The weekend in Christchurch helping Toby shift flats

 Hi,

What a huge weekend. I need a rest after all that.  I did see Ed on Thursday though in my lunch break. So good to catch up with him. He is almost fully recovered from his broken ankle and settled into his new role (9 months now I think he said). Yay! Can't wait for the next catch up. Maybe after our trip to the MotoGP.

Ed and iced latte

Sourdough for Christchurch

My Jane Goodall Barbie from Karen

Early Friday morning saw Mike and I driving the Forester to the airport (it may's well be the one that sits in the salty air for a few days). We had enough time for a quick brekkie before a fast flight to Chc.

Friday Wlg iced latte at the airport

Couple of hours later, Chc iced latte at strange Bandit

Iced latte

Iced latte

We left Mike at work and headed to Toby's old Brodie St flat to continue the work to box up all the things. There was a lot of stuff but Tessa had a plan and Toby and I just tried to execute the plan. 

It did mean Toby and Tessa were by far the most organised out of the flatmates. Lucy had no one to help her so we all pitched in as we could. Mitchell had work so was out of action.

Rolandbrau bottle

Going to try and save the sticker for Katla

Cleaning old room

Toby driving us

Poms for tea Friday night. Steph and Sam joined us too.  Calm before the storm.

Mike in the shower in the Accor room

For this weekend, we stayed in the Breakfree Accor backpacker hotel. It was nice - but not sure I would stay there again. Tiny. Clean. The bathroom was just obscured from the main room by curved frosted glass.

The bed was somehow too soft.

Rain outside

Wide angle of our tiny room

Their new place in Worcester St ("Wooster St" as Google Maps pronounces it) is lovely. Fairly new. Heat pump. Toby and Tessa have 2 rooms in the 4 bedroom place. Mitchell has the master with ensuite. And Lucy is in the only downstairs bedroom. Toby, Tessa and Lucy share a bathroom/shower upstairs but there is a single toilet next to Lucy's room.

Mike had got up early in the pouring rain to collect a covered trailer that Duncan (from work) had available. It was 30km north west of Chc. But it was so worth it to have a huge, covered trailer.

New flat kitchen

New flat lounge

The whole day was spent ferrying and carrying stuff from Brodie to Worcester. It was a lot. Plus a full trailerload of bin bags full of rubbish to the dump. A bunch of people turned up to help. I was happy to get Toby and Tessa's bed set up so they finally sleep in their new place. Especially with Tessa having work on Sunday.

More stuff arrives at the new flat

Steph and Mike

Toby and Tessa have a bed to sleep in

Old room all cleared

Old place at Brodie St

They say goodbye

3 years here

In the evening the four of us drove the trailer home to Duncan's place out on a farm. We then stopped off at Platform - some pub in the middle of nowhere - and had some nice pizza.

Sunday saw brekkie/brunch for me, Mike and Toby at Little Poms with a quick trip to Brodie to get that last rubbish collected. Yay!

New desk built for Tessa

We found and built a desk for Tessa to replace her old, falling-apart one that wasn't worth trying to reassemble.

And managed to squeeze in a trip to Silky Otter to see Prime Minister. All 3 of us really enjoyed the documentary - a real good look at a crazy amount of history shoved into 5 years.

Prime Minister at Silky otter

Little Poms iced latte

Tessa got home after work and we ran out of time to eat somewhere. They dropped us off at the airport. We caught a wee plane home. Drove home and fed the cats and went to bed.

Mike was up for gym with Quentin and he is tuckered out. No wonder. He did a lot of driving and lifting.

Week looms. Grey and cold here. Let's see what happens. Thank you Ange for checking the cats.  xx

Smudge warmly greets Ange on her visit

Love,

Angela