Missy & Geoff

Wales for the All Blacks

The megabus
Before the game
Me and Phoebe
The boys and their mo's
Ice skating at Wonderland
View from Ferris Wheel
Nat and Phoebe on the Ferris Wheel at Wonderland

Me and Tanz
Nat and Jenny (her mum)
Tracey painting faces
Me and Geoff
Movember
Me and Tigger

The anthems

Doughnuts after the game
Phoebe and Chris
Phoebe, Geoff, Chris and Me (Sandmere rd flatties)
Me and Chris (he has just left to go back to NZ)
We all met at Victoria bus station to catch the 'mega bus' up to Wales on Friday after work. Armed with snacks and drinks for the bus, we managed to get eight facing seats together and were having a great old time until someone from the top of the bus came running down to tell us he had just received a phone call from someone who had found his bag on the side of the road (which he thought was in the hold along with everyone else's bags), turns out somewhere near the start of the trip we went, rather furiously around a roundabout, the doors of the hold flew open and we lost a few bags along the way. All a bit worried as we were the first stop so our bags were last on. Spend the next three hours feeling a little anxious, however we were SO lucky as out of the 15 or so people that got off first, our 8 bags were still present!

Jim (Nat's Dad) picked us up, we all piled into the back of the van and spent the next ten mintues, completely squashed and in total darkness, good times.

After a great nights sleep headed to the pub around 12 for lunch and a few bevvies, as we were all sitting seperately headed to the game and made arrangements to meet up afterwards. The stadium was absolutely amazing, sat 70,000 people and was quite breathtaking. After singing the national anthem louder than I ever have (sorry for the lack of tune in your ear tanz!) and getting over the disappointment on no haka, the kick off began. Great game but so easy to get distracted as the stadium so big and so much going on at all times. For those of you lucky enough to see me, geoff, tanz and Karl on TV (Mum has it taped !) you would've seen us in fine form with our all blacks and NZ flag - thanks mum! Bit of a downer waiting for a cab / bus for an hour or so and ended up hitching a ride home with a council worker, only to get in the car and realise we only had the address but had no idea where we were going !! Luckily Geoff recognised the bus stop where we had earlier caught the bus and we walked from there. Awesome weekend away

posted by Melissa & Geoff @ 12:54 PM