Game Over.

Yesterday we made our way up from Kaikora today towards Picton and the Interislander ferry. The ferry ride across was mostly uneventful, Simon and I played cards for most of it and met a girl from Quebec. At one point a pod of dolphins was swimming beside the boat but I couldn't be bothered to go see them. I was more afraid the boat was going tip over from 1000+ passengers running to one side of the boat. I did get some decent pictures though of the scenery heading out in the Cook Straight from the Marlborough Sounds.

When we got into Wellington I discovered my bus driver failed to book me a room at the YHA. I also learned that the hostel was full otherwise dormwise. However the nice desk clerk was able to put me in a twin room at dorm rates because it had a view looking directly into the building next door. I took it and also got a dorm booked for five days following it (although I will have to move a few times).

The trouble didn't start until Simon and I started playing drinking games after our dinner from Dominoes. We started with Mexen and then shit-head with the loser drinking. Our game went well enough and then we met up with his friends and started another round of drinking games. Thinks start to go down hill as I was playing with rum and coke instead of beer or wine. Following the demise of my bottle of Coke I began playing with just rum. Bad things began to happen after this. I got up at one point to get some water and apparently I was over there for almost ten minutes. On the way back I knocked into a table and spilled someones soup and didn't even notice (Simon gave him some beer). After this I basically just sat at the table struggling to keep my eyes open. I eventually decided I'd lost the game and was going to bed. I had to be reminded in the morning but Simon ended up having to walk me to the elevator to make sure I made it in one piece. I spent probably 15 minutes drinking from the tap following this and then went to bed. Ten-Thirty at night. Game over.