wobbly wellington

well, today started so well.  the taxi man picked me up at 5.20 and we collected two of my colleagues on the way to the airport.  there were a couple of good stories in the paper. one about a lorry spilling watermelon, mushrooms and zucchinis all over our local motorway to the headline ‘two-tonne spill causes salad chaos’.   and another story about a man who gets post for someone else.  all classic stuff.

however, when we got on the plane fog came in so we were delayed 30 minutes taking off.  that was fine, but as we approached wellington a gale was in force and we had a VERY wobbly last 20 minutes in to the airport.  we then got a taxi to our meeting room which was on the 17th floor of a building on the waterfront. 

being so high up and so windy (winds of 130km/h) that the room itself wobbled.  and i don’t mean just a bit – it was REALLY moving.  enough to make me grab the desk as i was presenting at one point.

anyway, despite all the movement (and the fact the advertised soup was 4 days old) it all went well.  my presentation was ok and not to chunderous (handy given the flight) and my boss asked me to compere the afternoon.

of course we were dreading the flight back at the end of the day.  we were delayed a bit and as we sat on the plane it wobbled about pushed by the wind.  but once we got going we wobbled quickly through the weather and within 15 minutes it was flat as a pancake.

in fact the rest of the flight was just lovely.

so there we go.  my first experience of windy wellington.   

i’ve no idea what anyone else has done today i’m afraid as i left before they got up and they were all in bed when i got home.  except jane who is out at her tuesday night singing lesson (on a monday evening).