Twenty One January

It's What Can I Break For The Next Four Years Day - aka Dubya's Second Inauguration - bleah, saying he will bring freedom to the world, when Iraq is in a mess and DC was in shutdown mode. And if I hear the phrase first inauguration since 9/11, I will scream! And Kerry turned up and was booed, hmm, well, yes, just thinking a Dem win reponse to the outgoing Prez (dream the impossible dream LOL, 100 000 hanging chads in Ohio) would have been similar.



But away from the politics and back to the holiday. Were well fed by GM while we were there - V would prefer to use - had pork chops, veges and cheese sauce for dinner one night and cheesecake for dessert, and then chicken, potato and peas for dinner the next, and rice pudding, fruit and cream for dessert. Plus breakfast, lunches and the occassional McDs sundae LOL. After dinner and Coro Street, GD found Planet of the Apes, the original, and V and GM rolled their eyes. Watched it almost straight through though, and I used to think it just had a brilliant ending, but, even though I know the movie inside out nowadays, the movie itself is great, and builds tension excellently. But the girls rolled their eyes.



Sleep, after a bit of annoying, and then it was breakfast the next morning, slopping around in nightclothes, like GM. Pretty nothing morning, then to the airport, couple of hugs, GD saying V was a nice girl, and a wannabe Presidential wave off from the top step of the plane (yes, I often have Hail To The Chief in my head LOL), and then the flight HOME.



Off the plane, onto the tarmac (one of those commuter planes, so not an airbridge), into a forty knot northerly, and couldn't stop grinning, home again. Had a beer at Trax, V said Wellington was different to what she expected on the taxi ride in, as I was pointing out different bits and pieces. And then onto the train out, and across the road from Trentham to the Totara Lodge. Which is nicer and bigger than I expected. Has a kettle, toaster and iron and a huge shower.



Then started the Grand Tour of Upper Hutt.