Saturday, 25 December 2010

Day 46 - Christmas Eve in Nelson (Fri 24th Dec)

Chaggie woke up to fantastic weather again this morning, had breakfast and got ready to go out to Nelson for the day.

We left at around 10:30 popping in at Staggie's Aunty's house on the way so that Staggie could ask his niece's husband, Andreas, to fix his Laptop. After about 10 seconds and one press of the 'On' button, Andreas had done a superb effort in fixing it. Staggie was pleased.

We carried on to Nelson with a primary objective to buy Secret Santa presents for tomorrow as well as presents for family members. We got to the main highstreet at around 12:00 where Staggie had planned to meet a Cricket friend; Richard. We had a pint and a chat before moving onto the shops!

We had lunch at Burger King and bought a few bits and bobs by the end of this afternoon. We got everything we needed so a pretty successful day! We bought food and bits to keep us going after Christmas, presents for tomorrow as well as a mobile specifically to be used in New Zealand, called 'Alan'. The car's called 'Brian' by the way.

This afternoon once we got back to 'The Plum' (our appartment). We had to rush and get ready for this evenings meal with the 'Stagg' family. Staggie's Uncle Colin and family are staying in a flat just 10 minutes down the road from where we're staying. This evening Chino chose to drive and save his drinking time for tomorrow.

This evening was a seafood buffet with most of Staggie's family, Chino is now a temporary adopted member of the family over Christmas. Was a good night and great for the family to all reunite.

We got back in time for Christmas Day to begin at 00:00, celebrated it with a few beers of course. Here's to Christmas on the Beach.

Chaggie x

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