Our much anticipated reunion with our remaining traveling companion was all it was cracked up to be and more. Eric arrived in Christchurch, non the worse for wear, but proceeded to nearly end his vacation before it started. In his usual nonchalant manner, he took the keys to our rental car and boogied out of the airport towards our rental apartment in Christchurch, Town Square, only to learn firsthand to always look right before going left. Good thing the SUV driver had good brakes!!!
Speaking of good breaks, we have realized that they do several things "down under" way better than in the States:
All hotels have ports for your keyless entry to initiate the room power for all electricity, hence when you leave you can never leave the lights on, thus saving electricity!
All airplanes have FREE interactive consoles with movies, television, games, etc. all on demand at your beck and call.
Heated bathroom floors, for when you get out of the shower! For that fact alone, it may be worth moving here.
It seems that even though the Kiwi's emulate our culture, they aren't fully enamored with our Country, Country. The servers last night got a kick out of Graning's inability to understand what they were saying. Eric actually put up his arms after one of them rattled off a few sentences of questioning to him and he said," You might as well be speaking Chinese right now, because I cannot understand a word you are saying." They speak about 3x faster than we do, and are quite proud of it, and when you mix in the accent, with Eric's untrained, and veritably new listening skills, you get jibberish.
Eric has decided, he will no longer eat Lamb, as we learned when questioning who eats the adult sheep, that only lamb get eaten and it is b4 they turn a year old. After that they are too tough!
So here is the last picture you will ever see of him being a lambivore........driving to Queenstown and preparing for the Milf-
ord trek. More soon..............
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