Off That

After 3 hours sleep I have a rrived at Christchurch airport. Unfortunately I have arrived 8 hours before my flight. The reasoning behind this is that Jamins internal flight to Auckland [before flying to Fiji] was boarding at 6 am. Under the continual pressure to save money we shared a taxi.

Yesterday we had a total of 11 dollars to our name. We had a surplus of food and had already paid for our accommodation. We spent the day playing chess and watching Vd's. Luckily [more by luck than judgement] we were staying the 'around the world' hostel on the perculiar named 'barbados street'. The hostel was very nice family feel to it and they provided with free internet and use of there VD's. They also had a cat which was nice.

The long and the short od it is that we had 11 dollars and the airport shuttle costs 18 dollars.

What do you do?
Correct,
You don a shirt put some smart black shoes on [unfortunately i only had beige trouser to wear - awful look, imagine a badly dressed golfer at the 19th or an American]

So, back to what we should do,

Yes, Go to the casino and bet your remaining dollar to make up the shortfall. If we win great. If we lose, we still have to draw money and incur bank charges, dam you banks (Grrrr)

I play Roulette a little and generally quite lucky. As Einstein [I think it was him] once said

'The only way to win at Roulette is to steal from the table'

I am not as clever as Him, but i generally agree with the aforementioned motion.

Roulette gives you house odds of 5.27%, this means Go home and dont waster your time or your money. But, Hay, this is gambling and its good to feel the heart flutter stomack churn. In makes you feel alive [inset GA's number]

Anyways, We are only gambling 10 bucs so its not that scary.

We said goodbye to our two new South Korean girl friends [not girlfriends - Girls who are friends - its aloud]

Sonia and Hitoni [pronouced Hit-on-me] wished us good luck and we were on our way.

A little side note, Sonia and Hit-on-me (would) were surprised that their bus tour around the city of Christchurch and the surrounding areas[costing 99 bucs] was full of OAP's! Who knew!

We arrive at the casino, the doorman looks us up and down, instantly realises we are high rollers and we are in. Heading straight for the 1 dollar tables. Big boys shit

Our tactics whihc we had previoulst had discussed were simple. 2 * 5 dollar bets on a colour. Stop when we reach our 18 dollars.

The number two is my favourite number, I also generally bet on 4,5 and7. My Mums, Sisters and Dads favourite numbers [cute]

I lean over to Ben and call black [ not putting any money on]

It spins - Black 2.

Me and Ben chuckle [It wasnt a smile or a laugh, 100% a chuckle]

Next spin, I bet ben it will be Red 27 (still no money on it)

Croupier spins, Hello Red 27. In hindsight (wonderful thing) if we had put our 5 bucs on the two bets we would have enough money to get us to the airport and go for a night out, where we would have probably bought girls drinks and they would have walked off after drinking them

[Man rule # 1 - never [unless your girlfriend] by a girl a drink. Water is permitted, but, only if they can not stand or may vomit in your close proximity.

We sit down at the table and put the 1st of our bets on Red

Spins - Black

We put our 2nd bet on Red

Spins - Black

We get up and walk out of the casino and are back at the hostel in 40 minutes (the journey there and back in 30)

Sonia and Hit-on-me found it amusing - Making people smile is what I am about.

We made a cup of Tea and played Chess [Rock and Roll Friday]

So now i found myself at the airport with 8 hours to kill. I have utilised the free showers, eaten breakfast, my ipod is fully charged and I have a 900 page novel. I cant quite face starting the book so its just on the table, so on lookers will think I am clever and that.

New Zealnd has been awesome. I have met some great people and experienced some lovely stuff.

I am off to get a tan and drink Rum in the Pacific.

You are relieved of your duty

Captain Warley