Video from Auckland

John took a short walk to Mt Wellington and took some video. A little sample is here. The weather is becoming lovely and you can see it in the video.



The ASCILITE conference started officially this evening. The welcome was down by a traditional Pacific Island group with their drums, guitars, and men and women dancers. The men were very many and had the woman conferees all a tizzer and the women dancers with their long black hair, grass skirts, coconut bikini tops danced the hula from Hawaii and other dances from Tahiti, Samoa, Fiji etc. It was a jaw dropping and sometimes ear splitting extravaganza to start a conference off.

This was followed by awards. Cathy received one of the two top ones, for long term service to the organization. She has free membership for life. It turns out that she got the New Zealand branch of the organization going.
It was well deserved.

After it was over, a woman offered to take us all back to our places in Devonport. She teaches at a college and her husband is a high school teacher. Jhn and he had a great conversation on the way home as the three women wanted to sit together in the back seat. The drive saved us $5.00 on the ferry.