20/04/09

Rich got up and flicked the nob on the grey water to let it drain out. He came back in to the van moaning about how rank it looked and smelled. We spent a little while getting together and by 9 we were back on the road heading back towards Queenstown. We pulled up at Te Anau so Rich could have piss number 2 of the morning, and while we waited Laura and I popped in to Fresh Choice to stock up on snack food, Laura had a craving for a Grapefruit for some reason. Further along the way we spotted an historic Steam train going past so we pulled over and watched it chuff past. We made it to Queenstown by midday and waited for what seemed like an eternity for some guy parked in front of us at the petrol station to fill up and browse the petrol station shop then pay for fuel. We finally managed to fill up and we were back in Arrowtown at about half 12.

We spent a little while wandering around the shops and checking out the scenerey. I was going to go for a walk with the girls but the offer of frisbee was too great to decline. The lads and I spent an hour or two playing frisbee on the field by the van. Two kids were playing quite close-by and weren't realy that good, we had already mocked their frisbee abilities from a distance as we were wandering back down from the shops. After a while of playing they asked if they could join us. They seemed amazed by my weird throwing techniques so I spent a while attempting to teach them how to do the different throws. One of the kids nearly had the hang of it. It didn't take long for us to start using both frisbees at once, and shortly after that the kid I'd just spent ages teaching how to throw the frisbee threw one towards me when I wasn't looking. It was travelling directly towards my face at eye height and perfectly flat so that when I turned around I couldn't even see it. Then all of a sudden I heard this really loud thud and turned around to see the frisbee float away from my head. Rich and Pat found it hillarious and didn't stop laughing for a long time. We carried on playing and Rich found a dead half decomposed hedgehog right next to where he had been standing the entire time, it stank.

The girls returned from their walk and we went back in to the camper. They started eating again and doing journals so I went for a wander down the stream. Some thug and his girlfriend were attempting to destroy a little dam that had been built to direct the flow of water by using a huge branch as a lever. As we were leaving Rich noticed that the top rear brake light cover was missing, we have no idea how it could possibly have come off, some thug must have ripped it off. As I put the key in the ignition the dash said 'Dipped beam left'. I initially blamed Laura as every time she sits in the front we seem to get some problem. Turns out the front headlight was out so we drove back to Queenstown and phoned Apollo again who told us to go and see Stewart again. We pulled up and waited for about an hour for some guy to come and fix us up with a new bulb. We then spent the rest of the afternoon wandering around town and using the net, then parked up outside Top 10 so we could sneak in and all get a much needed shower. I popped in to Fresh Choice before hand to pick up some head-n-shoulders as my head was getting really itchy because I haven't had a hair cut in so long. While I was there I couldn't resist the $2.80 huge blocks of Cadburys chocolate. When I was done in the shower and told the others about the cheap chocolate they insisted that we drive back so they could stock up.

We had pasta pesto with Chicken and Bacon for dinner, I noticed Pats habbit of biting down on his fork every time he takes a bite that Helen had pointed out a few nights ago and it started driving me crazy, every bite he took he seemed to chomp on the fork. So annoying! We then spent the evening playing Billionaire and PnA. It was Pats lucky night, he won pretty much every game of Billionaire, I had a shocker and haven't won a single hand in over 15 games now. I'm on minus 200. Laura and I attempted to watch 300 later, I was surprised she didn't fall asleep in the first 15 minutes and in the end I ended up having to pause it because I was so tired of it.

21/04/09

Woke up freezing cold as Rich was driving back to the all day car park in town. We slept a bit longer when we arrived, and were woken up to Rich coming back from the toilets chatting to someone outside. I could make out the voice, he'd bumped in to Dale and Adam who were in their SpaceShip camper and were apparently camped up next to us last night.

Rich then said he fancied a cooked breakfast, we were all up for one so we braved the temperature, got up got dressed and jogged over to Brazz. When we got there the girls decided $10 was a bit too much for breakfast, but the guys and I really wanted one so we forked out for it. The menu promissed a fry up with sausages, when the plates arrived there was only one sausage on each plate, and baked beans were an extra $2.50, dissapointing. The girls had gone for a wander to try and find some cheaper breakfast but had no luck and went back to the camper. I left the guys as they went to check football times at the sports bar and met up with the girls at the camper. It was colder than it was outside, I could see my breath clearly in there and my toes were so cold. They were cooking bacon, eggs and beans and huddling around cups of tea moaning about how cold it was.

The girls and I left a note for the guys as they hadn't returned and walked around town to check out the book shop. We then sat in the coffee place at the bank and everybody took turns to sort photos out on the laptop. We then walked over to the park to finish the back 9 of our frisbee golf game. The girls got bored after 2 or 3 holes, but it was funny watching them attempt to throw it as far as possible and it only going a few yards in front of them or smacking right in to a tree and bouncing back at their feet. We ended up getting the frisbee in the wrong basket for hole 13. When we had finished we went to the sports bar and got in a few free games of pool. We then headed off to Fresh Choice to sort out a weekly shop. As we were returning to the car park Dale and Adam were leaving to fill up their water tank. When they came back they had picked up a chicken and were really exited about it as they had been living of cereal, and noodles with tuna for 3 weeks straight. We decided to all eat and then go out for a bit. We had Fajitas for dinner which took a while to cook, DnA finished their chicken and noodles just as we sat down to eat. I'll never forget the look on Dales face when he walked in and saw us all sat there eating what looked to him like a 3 course mean. He was like 'Look, they've even got a bowl of salad out...b******s!'.

We went to the pub, ordered 2 cokes, 1 lemonade, a beer and a tap water between all 7 of us and sat in the warm pub for hours. We spent all night being told how luxury our camper was and telling stories of how we're always looking out for free showers. We told DnA about how good the Top10 showers were and recommended they go there in the morning like we were. Some time during the night something that smelled like a used nappy wafted through the bar, a few minutes later it was masked by an overpowering smell of deoderant. We spent most of the night playing Billionaire with them and laughed at how they spent most evenings playing 20 rounds of s*** head between themselves. As we played s*** head they kept getting confused about the 8 card, thinking it gave them another go rather than miss a go. We were all getting pretty tired at about 10pm as our bed time is usually 8 or 9 these days, so we headed back to the layby. Turns out DnA weren't parked next to us the other night, they showed us a DOC car park that was actually away from the road and had a nice view, so we didn't get beeped at by passing cars all night.