The weekend with an earthquake at the very end and working from home

Hi,

Well, that was an unusual end to the weekend.  Mike went away to Ruapehu in the silver bullet and Toby and I stayed home due to Toby's vomiting illness.  But by Saturday afternoon Toby was fine.

We went to have dinner in town and went to see Arrival.  We both really enjoyed it.  It was more cerebral than the trailers led us to believe.  Not exactly an action film.  But we thought it was good.

OCD Toby lines up the chips when he's done

On Sunday we went into town to have Yum Cha together.  Toby loves the Grand so we went there.  I was disappointed with it.

Dishing up sticky rice

Mmmmm - more sticky rice

Mike got home not long after us from his weekend away and we relaxed before dinner and an early bed.

But at midnight, I woke to the start of a long earthquake.  I mumbled "Earthquake" to Mike and he roused himself.  I kinda like that earthquakes don't wake him, but a whispered word from me brings him out of his deep slumber.  As the quake continued, I got out of bed and contemplated getting under it, or beside it in the 'triangle of safety'.  Mike elected to stay under the duvet in the 'rectangle of apathy'.  A photo fell off the bed head and landed on my pillow.  That's never happened before!

The shaking lasted about a minute and Toby came up and stayed with us for about another 40 mins.  Eventually he went back to his bed and we all went back to sleep.

Up in the morning to find out that chaos had pretty much ensued during our sleep.  The CBD was closed for building inspections.  Toby's school was closed.  Kaikoura had been cut off from the outside world (with Richard's brother out of comms for quite a while before he could get in contact to say he was ok) and Lower Hutt had been evacuated due to tsunami risk.  Sally and Andrew (and Celia and her family) spent many hours on the top of Wainuiomata hill.

Toby slept in a lot and Mike and I worked from the dining table.  We popped around to see Fiona and Brendon for a cup of tea and met Joan (from the corner) and Amy.

Perk of working from home - Lewis Road iced coffee

At 4pm we met workmates in town and went into work to get laptops.  Dropped them off in Karori and went back home.

Tuesday was working from home day - with Toby at school.  But his bus didn't come so he was dropped off by Mike.  A few aftershocks felt, but they are dropping off.  Mike collected Toby at the other end of the day and experienced traffic chaos.  Molesworth St is now closed as a high rise building there is apparently about to collapse.

Tuesday was crazy weather day.  I have never seen such fierce lashing rain.  Wow!

I took the bus in this morning because it just seemed crazy with the weather still really bad.  But with Molesworth closed I am unsure how the buses will get home.  I might aim for a 13 as they go a different way.

Right.  Tea will sort everything out.

Have a wonderful day.

Love,
Angela