Have You Ever Seen The Rain? (8-10/05/09)

FRIDAY 8TH MAY

Today involved lots of rain and wind, and lots of it. It didn’t let up until we went to watch the rugby at 19:00p.m. The game wasn’t the best 15-a-side game I’ve ever seen and the atmosphere was almost non-existent due to one side of the stadium being under construction for the 2011 World Cup, and the Queensland Reds putting almost an entire U23’s side out. You can’t fault the Canterbury Crusaders for going about their business in an orderly fashion as they can only beat the side that’s put out in front of them, which they did 40-12.Oh yeah, there’s an ex army reservist shooting people in Napier. The crazy fucker’s already killed one police officer.

SATURDAY 9TH MAY

Today was wash day so nothing much to say. The rain didn’t ease up all through last night and most of the day. Outside our van was like The Somme, and that was the concrete part!At night had a curry and watched a film. That’s pretty much what I do on a damp Saturday night back at home.By the way that poor copper’s still lying dead on the tarmac 36 hours after he was shot. And the gunman’s still holed up in his house with an arsenal of weapons.

SUNDAY 10TH MAY

The rain still hasn’t eased up, and Louise and I are bored so we head of to the relative warmth of the City’s casino. We were only supposed to go for lunch, but we ended up spending a couple of hundred dollars on the roulette wheel. To top it off the ATM shorted me NZ$20 as well. While we inside it pissed down a bit more, so at least we weren’t getting wet.On the way back to the campsite, while waiting for a bus, I witnessed the least inconspicuous drug deal ever, you know the type, three people who barely know each other all go outside together for two minutes and when they return they all sit apart trying to ignore one another. I also met the rudest bus driver in the world, who rather than say pardon just shouted ‘WHAT?’ at the top of his voice. Ignorance and bad manners, two things I still can’t abide. That Napier siege is over. One copper dead, two injured, one civilian injured and the gunman did everyone a favour and shot himself.