A few days in Palmy

I spent most of this week at the annual library conference, this year in Palmerston North, generally know as Palmy.  The conference was held at the racecourse and we had regular views of training.  Very relaxing when your brain is in overload.

A Weekend in Nelson

I spent Friday and the weekend road tripping to and from Nelson, at the top of the South Island.  A group of about 40 of us, mostly kaumātua/elders travelled down to support the opening of an exhibition at the Nelson Museum about the Taranaki Land Wars, the one that we did here in 2010.  We took the ferry between Wellington and Picton and had a really smooth trip each way, by no means a sure thing even on a fine day.

 

We did however have wind. 

And this is the divvy up of the left overs on the way home. We stayed at Whakatū Marae, in true tradition we were fed better than well and gave us a whole heap of food for the trip home. We took over part of the lounge on the ferry and had a slap up lunch, salmon, ham sandwiches, mussels, kina - happy travellers.

Not much happening

It says a lot that the highlight of the last week and a bit has been the return of mini ginger crunches to the cafe at work.