Getting ready for work

We left our campsite quite earlier this morning conscious that we didn't really have a plan or know where we were staying tonight. After using the log burner hot pool last night we really didn't feel any need to visit the Hamner Springs pools even though it is what this area is known for. If we had stayed here during the first part of our trip we may have felt differently about it but now we've reached the point of not being too fussed about doing things that are similar to what we have experienced before. The route back to Christchurch was rather pleasant but rather uneventful and it was evident we were back in the flat planes of Canterbury. We eventually ended up in the familiar the city we've become quite familiar with and spent time visiting different Savemart stores on the hunt for work clothes for Nick and jeans for me. Because I've been buying my jeans second hand here in NZ they wear out pretty quickly and this happened to the latest pair so I needed to grab some new ones to see me through calving. It's almost impossible to have motivation to look through racks of jeans that are in no order what so ever. Not in size order or even in colour. With hundreds of pairs on a rack it's pretty mind numbing searching for your size to then have to look at the colour and style to see if you even like that one pair you've managed to locate that might fit you. I headed with Nick to the changing room to try on 12 pairs and luckily found 2 that I liked and bought. I think his brain had turned to mush by the time we left the store so we sat in the carpark eating some sandwiches for lunch feeling at least like we had accomplished something. We felt as if we'd exhausted Christchurch's attractions and things to see having been here a fair few times so we decided to visit the cinema as one last trip together before we start working and having different days off. We visited three different cinemas in the city only to discover that the carparks either had a 2m height limit or were only 120 minutes parking which isn't enough time to watch a film. When we found out that carparks often had an upstairs with longer parking for the cinema customers it was rather annoying to discover once again that the height limit became 2m in that level. We ended up looking at suburbs outside the city and found a pretty small cinema in a town close by. On the phone we were told the cinema had plenty of street parking that's unlimited time wise so we set off in that direction. After booking our tickets to see Adrift we wondered around the high street to fill the time and soon realised we'd been to this area before. It's where we visited the UK food store right at the start of our travels in the car and we headed back there today to get some sweets for the cinema. The cinema was even smaller than expected with only 12 plush seats in each of the 2 screens it had. The film was emotionally fantastic, eye opening and a definite recommendation to anyone who likes films based on true stories. When we left the cinema it was pretty dark and late so we headed south for about 45 minutes into the middle of nowhere to a freedom camping spot. Many other campers were there so it felt pretty safe and after choosing our spot we began our nightly routine conscious that this is one of the last nights we will need to assemble a bed and cook in the tiniest kitchen ever.Read more