Annabel's visit to Wellington

Yesterday heralded the arrival of Annabel to Wellington - accompanied by her boyfriend, Mark. I've known Annabel ever since we first met in 3rd form - two rather short, geeky girls, with matching long blonde hair. We've both come a long way since then - now sporting rather short hair, and although I'm still rather on the short side, Annabel is far from short now. We've had our share of drama since those carefree days at Girl's High (ha!) and she is now residing in London, while I somehow made my way up here to Wellington (and got married in the process :D). So I found out a few days ago that she'd be spending a night in Wellington and thought it'd be fun to catch up. And it turns out it was lots of fun catching up.

A big group of us kicked off the evening by meeting at a resturant called 'Stella', which funnily enough, was located inside the Reading Cinema complex. That was followed by a trip to 'Mighty Mighty', where there was a bizarre Table Tennis tournament being held in the bar..... and spare raquets on every table for anyone that felt like joining in! and not just any Table Tennis, but a game where around 12 people would play simultaneously. For instance, someone would serve, someone else would hit the ball, and then some other person would come in on the other side and hit the ball back.... to someone else! and if you missed you were immediately disqualified. So that was a rather interesting thing to watch whilst in a tequila induced haze! nonetheless, we made the most of the comfy Armchairs and ambient lighting at Mighty Mighty (trying, but not succeeding to block out the way too loud country music that was blasting through the speakers, and accompanying the table tennis players. Nice). I had decided to wear a peroxide blonde wig that night, so I fitted in nicely to the country theme that seemed to be overtaking the club - just call me 'Daisy Duke'! (but with longer shorts).
Ah, fun times were to be had by all. We spent most of the evening, of course, convincing Annabel and Mark why they should move to Wellington. I swear I'm biased, but it is the best city in the world!

Sunday (today) has so far been perfect and Tim has just left for Band practice. He cooked us all an amazing breakfast today of Eggs Benedict. Lizzie and Brett also popped in to say hi, as they were passing through Wellington on their way back to Christchurch. So I got to see my little sister, and one of my oldest friends. A good day, and a nice way to finish an interesting weekend. Roll on next week (and four weeks to go till holidays, yay!)