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DAY 8 - WELLINGTON TO NELSON
we have an early start this morning to catch a ferry accross to the south island. nick has already left with the coach on an earlier ferry. they forgot to book the passangers on the ferry with the coach. i so nearly missed the shuttlebus to the ferry port, fortunately my fellow passengers made them wait while steve fetched me from the room. again i miss brekkie.
we getr to the ferry port only to discover that we are delayed a few hours.so we take a shuttle into town and head to the te papa museum. steve, sabine & anne-michelle miss the shuttle and walk to the museum, after around an hour or so's walk they havre to turn back just as they reach the museum as there is no time left. muhahhahahahahah
myself and a few others take a slow hungover stroll towards the museum, i nearly get run over by a cyclist. a new megan joins us from the tour and we witness a minor car crash. no mopeds involved this time. we stop on the way to look at some jellyfish in the water. by the time we get to the museum we have about 10 minutes to look around, i power explore around the museum for a grand total of 2 minutes before venturing over the road to get some brekkie from macdonalds, all hail ronald McD. kate, laurel and joony are already in there. a sausage and egg mcmuffin and a bottle of water was about my limit for food intake this morning, just enough to start to feel human again.
we head back to the ferry port via the shuttle bus and discover that while we have been away grant has experienced multiple vomit attacks. which is nice. we discuss the previous nights drunken activities and grant inexplicably reveals how drunk he was by delaring how he loved it when the live band played come on eileen, this would be great if they had actually sung this song, however they didnt.
we finally board the ferry after even more delays as the walkway to the ferry has broken and we have to board via the vehicle ramps. after a little wander around the boat i try to find somewhere to sleep, my first 2 locations were not suitable, but i eventually found a row of 5 seats on the top deck, i spread out using my bag as a pillow and with my ipod on try to get some well needed sleep, i think i only got about 3 hours last night. i'm out like a light and probably snoring away. i wake up after a couple of hours to discover some fellow tour members taking pictures of me asleep, weirdo's :-). i wake again later to discover a small boy vomiting next to me. which was nice.
just as we are leaving the ferry we discover that the queen is onboard or at least a good lookalike, i use a 10 dollar note and compare faces with the lookalike, yeah close enough.
we finally arrive in the south island, home of mountains, lakes and breathtaking coastlines. we meet up with nick and the coach for even more travelling and head to nelson, which apparently has a really high population of brits. we stop en-route for a walk and luch at pelorus and a quick stop at the warehouse to buy some costumes in preparation for xmas day. the scenery is awesome.
we get to our lodge on tahunanui beach, its called the aloha lodge and from the outside it looks like a big chinese restaurant without the ornate dragons. grant buys a cricket set so there is just enough time for a match before dinner. my batting abilities are quite appauling with lots of swinging bat and very little ball contact. i did however claim a wicket fter a couple of very loud howzzzaaaattt appeals that seem to be slightly out of place for a knock around and no umpire. steve takes the carch and jumps into the air expecting me to catch him, but hey i just drop him on his back, sorry bud.
at dinner tonight joony now informs me that i am now his brother, he also tells me that i only look 21, which is nice.
after dinner we head out to a bar that is just behind the lodge called smugglers inn. we are told to avoid the locals bar as it smells of fish and locals. it's started to rain alittle, but that wont dampen our spirits. boom boom. we stay at the bar for a few drinks but myself, kate, neil, kevin and phillip (the new german guy) decide that we must go into town and drink stupid amounts of booze, well thats the plan.
steve and anne-michelle decide not to come to the town centre, and then promptly change thier minds just after we had left in the taxi, we shall see them in about 2 and a half hours time when they make the walk to town.
we get to bar called grumpy mole and start playing the locals at pool. phillip goes for a dance for a while and then goes home. we play some more pool, drink some more a chat alot before kate administers wormies. you dirty ***.
steve and anne-michelle eventually arrive, we were quite surprised to see them and we head of to a new bar called sharks for more pool and drinks. neil decides we are drinking too slowly and we end up getting long island ice t with extra alcohol. the barmaid enquires that we really do realise that the big jug is 3 quarters full with just spirits, which is nice. very shortly later we are quite rat-arsed.
next task is a taxi, this is proving quite difficult, thanks to kevin who has this amazing ability to grab a taxi from 100 paces. in the meantime both kate and annemichelle suffer at the hands of arse slap happy locals before we head back, forcing neil to leave the queue for his burger. strangely we are joined in our minicab by a brit couple who live over here, how did they get in????
no activities tomorrow so i may get a lie in. again another post 3.30 bed time.
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