A Day of Blogging

It’s been a day of blogging here in Nelson. I was today’s “Status Checker” so my responsibilities included telling everyone 15 minutes before sunset and reminding everyone to update the daily wiki page. I took the opportunity to get everyone hooked up to the CS Collective blog. So as of today, everyone in the house should have an account on this blog, expect lots of juicy content in the next few days…

Figureing out a new thing…

So in my lack of computer knowledge I am finally figuring out how to make blog. What do you think? I couldn’t find the way to post from my personal blog to here. SO I have made a new one for hear just to see if I am doing this anywhere near to right.

The View by Night

The bay just after sunset…

Police Interference

For the second time tonight, we were pulled over by the police. At least this time there were 7 of us in the car, so they had at least some justification to stop us! It was only after checking the driver’s ID and alcohol level that the policeman noticed there were 7 of us!

Top marks to the Nelson police though, he asked if we were going far, then said, ok, go straight home!

You can just see the blue lights in the background…

My View

This is where I’m working right now, the laptop in the front of the picture is mine…

The View

This really is the view from the corner of our balcony…

I Made It

My flight landed at about 1am, I figured it was a good time to start hitchiking. I made it to the outskirts of Christchurch at about 2:30am, I needed a ride. It’s 6 degrees, I’m wearing almost every piece of clothing I own and I’m still freezing cold. I really needed a ride. I watched the sun rise about seven thirty.

I really, really, really needed a ride. I got a ride at 8:30am, I only waited 6 hours, not too bad.

I forget the guy’s name who picked me up, but we had a great chat about all sorts of things. He took me a slightly different route towards Nelson. Instead of going straight up the coast we turned left and headed cross country over Lewis Pass.

Then the snow started. I wasn’t looking forward to getting out of the nice warm car and back into the cold, cold, cold New Zealand weather…   By the time we got to Springs Junction, where we parted company, the weather had cleared up a bit.

Initially I was pleased, only another 214Kms to go…

The the rain started again, lightly at first… After an hour and a half standing in the pouring rain, I’d had enough. Drivers kept waving at me, by the end I was screaming “Do you see the rain? This is not fun. Give me a lift…” but it was no use. I retreated to the cafe on the corner and ran into Rhianna who was going to Nelson. Score, I had my final lift.

A few hours later I was ready to go to bed. My first hitch hike, 425Kms in a total of about 16 hours. Where are we going tomorrow?