On Wednesday Siobhan returned to Christchurch for her whirlwind tour. There was a bit of confusion with Dace over who was picking up who at what time, but eventually Mum, Dace and I all ended up at the airport to see her. Some of Christopher’s (her boyfriend) relatives were there as well, although I’d never met them before. We head back to Mum’s place and talked for quite a while. Grandma and Grandad showed up, I went and got the gas tank filled and after a while ended up heading over to Dad’s to see Dad for a bit. I saw Daniel briefly, then went up the hill to Rach’s parents’ place to see Rach, who was house-sitting. We had dinner, played many games of backgammon and I ended up crashing on the couch.

Other things I did this week: had dinner with Serah, coffee with Will (was neat to see him again), lunch with Siobhan and Dace, visited Jem’s flat (more of a house, really… what is it with people I know having not-flats?), played taxi for Siobhan and sent many, many text messages arranging to meet up with people! Since I got another “it’ll be done Tuesday/Wednesday of next week” from the laptop people this week, I have to give thanks to Gareth for him letting me borrow his little travel laptop, that’s certainly been a big help.

I hung out with Rach some more, went and saw Fantasic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (randomly seeing Andrea and David at the theatre, which was an awesome random “Christchurch moment”), went out on the town with Serah, Adam and friends… I did a fair amount of social stuff this week, which was nice. I also managed to have a quiet night in as well, which was also nice. ^^

Family dinner tonight, first one with Siobhan… naturally she gives me endless amounts of shit about my hair, to “make up for lost time” while she and I have been in different countries. I swear, one of these days I’m going to open my email to find one from her that just says “Get a haircut” and that’s it.