Picton
Tuesday Dec 1st, 2009 Alan is officially retired today!
Today is the first day of Summer!!! It is cold and rainy out but the sun does shine later on.
We don’t want to get out of bed this morning. We can hear the raining outside on the roof and it sounds like hail. We actually, we have to have breakfast before 10:00 as that’s when the kitchen crew comes in to clean the facilities (i.e. no people allowed).
Now that we are up, we head for the kitchen for breakfast. We talk with a young couple from Sweden who are traveling the world on a world plane ticket. They are here for a while then heading to Australia, Vietnam, Thailand, then home. That would be quite a trip. The girl was on an exchange a few years ago to Canada and stayed for a year in Port Elgin and spent time in Kincardine. We have a good yarn about her travels.
In Picton, we have our list of things to do today. We check our ticket for the ferry and sure
enough it is good to go tomorrow at 13:10. Next we have the car checked at APEX and they top up the oil and fill up the windshield washer fluid for us. Then we stop in at the local sewing store as I need of buttons for a baby sweater and they have an amazing selection as well as great fabric. The post office is the next stop, to mail off a parcel to Joy, a woman I met here in Picton (maple syrup and a baby blanket for her grandchild).
Our last stop in the morning we pick up a few groceries for lunch then head back to the camp for toasted tomato sandwiches.
Tonight on the news they are celebrating the first day of summer in New Zealand by lighting the Christmas lights in Auckland. Interestingly enough they have set up ice cream stands and coffee trucks.
Tomorrow we head on the ferry to Wellington. We hope the weather is a bit better and not quite as windy as we have not so fond memories of the last crossing!
Tuesday Dec 1st, 2009 Alan is officially retired today!
Today is the first day of Summer!!! It is cold and rainy out but the sun does shine later on.
We don’t want to get out of bed this morning. We can hear the raining outside on the roof and it sounds like hail. We actually, we have to have breakfast before 10:00 as that’s when the kitchen crew comes in to clean the facilities (i.e. no people allowed).
Now that we are up, we head for the kitchen for breakfast. We talk with a young couple from Sweden who are traveling the world on a world plane ticket. They are here for a while then heading to Australia, Vietnam, Thailand, then home. That would be quite a trip. The girl was on an exchange a few years ago to Canada and stayed for a year in Port Elgin and spent time in Kincardine. We have a good yarn about her travels.
In Picton, we have our list of things to do today. We check our ticket for the ferry and sure
enough it is good to go tomorrow at 13:10. Next we have the car checked at APEX and they top up the oil and fill up the windshield washer fluid for us. Then we stop in at the local sewing store as I need of buttons for a baby sweater and they have an amazing selection as well as great fabric. The post office is the next stop, to mail off a parcel to Joy, a woman I met here in Picton (maple syrup and a baby blanket for her grandchild).Our last stop in the morning we pick up a few groceries for lunch then head back to the camp for toasted tomato sandwiches.
Tonight on the news they are celebrating the first day of summer in New Zealand by lighting the Christmas lights in Auckland. Interestingly enough they have set up ice cream stands and coffee trucks.
Tomorrow we head on the ferry to Wellington. We hope the weather is a bit better and not quite as windy as we have not so fond memories of the last crossing!
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