so, yesterday i headed off for two days in wellington. it was a lovely sunny day in auckland, but cloudy and a little bumpy in wellington
there was a really thin cloud over the top of mount taranaki
anyway, christmas is in full swing in wellington. so i went and sat outside of a cafe some of my meetings
which was a pleasant 18 degrees ish (and less humid already than auckland)
and i walked past a pub with a snug which i’ll check out again in winter
in the afternoon i went for a coffee with eugene
and then in the evening we had a work lunch which involved much serious work conversation
in the morning i had breakfast in the hotel and at one point this bus load of tourists were waiting in a traffic queue and were watching me watching them
here’s the view from my hotel window of Post Office Square
there’s a couple of familiar sites in there.
today was an offsite meeting for my team with lots of serious discussion interspersed with team buildingness
i was in charge of the games so jane and i came up with the ‘World Of Readable Arts’ idea based on the World of Wearable Arts show which was on in wellington when we visited a few weeks back
there were three teams and the first game involved creating fictitious lobbying speeches using the headlines from newspapers
the second was to create a monument to hold a can of coke. And the third and final was to create something wearable.
half the group were economists so there was auctioning of newspapers and scissors and staplers etc which added to the fun. and there was a fair amount of skulduggery too
fittingly my team won ;-) (thanks to the chap wearing the bollard hat)
the flight back this evening was great too. here’s Wanganui
and this is raglan, the hippy surfing place we visited a couple of weeks back
jane is out at choir so i can’t comment on her day, although it appears from her write up yesterday she was quite busy !
kezia finished off her science project glossary and esther heard she hasn’t been selected to be narrator at the school prize giving evening (but is fine with that as she’s got a front row seat and can enjoy the show herself!)
so there we are. i’ve been asked to take a picture of a load of school principals for the company magazine tomorrow as well as swapping desks with someone two seats down, and having a couple of rather large deadlines looming. so that’s all good.
see yas