Cromwell

September 10, 2008

It is very slow typing in Chinese, slow until I cannot tahan! Not because I'm not good in Han Yu Pin Yin, but the it makes the computer very slow.

By the way, I wanna write about Cromwell today. It's LOVELY to visit this small town.

After the school yesterday in Gore, we drove to Cromwell, around 3 hours drive? I can't remember, we arrived at around 5.30pm, spent more than an hour looking for accommodation. At the beginning we thought we would spend a night in the holiday park, but a cabin offered was $85, so we decided to find a motel, we were pretty sure that we could find a motel at this price. 

Drove to an old motel, the owner offered $95 a night, I didn't want to stay there, that's too expensive, and the room did not worth that much to me. Drove out of town a bit, want to find another backpacker, but didn't see anything. Thought of staying in B&B with the family, couldn't find, but saw Venus, Mars and Mercury in the sky, and Jupiter was close by the moon. It was getting dark, easy to spot Venus, Mars and Mercury, but you only have about an hour to see them, because they are quite low in the sky, and then they go lower and lower and you can't see them anymore.

Anyway, we were happy to go back to town to check out a few other motels. We came to one, $98 a night, brand new room, king-sized bed (Martin was very happy about it, because I take up a quarter of a queen-sized bed during the night), nice clean kitchenette and shower, LCD tv and DVD. I think the lady in the 1st motel we went was trying to rip us off, if she offered $80, we would take it, good she didn't.

The owners of the motel we stayed were an old couple, nice people, gave us 2 ginger chocolate muffins thought we would be hungry.

Martin was very tired after the school and driving, so not very fun to play with. I cooked our dinner, Korean noodles with hard boiled eggs (my favourite!) and pak choy.

This morning, after a good sleep, we were sad to leave this comfortable room.

Went to a primary school, 2 presentations, teachers and students were very nice, they liked Martin's presentation. And one of the girls came up to me and told me that my hair was very long! And said that she didn't like short hair. And then one of the boys asked me if me and Martin stay together... what was he thinking?? Maybe he liked me.... waaaaaaaaaaaa!! hahaha!

 

After the school, we went to Old Cromwell, just a historical thing, old shops, old houses, nice place, and the weather was not so cold.

And then we left Cromwell, stopped on the way to get pies, sandwich, chocolate slice, and Martin's energy drink -- COFFEE.

I actually wanna write my blog in traditional Chinese Characters, so Yuko and Etsuko will understand, but I don't know how it works on this computer, so that's okay.

We passed by Gore again, didn't stop, drove another half an hour to come to Invercargill. So I'm in INVERCARGILL now, staying in a backpacker, not many people staying here. Only one double room and it's not available, so we stay in a dorm, only me and Martin and a guy in this backpacker, the guy stays in another dorm. We paid $24 each for the 4 beds dorm, but it seems like only both of us staying tonight.

Tonight's dinner was canned soup and raviolis. I don't like the raviolis purchased from tne supermarket, tastes yucky. I prefer farmers' market's.

Gotta stop now, very happy sending texts with Sarah yesterday. She will go to Taipei again on this Sunday. Said we'd be at Changi Airport at the same day and go home together.

 

 

  

 

Tomorrow after the school in Invercargill, we will drive up North, but dunno which way to go yet. Hopefully it will be a pleasant drive. No chance to meet Philosophy in Lake Tekapo, we were thinking of driving up that way...

Goodnight~

 

On the way from Cromwell to Invercargill

On the way from Cromwell to Invercargill