Serendipty

Today we went to Paraparaumu 50kms from Wellington and met Jay's family: wife Helen and their three children Isabella (8), Cricks (7), and Catalina(6). They are awesome geeky little girls who play in SecondLife and SIMS3. To show my appreciation for Jay's family I offered to cook a 3 course lunch for them. We had stuffed mushrooms for starters, grilled salmon with lemon butter sauce, baked pumpkin, spinach and capsicums for mains, and leche flan with fresh strawberies for dessert. The flan was nearly burnt, but otherwise the meal went down quite well.

After the lunch Lindy called her Wellingtom friend Pania so we can maybe catch up. It turns out she's in Paraparaumu as well and we agreed to meet at the beach. Meanwhile, Lindy and I were strolling past the Kapiti Social Club where I overheard a woman say to an intercom that she was there for Salsa. Did she just say Salsa? I spent a half hour on the net and called a NZ number to be told that there is no Salsa in Wellington until Thursday! It turns out this woman does a weekly Salsa class and social at the Kapiti club every Sunday 4-7PM. So Lindy and I went up and had a few dances before meeting up with Pania at the beach.

After hanging out with Pania, we headed straight on downtown to Wellington and hope to catch some nightlife like a bar, restaurant, or cinima. We ended up in Circa Theatre at the waterfront we watched an improv show held by ImprovFM for NZ$12 each. Just think about it: live theatre for $12 (even less if you convert to AUD), shit I spend more to watch a movie!

It was very serendiptous to be in the same place as Pania when she would normally be 50Kms away, that we were able to find Salsa in such an obscure place as Paraparaumu beach on the three hours of the one day a week we could have found it!

Looking forward to more cosmic setups tomorrow.