s e v e n i s a j o u r n e y

We slept in on Sunday, trying to recover from the late night of Rugby watching. One advantage of the current apartment is that our bedroom is buried in the middle of the building with no windows, making it very dark. This allowed me to sleep in until 8:30! Oooh, luxury!

That afternoon we went back to fight practice up in the Price of Wales park, which was fun. More preparations for the Folklore fest were ongoing, including work on some of the monster costumes. They should be a hoot. Tam also got a chance to talk a bit more with Roger, coordinating props and the like for pirate camp. From there we drove over to Shelly’s place in Kingston. Again, the snakes-and-ladders road system turned us around a few times, but we eventually found the place. I think she has one of the best views in Wellington. Instead of looking out over the harbor her place looks west into the uninhabited steep hill country. Way down the valley you can even see the Cook Straight. Perched on top of the hill there is plenty of wind, but its position also means that you cannot easily see other houses out the living room window, just the green hills to the west.

We spent a fun-filled afternoon planning our piratical ways. Costume elements were tried-on, names and backgrounds were worked out, and various scenes we could run were devised. Trying to be “on” for two consecutive 8-hour days will no doubt be exhausting, but it should also be a great deal of fun. The desire to find more of our props and other cool stuff is also going to be a powerful incentive for Tam and I to unpack as qucikly as possible. I fully expect our first week in the new house to be “frenzied”, to put it mildly!