Human again

We arrived in Wellington at about 9.45am yesterday, and Sandra was there to greet us, which was lovely. We arrived then, but unfortunately, our bags did not. So there was much waiting around until a courier finally brought them over to Sandra's place in Petone - which meant that we missed the queer festival we had been going to drop in on. It rained pretty heavily though, so that may not have been a bad thing.

Sandra's house is gorgeous, as is her cat, Rosa (full name: Rosa Parks Free Cat). Her house is a five minute walk to the sea, so we had a little paddle yesterday. Alice was keen to have a swim, but it was definitely not warm enough. Today's much the same - warm, but quite windy - not suntan weather (yet). I think we're going to go for a coastal drive to see some of pretty Wellington, and then have dinner with Sandra's family later.

Managed to stay awake until 6.30pm last night, which, seeing as we set off from home at 11.30am on Thursday, seemed quite impressive. I slept until 4.30am, and then was wide awake for a couple of hours. I watched the first episode of 'Heroes' on my iPod, and am now looking forward to seeing the rest. Went back to sleep until about 8am, and definitely feel more human today. Sandra made pancakes with walnuts and maple syrup for breakfast...mmm... It's really good to hang out with her again and talk about setting the world to rights. It's been three years since we could do that in person, which is really too long.

I've got pictures, but will have to wait for somewhere with wifi to upload them, as I'm writing this from Sandra's computer and not my laptop. More soon!