Well, the day started pretty early in the small hours with Kezia crying. We realised that the weather bomb had brought a power cut with it and she couldn’t see and was all confused.
Dave woke early as he needed to drive into Auckland for a meeting, so he could then drive on to the airport to go to Wellington. He was a bit noisier than usual as he tried to get dressed and finish his packing in the dark. However, he realised that the power cut was just trip switch doing its thing.
Then his car wouldn’t start and when it did, it made a really strange noise, so he took mine.
Kezia turned out to be unwell, so she stayed at home all day. I discovered lots of water had come in through the ranch sliders during the night and if I had the washing machine and tumble drier on together it kept tripping the switch in the garage.
On the plus side, I took Esther to school in Dave’s car and had a little drive around and it seemed ok, so I didn’t take it to the garage. My enforced stay at home meant that I sorted out the office and unpacked the last 2 boxes which have been lurking in there since our stuff arrived. I filled in my forms for all my qualifications to be checked by the body that has to do that here to make sure I haven’t made them up, so that I can register to be a teacher. I needed to get a photocopy of our marriage certificate verified by a justice of the peace. Well, there is a letter box up the road which has got Justice of the peace on it, so I went and knocked on the door and a nice older gentleman signed and stamped my papers. I then bought some of his pot plants. So, quite productive in some ways.