Given how late I left packing for
this holiday (who am I kidding – that is how I do things like packing to go on
holiday) unlike Al who had things organised ages before me, this morning I was
a bit like a headless chook at times – sort of felt like I was chasing my tail
– going into rooms and forgetting why I went there.
K had to work and so was going to
ask to do 10 min breaks which generally would mean she would be finished by
about 1.30. We got a message saying she
was only finishing at 2pm. We were
already in the carpark (we were more than a little early !!!) – so we chatted
and waited and waited and waited. Poor
bugger came running down the hill at about 2.45 – so upset because she was late
but luckily we are understanding parents who have worked more than our share of
jobs where we don’t control what time things happen. We still had more than enough time to stop at
Grill’d for a late lunch early dinner as we weren’t getting a meal on the
plane.
She dropped us at the airport and
said she wouldn’t come in with us – I had thought she would be keen to stay
just to make sure we actually left but maybe she realised we were too excited
about going and there was no way we weren’t going to leave !!! Anyway, she kissed us, jumped in the car and
headed off to two weeks at home with no parents nagging her to do anything
(although I did send emails and sms’s reminding her about what she needed to do
and to make sure that, whatever she did while we were away, was cleaned up, put
away or fixed before we got back !!)
Waiting to board
Sunset as we are leaving
Our plane
We had an uneventful flight and
were able to get exit row seats which is always good because of the extra leg
room – in this case I wasn’t sure there was extra leg room to go with the
responsibility of manning the exits but Al assured me that, had we been in the
other rows, we would have had even less leg room.
We arrived in Christchurch about
20 mins early so picked up our car and headed for the hotel. The lady at Hertz said that Arthur’s Pass was
clear and that they weren’t expecting anymore snow until possibly the end of
next week. For some reason when she
asked how many drivers there would be I said 1, so Al is going to have to do
all the driving while we are here(which is generally what happens anyway but if
for some reason he hadn’t wanted to drive, he was stuck driving anyway !!)
Our Rav 4 - a really good ride for us
The silver fern in Al's coffee
We found our hotel without too
much trouble – man, it was cold outside.
Think the car said it was 4deg outside !!!!! The hotel was toasty warm although not sure
what temp – said to Al that it would have been good to know how warm it was so
that we knew what temp to set other heaters when we used them !!!!
We watched some of the Olympics
and went to sleep at about 1am.
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