for xmas day. kiwis are so tidy!! i swear if that had been a litter pick in uk there would be stuff everywhere!! there was hardly anything! after that we
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Adam's leaf blower... went to the office ot bag poison and then home. did the weekends shop (the internet shop wouldnt deliver as it was xmas) then got dropped at acb for the weekend ( we forgot to get the milk, cheese and juice out of the van 😞 ) shower, food, partied the night away!
SAT - woke up feeling fine, good job as had a tattoo today! went to brooklyn bar for lunch with kate karl and adam, yummy massive burgers!! kept getting twangs of nervousness for the impending tattoo... went along to ballistic and got inked up, was surprisingly unpainful for behind the ear, i was expecting something as painful as my ankle! i got pretty bored infact and extremely uncomfortable in the position i had to sit in, my head crooked off to the left, really strained it! afterwards, messed around a bit with taz, kept checking in on adam who was getting his. went into acb and bumped into justin and jb who were waiting for aaron to wash his newly shaded tattoo (he got most of it last weekend and finished today) its beautiful, maori with a hint of celtic in it i think from what
i remember! when adams tat was finished we (taz adam, kate karl) went to see twilight in the cinema, what a let down, it was awful (dont watch it) after, adam packed and we walked him to the bus stop so he could go to the airport and home. :*( i cried, a lot, really dont want him to go, i wont see him again for aaaaages!!! boooooooooooooo!
SUN - up early to check out, put luggage in storage then went to the house to get what i needed for the south and dump stuff i wouldnt need, bought the other 3 books of the twilight series (exciting stuff) just missed aaron, justin and jb off on their travels 😞 damn it! then pissed around on the internet waiting to go to the airport to fly to christchurch. flight was pretty good, only 1.5hrs, flew over the mountains at the top of the south island, i got very excited at that, feels more like a holiday that me kate and karl are taking... the hostel in christchurch is really nice, proper old lift like the ones in titanic (pull the grating ove rth edoor etc.) our room had a
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setting up the cameras for a group photo double bed! which karl immediately stole, we had duvets and everything!! so comfy! chch was empty, and very warm, we went for a stroll to find food, didnt - being 11pm - and then to bed (hungry)
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