First Friday Drinks, and the theatre
Trip Start
Aug 13, 2007
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Trip End
Dec 31, 2008
Wellington,
North Island,
New Zealand
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
As part of the theme, everyone was invited to make a sculpture or art using Number 8 wire. I should explain that it is said that Kiwis can create amazing things - all they need is 'a piece of Number 8 wire'.
Everyone was allowed to vote for the sculptures and the winning entry was number 5 - Buzzy Bee. Buzzy Bee is an iconic NZ toy so a very apt entry.
After 1st Friday drinks ended, I went out with a couple of the girls from Finance, and we ended up in Loaded Hog, where some other Transpower people were, and spent the rest of the evening dancing. I was good though and got the last bus home, so not too late a night. I did somehow manage to lose my bus pass though, actually on the bus, but I couldn't see it neither could any of the surrounding passengers.
On Saturday, after leaving a message at the Lost Property office about my bus pass, we went in the afternoon to a combined housewarming and two year old's birthday party. On the way there we popped in to see one of my work colleagues - Anna, as she lives just a few minutes away from where the party was.
The party was pretty good, although it was a bit hectic with at least a dozen kids running about creating chaos. There were just as many adults if not more, and it seemed to be a good mixture of Transpower people and others.
We left after a few hours as we had to catch the train back to town as we had tickets to see Cats at The Opera House. I had seen Cats before in Birmingham when I was younger, but I didn't really understand what was going on and didn't follow the storyline then. However, this time I enjoyed it a lot more, and Graham seemed to like it too.
Sunday was a bit of a write off, as Graham was working from home for approx 15hrs or so. He got up at 7am which is ridiculously early on a weekend and although he wasn't working constantly, it meant that we couldn't go out all day. I did manage to get out in the evening for a badminton match (I don't normally play but am on the reserve list, and they were short of players that week), but apart from that I just caught up on some housework and bills etc.
On Monday I had some good news as I rang the lost property office again, and they had found a bus pass, so instead of going to the gym at lunch time I caught the bus to Kilbirnie to go to the bus depot and pick up the pass. A 50 min round trip, so enough time to eat a sandwich as well! Marvellous!
