Last Monday at 6:15 I got picked up for work and we drove to Golden Bay (90 mins) to work on a house at Pohara Beach. The owner has a bach (cottage) there so we stayed over. It was a fun job to work on. I cooked up dinner for everyone on Monday nite and also cooked panckaes for breakfast Tuesday. I came back home for soccer training Tues nite and went back to Golden Bay Wednesday morning. Did 2 more long days coming back for training again Thursday night.6:20 friday morning Clint and Alice picked me and took me to the airport. All the computers were down so check in was done manually meaning delays but my friend Anna made me a free chai latte at the cafe and I managed to get a direct flight to Auckland rather than stopping in Wellington. Had a nice flight up. Got a shuttle into Auckland City where we had a hotel booked. Met Kate and Mark there. The lady in reception told us it was 1.5 - 2 stars!!! It was really disgusting. Anyway we got changed and then a 10 minute walk up the street got us to St Pauls church. Cam and Chloe were married in a simple ceremony at 1:30pm and then we celebrated with champagne and wedding cake. A few hours break and then at 5:30 we went to Mantells- a cool venue in Mt Eden where we had the most sumptuous meal! The salmon and beef were so nice. Some great speeches were made-Gapesy as best man told some hilarious stories and read an email that Cam had written which was priceless!! "We are soo cool"!! Back to the hotel for some much needed sleep.
Saturday 9:15am arise and try out the shower. Got face scalded as cold water came and went.
9:45am Mum and Dad picked me up and we went to Parnell for breakfast to celebrate mums birthday. Happy Birthday Mum!! My sister and her husband and my niece and nephew joined us too.
11:30am Mum and Dad took me to the airport.
1pm Flight to Christhchurch. Fell asleep.
2:30pm Stew met me at the airport and took me the team motel.
4pm Light training run at St Bedes School. freezing cold--about 10 deg Celsius.
8pm Dinner at a local restaurant. Buffet all you can eat!
11pm lights out
Sunday sleep in and then rise and relax
11am check out of motel and drive to English Park. Watch some of the curtainraiser.
1pm our game kicked off and Mike fiff scored inside 1 minute!! 2 goals in the first 10 mins and 3 by halftime. I only got to play the last 8 mins but almost scored when I got the ball past the keeper only to have a defender clear it off the line. We won 3-1 meaning we sang in the showers and were very happy! After food and speeches we had a long slow ride home in the vans arriving home about 11:30pm very tired but after a fun successful weekend. But before bed I managed to watch a replay of Maria Sharapova win the US Open.
2 more sleeps to get my licence back and looking forward to our next soccer game--back in Christchurch again on Saturday.
Saturday 9:15am arise and try out the shower. Got face scalded as cold water came and went.
9:45am Mum and Dad picked me up and we went to Parnell for breakfast to celebrate mums birthday. Happy Birthday Mum!! My sister and her husband and my niece and nephew joined us too.
11:30am Mum and Dad took me to the airport.
1pm Flight to Christhchurch. Fell asleep.
2:30pm Stew met me at the airport and took me the team motel.
4pm Light training run at St Bedes School. freezing cold--about 10 deg Celsius.
8pm Dinner at a local restaurant. Buffet all you can eat!
11pm lights out
Sunday sleep in and then rise and relax
11am check out of motel and drive to English Park. Watch some of the curtainraiser.
1pm our game kicked off and Mike fiff scored inside 1 minute!! 2 goals in the first 10 mins and 3 by halftime. I only got to play the last 8 mins but almost scored when I got the ball past the keeper only to have a defender clear it off the line. We won 3-1 meaning we sang in the showers and were very happy! After food and speeches we had a long slow ride home in the vans arriving home about 11:30pm very tired but after a fun successful weekend. But before bed I managed to watch a replay of Maria Sharapova win the US Open.
2 more sleeps to get my licence back and looking forward to our next soccer game--back in Christchurch again on Saturday.
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