Cruise Ship and Found Keys.....

L10 and her Guide Unit were walking round The Mount tonight and having Hot Chips on the beach for dinner, so we decided we'd take our dinner down and have a last-ditch effort at Summer Al Fresco Dining before Daylight Savings ends this weekend.

While were munching our chicken, spinach, mushroom and potato pie I was pondering the numerous amounts of Cruise Ship watchers we often encounter whenever we happen to be at Pilot Bay when a Cruise Ship is departing, hoardes of people flock down with cameras and deck chairs and thermos' just to wave them off. Curious.

It *was* a pretty impressive spectacle though:



A11 found a set of car keys while they were playing in the sand, so we wandered up and down the rows of parked cars, pressing UNLOCK next to every Subaru we encountered along the way, until we came to one that reacted. I wasn't sure what to do from here though, I didn't want to put the set of keys somewhere near where the driver would see them, in case some opportunist happened along and the poor guy ended up with his car stolen instead of just his keys lost. I decided to pen a cryptic note and put it under his windscreen wiper that read "Your search is over, check under the blue boat" with my cell phone number and a little "(in case you are confused ;o) )" tagged on the bottom, lol!




An older Canadian couple on holiday in NZ called me over as we were getting ready to leave and asked me how dinner was, I offered them the last of the home made Julie Le Clerc chocolate lamingtons we had for dessert and replied that it was lovely, thank you. I did the wierd Kiwi thing of asking them "How are you finding NZ?" - why do we do that? It's like we're trying to measure up - and they said that they had really enjoyed just watching the kids play for a solid hour and a half with nothing but a tennis ball, the beach and each other for props.

Go figure? Tourists are content to watch kids play on the beach. Maybe I should have charged them an exorbitant fee for the spectacle. Or maybe I should have taken down their number plate in case they were stalkers, or worse, in case they were some of those nasty Freedom Campers who go round the country leaving rubbish and human waste on the side of the road and tell their friends how beautiful and cheap the country is to travel round. Or maybe they were just a nice, unhurried couple making conversation while they were passing time on holiday ;o)