Well, this one is going to be a little more brief. The last post took me 2 hours and I don’t fancy a repeat. Thursday and Friday I did a bit of catching up on life.
On Thursday I did some washing etc, where I had another Minties moment – one of my pens went through the wash and leaked. If anybody knows how to get pen ink out of clothes I would be most greatful for the advice. Then in the afternoon I made curried carrot and apple soup for my small group, which I went to in the evening. Somehow I managed to go to the supermarket 3 times over the course of the day. I’m not sure if that is a record or not.
On Friday I ran some general errands, picking up some material for togas for Anna and Me for Danny’s Toga themed bus trip on Saturday. I also picked up my Buzz the Big Quiz pre-order, which we made good use of in the evening. I’m not sure if I should be glad or not that I couldn’t answer the question “Which is the smallest teletubby” correctly… We found out later that Nick would have got that one.
Saturday I tidied my room and took all the clothes which are now to big for me to the clothing bin. Now I have space in my cupboards again. Saturday night was Danny’s bus trip. We got Spags before-hand. Anna, Andy and Me walked into Spags in our togas and the others all left very soon afterwards. (We were late and they’d ordered for us). Somebody at the next table asked us if we’d scared them away. 🙂 I am going to try to get some photos, but don’t have any as yet. I do have one of me trying on my toga on Friday, but it didn’t really look like that for long on Saturday night… I was attacked by Kristyn and somehow ended up with a much more risque “toga” and was dubbed “The Roman Pimp” by people we ran into. I was originally going for Latin Mafia, so possibly not too far off the mark.
We went to 5 bars all over the place and eventually ended up in time where we went to Iconic and danced for a while and eventually went home via KFC, where I attempted to convince the person serving me to sell me a vegetarian salad. I bought it with chicken when they wouldn’t drop the price to remove it. The whole night was a lot of fun.
On Sunday morning I biked over to Danny’s to pick up my car and then went to church. Then round to Mark’s again from whence Andy, Mark, Nick and me went to Cave Stream. The water was quite high, significantly higher than when I went through in March. I was glad I had my wetsuit… Nick ended up not going through as he had no change of clothes. Ran into Matt and Robin there as well. We got through safely eventually, albeit with a few bumps and bruises for some. Quite an adventure. I didn’t realise before we went that I was the only one who had done it before, so the others didn’t really know what they were in for. Twas described as “Cave Raging Torrent” by Mark. Stopped in Springfield to consume hot food and beverages. I had a lamb, rosemary and kumara pie – delicious.
Upon return I was invited to go swimming at QEII, where I eventually arrived at about 7:30 – I drove longer than I swam. The pool closed at 8. Nick, Danny and Dave arrived before me and Dave challenged me to catch up with how far they’d swum which I did eventually, although only had time to swim 700m. The 50m pool takes a bit more effort than the 23m pool at work.
Today I’ve cleaned the toilet, done the dishes, had lunch, uploaded my photos and updated my blog. Doesn’t seem like a lot, but I’ve been busy all day.