Well that's us safely down in Hamilton and so far we have all been impressed, particularly the members of CP16 (who shall remain nameless) that decided to try out some of the local liquors. We are not sure if there was an accent problem or they deliberately asked for the 'Jalapeno' version of 'chartreuse' -quite possibly the hottest, most vile drink that has ever had the misfortune of being discovered. Recovery was slow, painful and involved around 8 gallons of water.
The town itself has pretty much everything we could hope for along with the advantage that we stay 15 minutes (sober) walk from the town centre so gone are the days of haggling with taxi drivers. We are not sure though what the locals will be thinking with 50 or so Brits, and an Irishman, being dumped on their door step but so far so good. There are 45000 students in Hamilton so we reckon we will fit in just nicely!!
The infamous Henry the cat was allowed to join us down here on one condition... he get's neutered. As we type this, the poor little cretin is on a vet's table somewhere getting his bits removed. Ouch!!
On a completely different note, well done to John, Tony and Phil who all passed their New Zealand Private Pilot's Licences in the past week or so. Hopefully it won't be long before the Long Course Legends do the same.
Look out for some new photos of Hamilton in the next week or so.
Who looks after Henry, bearing in mind the difficulty that CP16 seem to have in looking after themselves? Anyway, how did you inherit a cat?
Posted by: Fiona | October 14, 2004 at 04:34 PM