These Kiwis are Crazy

June 3, 2004 11:00 am General

It’s been a pretty busy week or two. Completely frustrating at times in work, but it’s been nice to find life outside and away from the hassles. Last weekend we headed up to Hanmer Springs. Maeve had been given a recommendation of a holiday house up there, so a bunch of us [Maeve, Andy, Sam, Steve and Carolyn] drove up there for a pretty relaxing weekend. We did a bit of hiking, a good deal of drinking and eating and stayed a while in the thermal pools, underneath a disappointingly non-starry sky.

Went to watch the All Black trials with Carolyn and housemates this week in her local. It’s the first time they’ve put on the trials for a while, and it seems to have created quite a bit of excitement. The Probables versus The Possibles. For much of the game you could see the Probables taking for granted their place in the side. They didn’t hold hands at the start for the national anthem, they didn’t seem to even have the desire to play a good game and come out fighting. By contrast the Possibles wanted to win and prove a point, and for much of the match they succeeded. Like the Super 12 final, Mehrtens turned the match around when he came on. This time doing enough to take a narrow victory. Of course, this was all the more amusing when you have 4 or 5 passionate Kiwis sitting in the pub with a few beers heckling anyone who screws up – which mostly seems to be the Aucklanders on the team. Looking forward to seeing the England game down in Dunedin next weekend.

Tomorrow we head to see Opshop and The Feelers live in the Civic Theatre by way of a Thai and a few drinks.

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