Christchurch

Hello all! I have to admit, it has been a little while since my last post, but I feel that is for a good reason. More or less, I'm stuck here in Christchurch just waiting and trying my hardest to figure out if I'm actually going to fly on the 27th even! I'm having a hell of a time staying in contact with Tom (the person that is in charge of buying my ticket) and he is beating around the bush every chance he gets! Every time I call him, he says he'll have my ticket purchased tomorrow! This has been happening since Wednesday and it is Friday right now. So needless to say I haven't been the happiest camper for the past couple days.

With all that said, and considering I've been hanging out in Christchurch for the last little bit, I don't have a lot of exciting news to post. However, a few good things have happened to me in the past few days that I'd like to tell you all about.

First of all, last I told you I was going to stay at Steve's house, a friend of Dominic's. I didn't think that I knew this Steve person, but it turns out he was my Lab partner in several classes in College! So it was quite exciting showing up to this random persons house and actually knowing the person I would be staying with for the next week or so. Steve is also into climbing, so for the past few days I have been able to get out on the rock again.
First Steve and I went to Castle Rock and dinked around a little. The next day, I was able to meet up with Matt (the redhead from Thailand. . .Don't know if I've written about him yet, but regardless I met this kid climbing in Thailand, and he came down to NZ, I passed him in Hokitika, and was able to meet up with him for longer in Christchurch. . .) So Matt and I climbed the gym in the YMCA in Christchurch the next day, and after that, we climbed at a crag called Repaki. So that's three days straight climbing. Makes me smile! We wanted to go surfing today, but it has been raining all day long so far, and it has no sign of letting up. So today is reserved for sitting around and being lazy.

On another plus note, it looks as if Larry isn't going to have to be left alone for the next month! As I was talking with Matt in his hostel, I met this other chap called Nick. He was looking for a car for the next month, and offered to rent Larry from me for about two weeks of that month! So things are turning out. However, I won't consider them turned out until I'm actually on a plane flying away from this place! At the rate things are going, that could be months from now!

So, all things considered, that's why I haven't posted in a fair amount of time. Not a lot to talk about. And not many pictures to show what I've been doing really. (It's hard to get good postable climbing shots! But on the right is a photo of Matt and me so you know who I'm talking about in future posts. Doesn't he look an awful lot like Sean, when Sean was younger?)

Anyway I expect everyone back home to cross their fingers and "will" me out of here! Maybe some strange psycho kinetic powers will reach Tom and he'll actually purchase the ticket! Till next time!