Okay, no "what I did on my holiday" thing, all right. Will bore you to tears. Needless to say, had a great time. The Euro 2000 final was awesome, an opportunity of a lifetime, a once in four years event, or perhaps two years if you count the world cup. Well, thinking about it, there is the under 17 and the olympics, the under 21, the FA cup final, UEFA Champions league, the confederation cup. Okay, a once in every 3.73 months opportunity. Anyway, it was a cool game. May never see Italy and France play each other again.
The rest of the trip was also great, but no travel brochures. I will say that Hearst Castle in San Simian was way better than I expected and I am glad I got to see Wembley even if it wasn't during a match. Haven't come close to sorting out my photos yet, but I will try this week.
Welcome to some new victims of this sad bit of writing. Aneta & Jaap from Holand who will forward this on to Koos' sister Heidi (after censoring it and cutting down to about fifty words), and Linda in chicken land (somewhere north of San Francisco, she had the misfortune to be exposed to my insanity during our little road trip to lala land).
Nothing happened in New Zealand while I was away, Diana lied. But somehow stuff happened in Holland, then England, then the US. Kind of follows me around I think.
No idea what really happened in Holland because my Dutch isn't so good, didn't read any newspapers. However, I found it much harder to be understood in America, for them English isn't even a second language.
The 8yo girl that was lost while I was in England was found in a fairly dead condition last week. Not nice, but could predict she wasn't going to be in very good shape. Found 16km from where she went missing.
Fiji coup is over but still very confused. No real idea what is happening, George Speight seems to have be completely taken over by Winston Peters as he is just like him. Somehow thinks he has some sort of a say in things.
Auckland model Robyn Reynolds bedded Robbie Williams for a couple of days. Really cheap shot in the Herald about being so hungry she "grabbed one of his plums". Stupid woman, they're not in season at the moment. Must have been a prune. Huge coverage of him here, with one young lady running around topless at a press conference and all sorts.
John Tamihere, MP, has been avoiding some understatements he made about the number of convictions he has. Otherwise, the political arena has been reasonably quiet.
Violent weekend, with a murder, a mortal wounding, a man running over his girlfriend in his car, and a few aggravated robberies. An 8yo boy was mauled by two dogs and needed 200 stiches. Glad none of this happened near us, our weekend was comparatively peaceful it has to be said.
Got home to find out the Black Socks won the Softball World Champs. They arrived home about the same time as us. We heard they were winning here and there but that was about it.
The All Blacks win over Australia, which I missed, sounded like a killer game, we scored three early tries then they came back and we won (just). They then beat South Africa over the weekend, not convincingly but 25-12 isn't too bad. Some supposedly pointed a laser at the SAf kicker but the photo I saw looks like a mosquito bite on his neck, or worse, could be a love bite from Corne Krige (don't think about that, trust me). Tana Umaga got a few in him and made a git of himself that night.
Tiger Woods swept the field in his domination of the British Open, no surprises there.
Hannah lost her other front tooth on Thursday, call her "gummy granny" now.
Hannah's team won 6-1, Hannah set up one goal and played very well. The Orcas lost 2-1 in a very niggly game that they could have won, maybe next time. The 11th graders lost 5-4 in a game they lead until the last four minutes. Never relax. Played on a full sized pitch so there was heaps of room.
Then, yesterday, we had the Orca's team trip. All the team bundled into a mini-van off to Warkworth for a game. We had heaps of parents, some grandparents, and siblings follow us up, and many came to Waiwera afterward. They won 5-1, then we had a barbecue and stuff afterward. We traded player of the day certificates so the good players got an exotic one for their efforts. Then we trundled off to Waiwera hot pools for a go on the slides and things. Kids were a lot quieter in the van on the way home, but still a handful. Great day, all organised by Craig, not me, and an outstanding success. I have to say that Rory played pretty well in both games, working much harder than he has earlier in the season.
We saw baby Thomas on Saturday, who is talking more and getting around more.
Well, sort of out of time, lots to do. Neither me or Paul are entirely back to normal. I've been sleeping about ten hours a night since I got home, but it has to stop sooner or later. Mind you, Diana was watching "you've got mail" last night which I think is the equivalent of a sleeping pill for any normal bloke.
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