Christmas and New Year

 Wednesday 28th December 2023

It wasn't so hot today, which made it more pleasant. It looks like it might rain later on this evening.

We have a few people coming in today, and then it is going to get busier over the racing weekend. 

On our way from visiting Mum today we were held up at the bottom of the Remataka range. There had been a 3 car crash somewhere on the hill. We didn't see any sign of it when we came over. We only had to wait about 20 minutes. Tony was further up the queue and he said he had to wait almost an hour. We followed a car and trailer. We stopped at Featherston and got the groceries. When we got home the car and trailer were here setting up their tent. They recognized us too.

Friday 29th December 2023

We have had a humid warm day today and we had rain this evening. It was raining when I woke up this morning, so I didn't go for a walk. 

We have quite a few in for the weekend. It's the family race day on the weekend. 

There has been a bit of confusion with the booking system. It's a bit hard to explain, but the website has unpowered sites and campsites, which are really the same thing of course. There are 44 unpowered sites and 20 campsites plus the 10 power sites. We only have 54 sites, so it makes 20 sites too many.

Matt (club secretary) and Bernie (volunteer around the place) asked for the 2 sites to be saved for them beside Tony, but we had to put 2 customers on them tonight as all the other powered sites are booked. They had booked, but somehow there is double booking there too. Matt and Bernie will have to wing it when they get here on the 31st.

Sunday 31st December 2023

We had a quiet Christmas. It was just Eddie and I. Darren has been away for a few days, so we think he is with his family. Tony and Alan went to spend the day with their families too.  

After we spoke to our children, over a video call for about an hour,  I realized it was too late to put the lamb in for lunch, so we had it for dinner instead. Ha ha. 

For New Year we went to a bbq at the track manager's house, but we came home at about 11. The wind was blowing quite hard and it made it cool and not very pleasant. If it hadn't been windy, we  might just have seen the new year in for a change. We had a nice evening with the permanant residences, Baz and Matia.