Tonight at the Pub we were totally slammed. It was super fun and super fast paced and work just flew by. I was there for just over 5 hours, one of the longer shifts I've had. When things started to slow down, around 9 pm, I got a few minutes to sit back and watch the bar and I realized just how cool of a place it really is there. It's like Cheers (or at least I imagine it is - I've never actually seen Cheers). Everyone knows each other, they all have their own little friend groups but they're all really friendly with each other. All of the local fill a little niche in the bar scene and together they make for quite a cool crowd. Although I'm not much of a drinker, I've always thought it would be cool to have a bar that I can call "my bar" - where I go on a regular basis, where the staff knows me well, where I know the other patrons. That is exactly what Top Pub is and I love working there. I'm really going to miss it once I'm gone. Plus all the ladies I work with are really cool. Tonight when I got to work my boss gave me a present as well since this is my last weekend. She gave me a really cute bracelet and it even had some heart charms on it. Although I think it was just an accident I am going to pretend like it was on purpose for Valentine's Day.
Earlier today, before work at Top Pub and after my work at the cafe, I spent the afternoon trying to plot my next month - 2 months of traveling before I get to Queenstown. Although nothing is set in stone at all, I've started to look into prices and dates and hours and etc. for all of the activities I want to do in hopes of avoiding any wasted days where I go somewhere to do something and that thing is closed for that day. It looks like I'm going to need a lot of time to do what I want to do. But it also looks like I might not buy a car and just take the bus around. As of today what I'd like to do is use Auckland as a home base for the next month and take trips around the North Island going to all the places I'd like to see either by bus and/or hitching. Once I get the North Island done, I'm going to take the train to Wellington (the South tip of the North Island) and then spend a few days that. After that I'm either going to take the ferry across, take the train to Christchurch and then fly to Queenstown <or> fly from Wellington to Queenstown straight away. Obviously none of this will work as planned but I always like having a goal to work towards, it gives me motivation to keep moving.
And everything for Auckland is working out very well. The family I will be staying with has offered me an amazing amount of support - as a home base and place to leave my stuff, help with buying a car if needed, they've offered their 20 something children as friends for me while I'm there, they're going to pick me up at the ferry when I arrive - I really couldn't be luckier! And everything is also working out well with the dairy farm.
Okay, I've got to go to bed now as I have to be up in 7 hours for the pig hunt and then have a full day of work tomorrow at Top Pub with the Poker Fun (Harley-Davidson ride).
I hope all is well back home.
A toast to my grandmother who would have turned 90 yesterday - February 13th.
And HAPPY VALENTINES DAY EVERYONE!
Best!
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