Life Bits
February 12, 2006 9:39 am General
My parents dropped over to New Zealand for 10 days, and we’ve toured a little around the top end of the south island. It was lovely to see them, and for the most part we got pretty good weather during their time here. We headed off on Friday over to Hanmer Springs, a quiet little town with some thermal hot pools to dip in – much more commercial in contrast to Maruia Springs, a Japanese bath house further along the Lewis Pass. After that, we headed up to Nelson for a couple of days, and Dad got some time on the river fly fishing, and a days walk on the Abel Tasman. Following that, we headed over to Blenheim for another couple of days. Blenheim is Marlborough country, so not only do you have the fantastic sounds and a days walk on the Queen Charlotte track [we got drowned on], but also some amazing vineyards. I feel like I’ve been steadily drinking since November last year, so may cut back on the juice over the next couple of weeks.
At LCA this year, my mobile phone died. Jeff kindly donated his old mobile phone the last time my mobile died, but I figured it was about time to spend some cash on a new mobile, and solve the problem of not having a small pocket sized digital camera. I’ve always been a Nokia fan but having had a look at their recent efforts I was pretty disappointed [I’m loving their tablet though]. Instead, on the advice of Dave, I went for a Sony Ericsson W800i. With a 2 megapixel camera, and handy things like using a Duo memory stick [same as my PSP, bonus!], and LED light, and some other nice bits and pieces, I’m mostly happy with the phone. Can’t seem to turn on vibrate alert for texts though…
