Rain Out - Night 70

Yesterday’s slow, consistent rain continued on

through the night and was eager awaiting us this morning. Our plans were to head up north for some weeding and plant watering (which was no longer necessary) but around 9am our contact called and cancelled the project for the day, much to our relief. The only thing worse than weeding is weeding in the rain.

An entire day on our hands, we first stopped in at the head office for morning tea and a look around. The GVN staff occupy the second floor of a very modern building on the south end of High Street in Lower Hutt. The over spacious kitchen has an average view of the river and an almost new ping-pong table. After some discussion and a bite to eat (as I don’t ‘take’ tea) we settled on a bowling excursion. Just down the road in Petone is Strike, a nearly new bowling/laser tag facility complete with bar and kitchen.

Bowling Action

Bowling, being the dying sport that it is in the States, I can’t recall ever having been to a new bowling alley. This place was nice. Imagine a brand new sports bar, complete with flat screens showing sports highlights (except here it was cricket, which I don’t consider a sport…anything you can play in white dress pants and a sweater vest is not a sport). The place was crawling with elderly couples; apparently we happened to show up during a retiree’s league of some sorts. Makes sense though, who else bowls on a Wednesday morning at 11 am?

After bowling we played a few fierce games of laser tag. Our team of three was soundly defeated by the opposing team of four both times. Either I am the world’s worst laser tag play or the scoring mechanism on my gun was faulty, as I registered paltry scores of 130 each time.

We spent the afternoon lounging around the house and watching the Lord of the Rings movies…Jamie had never seen them before. The rain continued throughout the day, so no one felt all too guilty about being lazy homebodies.

What I Learned Today: Kiwis (New Zealanders) have small thumbs. Both Ben and I looked through nearly half of the bowling balls at Strike and still could not find one that we could comfortably stick our thumbs into.

written by

exumenius on December 19, 2007 from Wellington, New Zealand

from the travel blog: Kiwis and Kangaroos

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