TRAVEL DIARY

A weblog regularly updated by Jodi Rose.

Tuesday, April 18, 2006

10:12 PM
Posted by jodi rose

awash in rose cousins spoiling me with their hospitality. tonight is anne and paul's turn, just got up for a cup of tea to get me through the next few hours emails, found vanilla chai in the cupboard and paul with dark chocolate in his hand in the doorway.
michelle told everyone at big kids daycare 'this is cousin jodi' and entertained us with improvised minimalist/baroque interpretations of nursery rhymes on her Casio PT-30.
had a magnificent walk this morning around worser and scorching bays (the worser the bay the better the sailing, promises the yacht club) while jenny had her hair maimed at sophisticuts. reached the chocolate fish cafe barely minutes before she arrived - possibly the most spectacular location for caffeine I have ever experience, except perhaps 'the store' at kekerangua (?) on the way up from kaikoura, where we saw seals swimming in the ocean.
this morning a tv crew did vox-pops with the table next to us, including an athlete who knew jenny from her world triathlon days (she invited me to come for a run with her, saying 'I'm really out of shape' but I pointed out that her idea of in shape and mine are vastly divergent, and I had no chance of keeping up) about the rolling stones concert they had come up from christchurch to enjoy - word was the stones themselves might come down for a beverage in this world-renowned wellington cafe, but we couldn't stay, already running late for our lunch appointment at ministry of food. following which I made a lightening tour of the salvo's and a few clothes shops; resolved to really follow through on the regular excercise and healthy food this time (although heartened by jen's admission of feeling unfit - now she really IS superhuman, used to run up and down those hills in takaka like they were bumps in the road!), and then caught the train to porirua. where I log on for the first time in almost 5 days - eeeeeek the guilt - and discover two major projects requiring urgent work. so, back to the juggling act.