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Thursday spent the day relaxing as i wasn't feeling particulary well bought some lemsip and vapoour vixs sweets(soon to be hero's!). We had chinese for tea sweet and sour pork balls they were awsome :-)
Thursday night started throwing up and form then couldent keep anything down including water for at least a day. So that added to my sleep debrevation which i think will have partly caused it. But the vapour sweets were really handy to get rid of the puckey feeling. So that was my thursday and Friday Ruined! however Friday i did venture out to buy some wood and dvd's although still feeling v.ill.
Started to feel a little better and come staurday morning we had a pretty bad earth quake. It was 7.1 magnitude on the ricter scale, i will admit it was scary although i doubt anyone wasnt scared. It was very violent and noisey its hard to describe the noise but its very much like a train! It woke everyone up and upset the kids. We had no water or electric for a good few hours, but thankfully in our area it came back on quite quickly. Other areas still dont have toiltets.
So thanks to the earthquake everywhere was closed for the next few days. There has been alot of damge around christchurch and surrounding villages and towns. Some of the damage i have seen is terrible and i don't no how no-one was killed. Another downfall of earthquakes is all the aftershocks that happen afterwoulds. Some of them are quite big and scare you even more as its constantly on your mind whether or not there is going to be another big earth quake! The majority of the aftershocks you can hear them coming so atleast there is a small pre warning that things are going to start moving.
But never the less i am happy to be in New Zealand its something i can tell the grand kids! Things can only get better~! :-)
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