It’s been a busy long week, while our American friends are celebrating thanksgiving, Thelma and Louise have been filling up their days (and nights) with activities and adventures!
On the building front, floors are finished and the new kitchen is patiently waiting for its stone bench! Dans tradie boys have been working behind the scenes, plumbing, painting,cleaning and reinforcing! All pitching in to help me make my house a home!
After a couple of weekends we’d rather forget the “All Blacks” redeemed themselves with unstoppable ferocity, and brought home the tri nations championship (almost – one game hinges on Australia or Argentina being able to notch up a huge score to take it off us). This was after a day of organising Louises world, uncluttering and reinventing the wheel in her little bolt hole!
Then the fun began, Louise decided this year it was time to drag Thelma along to her Christmas party! Dragging out the old glad rags(in My case the best of my op shop clothes) and head to the city for a night on the town.
The plans were stymied by the Auckland council deciding to hold its Christmas parade on the same Sunday afternoon. The lunch was flagged as all city roads were closed until later in the afternoon and parking up at our hotel before imbibing would have been impossible. Possibly a saving grace and not sure these girls would have been still standing for the “posh” 8.00pm dinner atop the sky tower!
Needless to say the plans flew into action at 3pm when access was available and the festivities began….
Having collected Louises boss and friend we set off to explore the neighbourhood…in search of a little pre dinner refreshment, pausing for a picture with the city’s landmark….The Auckland Sky tower…and the party destination.
A snack and appetiser was required to provide sustenance for the evening ahead. Nothing like sharing a social time next to the ongoing inner city roadworks and apartment dwellers doing their Sunday shopping, lugging bags of groceries back for the week.
It was then back to the room to change and try and make a couple of party girls out of beach girls. It was a big job, folding ourselves into dresses that hadn’t had an airing for a couple of years, trying to work a bit of make up magic (especially for me who never wears the stuff), and fluff the hair out into something interesting! One can only do so much, we were ready! We collected our suited buddy and teetered to the evening venue.
Lost in space, well almost lost in the middle of the road, Louise decided we should stop and stay in position for a photo opportunity not to be missed.
The weather was slightly overcast as we revolved around the Birdseye view of Auckland city, looking at our harbour bridge in the distance past the America cup village and the Auckland Marina.
The sun broke through as it was setting on the CBD and lightened up the other not so tall buildings.
Thank goodness we ate and did a little preloading, not only were drinks ridiculously expensive (a $9 supermarket bottle of Rose was selling for $46). A fantastic three course meal saw us stuffing down the dessert at 11.30pm…and it was time to party. Louise was on form, Thelma ready for bed! But no don’t be a party pooper…
The colours of a kiwi Christmas were lit up and the casino was close by. We fed the machines $20 ( our gambling limit) and then relaxed above the roulette tables watching others throw away much more than we care to think of. Where do all these people come from at 1.00am on a Monday morning?
This is where the pictures stop (not that there isn’t any) and a short summary follows….Thelma called it quits at 2am and Louise and her partner in crime rolled in around 5am! Thelma feeling very smug that she at least had three hours sleep under her belt….as checkout time was only five hours away!
All who wander are not Lost girls 