Christchurch was fun. I love the exhilaration of cycling in the city! It's like an urban jungle, dodging cars parked in the bicycle lane, feeling the traffic wooshing past, and the satisfaction of overtaking cars stopped at traffic lights....
The three days in Christchurch were spent catching up with friends and shopping. We were thinking about cycling over the Port Hills to Lyttleton but used the excuse that the weather wasn't good enough...
At the airport I think Erin and I started to drive Julie nuts by trying to compact our luggage into two large bags - Air New Zealand's new Piece luggage policy means that we avoid significant Excess Baggage if we check in fewer pieces. This required a bit of fiddlling to get all our luggage into the santa sack Erin was carrying; yet still be under the $25 limit. Julie said "I am happy to pay the $15 excess baggage". Needless to say, we didn't need to...
It was a little strange arriving home to my house and garden that had had a month's summer growth. The lawn was surprisingly short, and the vege garden was almost unrecognisable. What had been knee-high sweet corn when I left was now towering! The courgettes had gone mad; huge plants occupying far more than their share of the garden! The tomatoes are a rambling mess and the potato plants sprawled over the paths. It was fun hunting for courgettes and potatoes and discovering cute baby cucumbers and capsicum. Matilda has finally worked out she can jump into the vege garden, so a few plants had been uprooted, and she'd spread mulch from the mulch pile all over the place. Today her wing got clipped...
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