WARNING.. THIS POST CONTAINS NUDITY
So, My friend Domhnall has been visiting with his girlfriend Linda – both of whom I hope to catch up with in OZ soon enough. It was unfortunate that the timing clashed with Lorcans trip – ahh well! Good times though… headed out and played pool on Friday night. I seemed to do well against everyone – except Domhnall.. which is kidna annoying seeing as I play all the time and he doesn’t… :)
Then on Sat – we headed up to Arthurs pass to climb at castle hill.. unfortunately – as has been the case for the last week or so – the weather wasn’t good enough.. still, here’s a pic of Domhnall..
and one of Linda…
We headed up to Maruia Springs that night – to stay the night.. it was a really lovely place to stay the evening. I’d tried to … use my gentle persuasion on the receptionist to get us a cheaper room. See it’s all studio units.. $150 for a 2 person room.. the conversation went something like this:
Maruia:Hello, welcome to Maruia Springs, how can we help you?
Irish Cheapskate Hello, just wondering how much rooms are
Maruia:$150 for a 2 person studio room.
Irish CheapskateWow, that’s a little more than I was expecting.. see I have a couple of backpacker (not exactly true, they’re both qualified doctors) friends and I was hoping to show them Maruia as it’s so much nicer than Hamner Springs (always slag the competition off) and, if it was possible for us all to fit in one room – we have sleeping bags – then that’d be just wonderful…
Maruia:I’ll have to ask about that one…
In the event, we were going to get a $15 discount per head if we took one room – an ‘executive room’ – whatever that is… we ended up getting two seperate rooms.. which was a good move.
I do love the place though – if you’re staying the night – then there’s 24 hour access to the pools – so we brought down a couple of bottles and settled in. It was a really lovely evening.. then a quick(ish) game of scrabble.. which Linda kicked ass at.. (even with me knowing all the sneaky 2 letter words!!)
The next morning Glynn, Domhnall and I took a quick dip in the segregated (naked) baths… it was *slightly* embarrasing taking this picture.. I didn’t care (and neither did the others – who’s permission I have to put this up).. but at exactly the moment I was taking it… in walks a cleaner … it was *slightly* embarrasing to say the least – standing in the doorway taking pictures of the lads..
Back to ChCh, out for the last test match (All Blacks won the series 3:0).. and then many many pints.. haven’t been out drinking until 2 in a long time.. I know.. weak.. but there you go! :)
Linda and Domhnall left today for Queenstown – where they will be spending the next week learning to snowboard.. hope they get a good dumping of snow! Great to see the Big Man again though.. looking forward to Perth now..
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