jaded

I felt like crap this morning when I woke up – well, okay, when I got up, since I woke up about five times throughout the night and early morning because of our noisy neighbors. I’m amazed at how quickly everyone was able to pack up this morning when they were all up so late last night! Anyway, the allergies/cold/sinus infection I’ve been somewhat successfully fighting for the past 2 weeks has definitely caught up with me, and I feel miserable.

Hokitika’s famed for greenstone (pounamu) carvings, and Ann wanted to buy one for herself and get a head start on Christmas shopping so we walked around town for a bit and then I went back to the car to take a nap while Ann power-shopped some more. Ok, so normally I’d be a little self-conscious about taking a nap in a car on the side of the road, especially when I’m looking pretty bad from camping out and not showering for a few days, but I was really tired and anyway this is a little town in New Zealand, who would I know here anyway? Yeah, of course, I got woken up an hour or so into my nap by Ena, a friend who worked at my hostel in Christchurch, who saw me and stopped by to say hello and told me the building I was sleeping in front of belonged to the hostel manager. Shouldn’t be surprised by this kind of stuff anymore!