Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Time to Say Farewell

So today began, and was, much like yesterday. I got up early, and went to check some things at the front desk. We were changing rooms for the night and I wanted to make sure what times we needed to move. I picked up our new keys and let Margaret sleep in until it was a more reasonable time to move. During my visit to the front desk I also scheduled a shuttle to take us to the airport tomorrow morning... at 4... ewwwww...

Anyway, during my morning I was watching a bit of English Premier League, Chelsea vs someone..., and experienced a bit of an aftershock (which Christchurch has been getting many of recently), and it was strong enough to shake the building. I'll admit... at first I did not think it was an aftershock. It happened to occur IMMEDIATELY after Chelsea scored their first goal of the match. My first reaction was that there were a lot of people celebrating. Common consensus in the room (and looking it up) showed that it was indeed an aftershock though. I felt a bit foolish...

Again, we explored Christchurch, walked around a park we'd not seen before and watched more acts in the ongoing festival. We watched a pair from LA, described as ... breakdancing comedians?... and they were amazing. I will admit, a common theme among many of the acts are that they all tell jokes. Now this at first seemed normal, but the common theme I noticed was that NONE of these jokes would fly as "PC" in the states. They were pretty funny though.

One comment I did enjoy was (actually from yesterday), was when a guy was juggling flaming torches. He was having a small kid in the front row rate him though. When he started he waves the torches ne'er the ground and the excess gas flies to the ground making two burning streaks. He goes "Look! Back to the future..." which was followed by a blank stare and the guy saying "You have no idea what im talking about...". Ill admit... it sounds less funny now that I write it but I swear it was. :)

Anyway, dinner was Thai. We've seen a lot of Thai restaurants and wont be visiting anywhere with it as the native food so we thought it'd be good. It was very tasty. We headed back early to do some laundry and cleaning and packing... followed by a very early bed for a very early morning.

Good night New Zealand! For the last time until I return some day far from now...
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