The Unbalanced Libra..

Today we move again, ending our stay in the Atrium Motel which we called “home” for 1 month in Hastings, and driving 2 hours South to the town of Palmerston North. K and I woke up around 9am and started to pack up and load our luggage and stuff into the car. Actually, K did most of the loading, and A helped. A and Ah Ming had moved downstairs to a smaller unit the same morning.

I did the checking out, and said my goodbye to the landlord Janine. We hugged and promised each other to keep in touch and send pictures of our babies when they are born.. It was nice. K and I left with A in our car, and drove to return our last DVDs, and then to the bank to transfer A's salary from my account into hers, cause she had used my name to work in the vineyards for the past month.

We drove for about 2.5 hours, and reached Palmerston North around 230pm. Our plan was to get there in time for the dim sum lunch at Chinatown restaurant, but we figured we will miss the timing, so we ended up having Macdonald's in Hastings before we left instead.

When we arrived in Palmerston North, we decided to head to the dim sum place anyway to check it out, and true enough, it was closed for lunch. So we headed to the museum and learned about the history of the Maori people, the Freemasons community and The Salvation Army in New Zealand.

After our little museum tour, we headed to The Plaza shopping center, walked a bit and had a muffin and a cup of hot chocolate at Starbucks. Best hot chocolate I've had by far.

We arrived at Becky's house around 7pm after our Japanese dinner at Fujiyama restaurant, and had a long chat with her. Becky is a senior team leader at a travel agency called “Flight Center”. She has a black cat named Felix, which Becky describes as fat and extremely “talkative” cause Felix mews a lot. Becky has 2 bookshelves in her living room full of interesting books related to travel and famous people. She mentioned this particularly interesting one about a guy who literally walked his way around the world.. I find Becky really outgoing and open, I guess it's the result of having traveled quite a bit. She knows a lot about Asia, having worked in Bangkok for a year, and also Malaysia. She knows Singapore very well too, cause she does tours from Singapore to Malaysia.


After our long chat K and I took our showers, which was hot, but the water pressure was so strong that it was actually painful for me.. We tucked into our double sofa bed, which was very cold despite the thick feather blankets Becky gave us. Sigh, i had expected our own bedroom.. The wind was so strong outside I could hear the howling at night while we were sleeping. I was half worried our car will get blown away!