halloween

Jane’s book copies – 94 cartons of them! – arrived from Auckland this afternoon. I helped move them into the house, but missed out on the book party because I had plans with Sabrina and her friends.

It was great to see Sabrina again, and we decided to recycle our construction worker costume idea from 3 years ago, except this time it only took us 2 hours to make them instead of three weeks. We missed Heather, our traditional third partner in crime – the three of us have had the same costumes for the past three years, including the year we celebrated Halloween twice with two sets of costumes.

Sabrina is staying at the Paradiso hostel in Nelson with her friends Lex (England) and Ann (Ireland) from the hostel in Wellington. They’re planning to get a flat in Nelson for 6 months or so. The hostel is great – it has a pool and spa, and little ‘cabanas’ for rooms. The hostel had a costume party until around 10 pm, and then ordered taxis so they could ship all of us off to town and prevent neighborhood noise complaints.

I haven’t been out in Nelson before, and I don’t think I’ve been missing much – it wouldn’t have been much fun to go out with just one or two people, but we had a good time since everybody from the hostel was there.