The hot air balloon festival went from 11 to 15th of April this year, and the finale was on last night at the university grounds. The finale was postponed from 14th due to the weather, and it only rained for about five minutes around five yesterday.
MQ came to our house in the morning to hang out with Fuzzy and me. I was trying to tidy up my room, taking the winter clothing out from my luggage. I didn't pack the summer shirts away yet, because the weather is still unpredictable. It's still warm in the afternoon, and very cold in the morning. It was about 10 degrees in the morning yesterday.
I gave MQ the opportunity to try on some of my dresses, and she put on her brown dress at our house in front of the long mirror. That dress really suits her. Fuzzy and my dresses suit our figures.
The three of us had lunch with mum, dad went to Mr. Young's house to have lunch with his university alumni. Mr. Ho came over from Taiwan to stay for good this time. He's a nice guy, and he should retire at this age and enjoy life in New Zealand. His daughters and wife are both here. He lives on a farm that has a garden that he had recently landscaped. We will certainly see a lot of him in the future.
I washed the dishes after lunch. The weekend would be the only time that I do any housework because normally I am too tired and lazy to help out much. I also got the chance to vacuum my room this weekend. Ya! The ground is much cleaner now.
MQ took us to her place in her fancy car. Gogo, MQ's boyfriend, was still playing soccer when we got to Hillcrest. We enjoyed the afternoon looking at her pictures in Europe and Fuzzy played with the Sudoku generator. We also played a bit of a Hangman using a plastic blue Sam hanging man device. That was fun.
We walked up to Gogo's place to catch him. He brought the plastic sheet that we can sit on to the ground. There were already a lot of people there, mostly family with kids. Hotdogs, donuts, and sweetcorn were all on my menu, and we checked out the fairyground rides. I felt a bit too old to get on any one of them, and Fuzzy took some photos of me standing in front of the blow-up castle and the sinking Titanic.
The balloons were fantastic. This year we had two chipmunks (a boy and a girl, presumably), and a beagle. The other balloons were very colourful and stripy as well. Max provided the info about the chipmunks, they were 140 feet tall! Wow! I also loved the fireworks at the end. The green fireworks were very beautiful, and the spectacular view just took my breath away. It would be so good to have watched this display with E, but I couldn't find him anywhere. He might still be in Whangarei, and he didn't want to go out with me...that's a shame.
Missing him today. He's sick. Should I text him? I will just wait for him to come tomorrow and ask him then. Hopefully he is not really sick, just hung over from too much drinking. However, there's this bug going around in our lab, he might have caught it. Oooohhh.....poor fish boy.
I miss fish boy!
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