So Thursday night headed off down to Wanaka for both the Queens and
Florians birthday. Drove down with Jayne & Glynn and we didn’t actually
make it there until almost midnight. A quick couple of pints was all we
felt like.
The weekend was actually pretty lazy for me.. I went biking with Glynn
the following day – I’d actually been here a year or so ago with John &
Maeve. The house that Glynn chose was about 100m away from where the
mountain bike tracks started – perfect really!
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Glynn and I headed out for a quick cycle on Friday morning. Glynn was slightly ahead of me when I heard ‘Oh Shi*’… I duly slowed my speed and came round the corner to see a ramp. And a hole (above), with Glynn in it. In ChCh we have nice cruisey tracks – wheras these trails – or some of them – were made for the NZ Championships in 2000(and something). Still.. didn’t stop him getting back on his bike and cycling on (at a slightly slower pace for a little while!)
By Friday night most people had arrived and it was just a fun weekend.
There was also a mountain film festival on. I had seen quite a few of
them before at the Banff Mountain film festival – so I didn’t go to the
evening sessions that the others went to. I did really enjoy the kiwi
films though.. Brilliantly made and will excellent comedic value! I
would try to describe them.. But I’d never do them justice.
The others went off climbing on Monday morning, and I went to a morning
session of films.. These ones were about development work (except for a
film about and Irishman and a kiwi who walked the Pacific Crest Trail..)
There was a film (Nomads) about kayaking & malaria work in Uganda which had specific interest to me due to mum and dad being there… And then there was one about a lady (Cynthia Hunt) who is doing aid and development work in the Indian Himalayas. That film was called Magic Mountain – the idea being there was a magic mountain of nutrition to climb..
The drive back to Christchurch was as lovely as ever, a perfect sunset
over Mt. Cook. I really am pretty blessed to live here. This past
couple of years has been lots of fun. Lots of fun. But at
somepoint in my life I would like to dedicate at least a couple of years
to doing this sort of work.. Maybe even help out in Uganda .. Though I
don’t feel completely comfortable about that yet. I’m not sure yet
where the best use of my energies (and limited skill set ;) will be..
But someday it’ll happen.. We’re just so lucky to be able to enjoy the
things we do.. It’s far too easy not to think about the bigger picture.
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