Journal Joff_NZ's Journal: Wellington Weekend Day 1 1
Heeh.. I should have written about this a week ago, but I got busy, or lazy, both - I can't remember.
Finished work early. Went home, got changed, packed and took Daisy to get some Chinese for dinner. Because of heavy traffic, this meant I was running behind schedule for picking up people to go to the airport. Pick up Robert. 15mins late. Pick up Chris. 10 mins late. Go the airport, finishing off the last of my take-away Chinese meal as I drive.
We check in our luggage, get tickets arranged, all sitting together. Cool. Turns out that Robert is somewhat uncomfortable with the concept of flying.
We wait for our boarding call. Then it's announced that the flight is delayed due to "engineering reasons". Great. Our plane is broken. Rob gets very nervous. We go to the "Time Out" arcade, and the best game there is this Aerosmith shooting game, where we have to shoot the "New Order" and free Aerosmith. It sucked. It sucked royally. Although, it *did* have Aerosmith in it.
Another announcement. Our flight is cancelled. We're all put on a later flight, one that leaves like 45 mins later.. thankfully it takes nearly that long to stand in line to get our new tickets issued, so there was to be no more Aerosmith action that night.
We get on the plane, and the flight is pretty smooth, even though it was snowing and the wind was blowing pretty stronly. Rob thought he'd just gone to hell and back. Chris and I, air-travel veterans, gave him a bit of shit for it.
Chris & I taxi to Prof's flat for Fran's 21st (the reason for this whole thing) and we arrive.. maybe an hour and a half later than expected. This means the bottle stores have closed. Its OK, Jogle makes me a dirty Martini. I like martini, but as it turns out, not dirty. I thought I was drinking seawater. Maybe I was. Seawater with an olive. I put that down and fixed myself a Kahlua + coke. Much better
The party was good.. caught up with a few old faces etc etc.. I gave Fran a Cure DVD, and Daisy gave her a bunny-ears hat, which went down pretty well. There was a lot of cameras about.. some photos are at http://www.ogle.co.nz/gallery/category/franParty
I had abisinthe. Its strong. Really strong. It kept me goin most of the night. Prof's flatmate, Matt was really friendly, but quite odd. It turned out later that he's actually a crazy person. I think Prof is going to move out.
After the party, we took taxi's to Jogle's place and tried to watch Jacob's Ladder. Except it was a dodgy SVCD or DVD rip or something, and it futzed out, so we went to sleep.. it was like 4am by that point anyway.
hahaha (Score:1)