Wednesday 30 July 2008

Good Bye New Zealand

I’m sat in a bar, landside at Wellington Airport, its kinda wet outside and a lot of flights are being cancelled, but we are okay so far.

I’ve been in Wellington for a little over a week now and have seen little of Wellington. Kinda thinking I might try to come back to New Zealand in a few years time and actually see some of it.

Trying to think what is newsworthy

- well we had a massive glycol leak (antifreeze) into the ice rink on Tuesday last week, cancelled a show and then added an extra one, so every ones flights had to be rebooked, hotel accommodation extended, you get the idea.

- the get out from Auckland started at 5.30pm on the Sunday, ended at 10am on the Monday, we checked out of our hotel for 11am, went to the airport, flew at 1pm, were in the hotel in Wellington for 3pm, in the theatre for 6pm, worked till 10pm and then went in at 8am on the Tuesday to fit up. Was a busy few days. On yeah and then we took all the ice out on the Wednesday and started all over again with the ice rink.

The get out from Wellington wasn’t so painful. After the show cam down most of our guys and one team of locals started the load out at 10pm. Bob and I went back to the hotel and came in for 6am, when team two started and we released the first team. All of out guys (save Bob and I) went to the hotel. We then continued the load out till 2pm when our guys came back in. We were finished by 4pm

So i’ve now been to New Zealand and saw little of Auckland and even less of Wellington - oh well least I’m not paying for the flights. Hopefully I’ll see more of Australia.

Think its time I head to security, the gate opens in 10 minutes.

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