Delays leading to apathy and memory loss

Well, it’s becoming kind of hard to muster enthusiasm to post about everything I did over the summer. The task just appears to keep getting bigger. I’m thinking I may have to cut my losses and just hit some of the high points in this post and refer you to other sources to avoid duplication of effort.

Well, In this post, I promised that I would post later about all the things I listed. Some of them don’t really appear to be worth posting more on, like going to the movies… Others merit a lot more attention than they are going to end up getting. I have already posted about my new surf here, but I’ll run through some of the others quickly.

The exponents concert was great although my ears were ringing for a long time afterwards. Definitely some anthems in there. We went to Sophie’s for tea beforehand. I had a Ned Kelly Steak Burger I think.

Rich and Lindsey’s wedding was also very cool. I’m sure I saw photos of it on the web somewhere, and after a little searching and some lucky autocompletion I have found the link for your viewing pleasure.

Our family holiday in Queenstown was also great. I feel kind of bad writing so little about it, but it was very memorable for everyone concerned. Highlights not visible in the well-captioned photos describing the rest of the trip would include kayaking in hail on Milford Sound and the reaction we got when my parents realised the 5-star hotel room Louise was showing them through was where they would be staying that night (25th Wedding anniversary).

Now we move on to events since that post, and there have been many. As mentioned, I flew up to Hamilton for a week. Merodie, Craig and me went tramping on the day after we arrived, through some of the heaviest rain that had fallen in the region for some time. (Not a small amount considering this is the Waikato we are talking about.) However, as the rain was very warm, we didn’t even don jackets. There was a break for about an hour or two in the middle of the tramp, during which we had our lunch and saw an aptly named widowmaker plant fall out of a tree about 20m from where we were sitting. The following day was amazingly fine though, resulting in a bit of sunburn, as I had decided that sunscreen was an unnecessary item to carry up the hill due to the previous days inclement weather. Here’s the link to the photos from the tramp again.

The following day we made our way to parachute which was also a great time in the sun with friends and great music and more. Captioned photos here. Twas great to catch up with people I hadn’t seen for ages and just hang out in the crazily hot weather.

On the Tuesday after Parachute I visited Hazel and Baby Jordan, followed by flying back to Christchurch where I met my new flatmate Emilee, after initially wondering who the visitor in our lounge was…

Camping at Mt. Cook the following weekend was great too.  A nice walk up the Hooker valley track, where I made stream where there was no stream before.  (Just to clarify, I did this by diverting water down a different course).  I named it Luuk stream.  Most original I know.  I actually got quite a decent flow going.  I think Andy took a video of the flow starting, so badger him if you know him and want to see that. 🙂 – I must remember to do that.  Apart from that, and what is shown in the photos, I’m going to weasel out of it by saying “What happens camping stays in the camping”.  I also know that makes no sense, but I can’t be bothered working out how to word it better and you know what I mean.

Then, this weekend just been I was away again at the Navs start of the year leaders camp at Glen Tui.  This was another great time, a bit of a renewal of focus, as well as some good adventures.  Bush bashing up a nearby hill was a lot of fun, although the long list of people who injured themselves on the way may take a different view.  A knee that required 5 stitches, 2 damaged wrists and about 4 wasp stings are the specific injuries I can remember people having, although I think everybody had at least a few scratches.  I may (note the lack of a promise) post more about some of the things the camp got me thinking about in a later post.

In closing, I’ll say that I can relate to Mark’s latest confusionism, especially with all the busyness of late.  If you don’t know what I’m talking about, I’ll leave finding that out as your homework.