The time had come to send Eric off to the airport to catch his flight home. Luckily the bus he and Rob discovered yesterday was also ideal for the airport and so at 8.15 Rob escorted him down to the bus stop. After waving them off I called Alex, granny, grandad and mum which was really really lovely. Then when Rob was back we signed onto skype to speak to Shirley and my dad, plus an expected bonus video call with Shaparak and a sleeping Samy.
After this skyping extravaganza we hurriedly researched a Panasonic shop in Christchurch, got our things together and headed off into the city for our coffee date with my friend Anastasia. I know Anastasia through my Olympics work, she is from Christchurch originally and back here with her family for a few months while on maternity leave. It seemed too good an opportunity to miss and we had arranged to meet up while we were both in town. So Anastasia, her mum and baby Monty met Rob and I in the Christchurch art gallery cafe for a coffee and a catch up - it was great!
Then it was time to do some jobs, we had developed quite a list of things to get done today. However in order to face the jobs we needed to build up some energy and so first we stopped in Cathedral square for a spicy bratwurst! It was buzzing in Christchurch today due to a mixture of the market, school holidays, sunshine and a busking festival.
We then had a long but successful afternoon of visiting a range of camera shops (with the conclusion we'll have to get in mended in Bangkok), having haircuts, burning photo CDs and sending them home, buying me some replacement shoes and printing our camera receipt. Then we had a coffee in the sunny square before heading back to the motel. This evening we got dinner from a local healthy pizza place and are getting our money's worth of the TV and sofa in our motel. Funny to think that tomorrow night we'll go to bed in the Khao San Palace Inn....
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