The Long Walk

This weekend Anisha and I prepared ourselves for our trip to Hahei on Tuesday. On Saturday, I picked up Anisha from the Auckland Domestic Airport at 5:30pm.

I bought a Digitor Digital Photo Frame from Dick Smith Electronics. It cost me $140 and displays photos from Memory Stick, SD Card, and MMC flash media. It's only 7 inches in size. It pretty much a budget model. It does however come with a remote control.

It plays MP3's and Videos as as well. In my tests, It balked when I tried to get it to play video with greater then 25 fps in it. I know that Phillips has a much higher quality unit available at twice the price. I'll consider this my entry into the digital photo frame arena.

I tried and failed to spent the $40 Harvey Norman gift voucher that Charlene and Nick got me for Christmas. Harvey Norman has digital photo frames, but I didn't like the design of the two models they had on offer.

On Sunday, we went to Countdown to get the food we need for the trip to Hahei. The food bill came to around $200. We did some preliminary preparation of everything we needed. We plan to buy the milk, bread, and eggs when we are in Hahei.

On Sunday night, Anisha and I went for a walk to my old house.

Additional Information: Hahei is an attractive beach fringed with pohutukawa trees and drifts of pink shells at the northern end. Offshore islands provide something of a breakwater, making this beach ideal for swimming, boating and fishing.

A Summary of Events (Trip to Greymouth)

Christchurch

- Addington Stadium Motel
- Bus trip into the city centre
- The Arts Centre - Fudge
- Punting on the Avon
- Cathedral Square
- The TransAlpine to Greymouth

Greymouth

- Alpine Rose Motel
- Monteiths Brewery Tour
- Car rental from Europcar
- Shantytown
- Virginia and Jasons Wedding (Holy Trinity Anglican Church)
- Wedding Reception (Moonlight Hall)
- Breakfast with Geraldine, Virginia, and Jason
- Trip to Punakaiki Pancake Rocks and Blowholes

Wellington

- Meeting Anishas parents and family
- Went to visit Anishas friend Alpa
- Went to Te Papa
- Maranui Cafe - Big Day Breakfast
- Trip to Anishas Dads Dairy
- Drove past Peter Jacksons film sets and Weta Digital
- Went to Anishas old work (California Garden Centre)



A Small selection of photos from the trip. Almost 200 more of this trip are available in my Photo Gallery! [Requires Account]

A special thanks is due to Nigel for picking us up from the Airport.

Useless Information: In 1785, the city of Paris removed bones from cemeteries to ease the overflow of dead people. They took these bones and stacked them in tunnels now known as the Catacombs. You can visit these tunnel attractions and work your way along long corridors, which are stacked with skulls and bones.