Napier - The Return

Luckily for me I got to see Napier twice. When I got back to Hamilton after our adventure, I was watching Boston Legal on my laptop when it told me that it was running on reserve battery power and I needed to recharge my laptop or else it was going to shut itself off. This is not a problem, I get this message all the time, and when I do, I simply plug my computer into the charger and viola!, it recharges and I continue using it. However on this particular evening I went to plug in my laptop only to realize that I couldn’t find my charger. Anywhere. Believe me I looked. I deliberately delayed calling the hotel in Napier that we had stayed at because I knew if I called there, then I believed my charger to be in Napier, and if my charger was in fact in Napier, it presented me with a slight difficulty as I was not in Napier, nor anywhere near it. However my desire to delay was quickly put to rest when I discovered that I could only call the hotel using the Skype on my laptop, which was trying to run out of battery and die, so I called them, and they confirmed quickly that in fact my charger was with them. In Napier. Where I was not. Clearly the best way to retrieve my charger was to courier it to me at my expense. However, on the advice of a friend, I recklessly decided to drive to Napier the next morning to get it in person.

In my defense, I made the decision late at night, and I am really addicted to Boston Legal, and really wanted to finish watching season two of it. As I have the show on my computer, the charger was necessary, and its retrieval of the utmost importance. I further justified this desire to watch the show by making a poorly constructed argument that it was in fact helping my studies in law, which of course it wasn’t, and isn’t. However people (me) do crazy things when they need to figure out how a season of Boston Legal ends. Anyways, we (I convinced the friend who had made the suggestion to accompany me)  woke up at 4:40 am the next morning and drove all the way to Napier for all of 30 seconds in which I re claimed my charger, and then drove home. It was a beautiful 7 or so hours of non stop driving on a highway that I had seen the day before, just in another direction. I also got a speeding ticket, just to top things off. All of this aside however, we did stop in Rotorua, and spent a few hours mountain biking with my flatmate, so the day wasn’t a complete bust. I am also happy to announce that the rest of season 2 of Boston Legal is glorious and was enjoyed thoroughly.