We woke up this morning to overcast and super foggy skies. We thought it would burn off. It didn’t. It actually got worse and started raining without letting up. Oh well. No reason to go out in the rain if you don’t have to. We stayed in and read our books and Josh played his video game some. It was relaxing but cold as Josh couldn’t get the fire going again after cleaning out all the ash and soot from the burner this morning.
I read my books crawled up under all the covers in the bed and dozed off and on. It was the perfect rainy foggy gray day for that. I wasn’t feeling much motivation to get dressed up and to drive back to Nelson but we did. We took a shower in the outdoor shower (very very nice) and got ready to go.
We had the most difficult time backing the car up and trying to get it back up the hill after we went down it too much unintentionally. We made it though (with a stop at the Warehouse at Motueka for books…I voluntarily put up an $8 magazine…that’s a rip off…and got a message to call Angela at PNP re. a timesheet…I’m on vacation-quit adding to my stress) and got to Nelson through the rain.
We found the Waimea Club easily enough due to Tom’s excellent directions. We got set up and saw that Tom and Margot were already there. Tom bought Josh and I Diet Cokes like we asked for and Margot bought us 2 raffle tickets. We felt bad for not sitting at their table, however, it was customary to sit with the president at his table I think so we did that.
We had a great dinner of beef lasagna, breaded fish, potatoes, wedges, mousse, pavlova (a sweet, airy, fluffy, egg white cake), coffee, etc. It was really good food. However, the president, Len, took Josh’s plate away before Josh could go back to grab a second round! Ah well, onto dessert. We had great dinner conversation (Graham the resident “does it all” dropped knowledge on all the places/things we should do and I was like, yeah, we’re booked in to do that). Then, we were up to speak.
Rotarians are thrown off by two things when they are introduced to Josh and I when we are at their clubs to present. The first thing is that Josh and I have different last names but we’re married. The second thing is that we do the presentation together. Win or lose, however, it is what it is.
We presented to the Richmond Club and they have 41 or so members who were present that night. The presentation went well enough and when they called the hogs it was AWESOME…I love that little bit of home down here. Then one guy, who turned out was named Peter Glue, did an imitation Haka…funny!
Presentation over, some people came up to speak to us like this Peter guy because his wife works at Nayland College with the international students area and she travels to all these foreign places all the time…if we come back to this area, I’ll definitely touch base with her (Judy Glue). We said good bye to Tom and Margot who had treated us so well.President Len walked us out as the last people to our car talking about phrases we should learn in Maori.
On our way back to the cottage, on Swamp Road, we thought we hit a kitten. But, to his credit, Josh didn’t swerve the car which would have been bad on the really wet roads. We made it back to the cottage safely enough to find nothing freshened up so the cottage truly is self catering. We are running low on sugar and coffee though.
Josh and I read our books until we fell asleep. I read a book called Making Babies by an Irish author that I’d picked up at the Warehouse this afternoon. Fortunately for me, it just reconfirmed that I do not want to have kids. Reading this type of literature is like a test and it’s a test of if I’ll go, “Oh, I want that life.” But I don’t end up thinking that---which, like I said is fortunate. Josh fell asleep before me but I was out around midnight.
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