Say woo and yay

Ladi6 at Music Mountain Matakana

Aye!  Happy New Year to yis all!  Hope 2010 brings you much joy.

I spent Hogmanay in the company of many strangers, at a music festival, on the top of a hill in Matakana, north of Auckland.  It was a 12 hour festival, and given that I was travelling on the bus, I was about the 5th person through the gate.  It was a long old afternoon, punctuated by beer, a tickie wine, and lying on the grass watching the clouds drifting as the beats took over.  Lovely.  Drinks and food were payed for by ‘funny money’ – NZ$7 for one token – a wee bit pricy if you ask me. By midnight I had managed to sweet talk one of the barmaids into giving me a free drinkie, had fended off one rather too eager Kiwi guy, had spoken to the godfather of New Zealand hip hop, and was dancing like a mad thing to the sweet sweet music with loads and loads of strangers!  It was awesome

I think I dropped into bed at 4am.  Lovely sleep.

It’s been a relaxing New Year so far, just pottering about, getting ready and planning for Australia.  I cannot wait to get there… I hope it lives up to the hype!   Looking at the weather forecast it seems to be around 30 degrees everywhere at the moment… so I’ve been out and bought another skirt to wear to try and keep cool… hope it works.  Apparently I will adjust… I hope so!!

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