The Magic Satchel

North Island

I’m officially (sort of) finished (but there may still be additions later) uploading the first half of the trip to flickr, and today I plan on taking a good run at the south. As I’ve been going through I’ve added to just about every description, so I guess I won’t be duplicating the effort on here in the 4 posts from while I was gone (although I may add photos to what I did write)… call me lazy but that is the plan for now.

I decided that there should be 2 separate groups for this because the load time for the slide show and the set in general was taking longer than I’d like, so the two set names you need to look for now is New Zealand North Island and NZ South Island (ooo.. so creative). The link at the start of this post takes you directly to the north island set, and when the south has something worth seeing I’ll add the link at the end.

Other than this there isn’t much to report… the weather has been crap (snow for the last week or so.. I think winter missed me while I was gone) so I haven’t been biking, the Flames got eliminated from the playoffs so I’m not going to games, and in the month I’ve been home I have just been busy reconnecting the wires of my life so things can keep moving forward.

South Island

We will be in town attending game 6 on Sunday, which means I will likely finally be regaining my voice sometime on Tuesday while driving back to BC after screaming my face off at a live game instead if just at my TV. Swollen uvula. I am bringing my hardhat. Though Jen says the Flames have to win the cup before I even have a chance at winning the hardhat bet.

I can see the future and it looks like this:

And does anyone else find it funny that the injury Chara has been nursing is his ribs after he did that terrible “it’s the ribs” radio ad for a restaurant when played for Ottawa.

Karma baby, it’s a bitch… just like San Jose is going to be on Sunday.

Go Flames!
(and go road clearing crew in Roger’s Pass!)

(and Al, you are so going over the waterfall on Saturday… unless you want to see if you can irrigate 5 sheep farms? I know it sounds dull, but Squatter is a pretty good game!)

Yep, p/d/p is still alive.

It may look like it is on life support after last month, but we are determined to get more people out this time around.

The date: May 3rd

The time:12am GMT

The converter: linky

The Theme: TBA – voting for this closes on the 27th of April… go here to place your vote on the theme you want.

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I’ve got 4 days worth of photos up on flickr right now, and it seems I’m able to sort through about 2 days worth before the story telling part of my brain gets tired.

This was the in Bay of Islands, and one of the clearest days I had in my entire trip.

The Flames beat the Canadiens in 6 games to win their 2nd Stanley Cup… this time on home ice! Al has an aneurysm trying to cheer against the Flames.

Teams Montreal beats along the way:
Boston (in 5)
New Jersey (in 6)
Washington (in 6)

Teams Calgary beats along the way:
San Jose (in 7)
Detroit (in 7)
Dallas (in 5)

Worst Stanley Cup playoffs prediction ever? Probably not. But I’m sure TSN’s Maggie the monkey will do better.

Suck it San Jose!