One of Dohs Daze(for Jan. 24)
Yesterday was one of those days where we had a series of events that can be summed up by quoting Homer Simpson, “Doh!”
Decided to start off the day by leisurely taking in the sights walking along the beach, taking in attractions at the gondola and kiwi house. The Gondola ride was great but when we got to the Kiwi House we found out the admission had gone up from $10.50 to $25 each. – Doh! No thanks.
So we carried on touring and then I walked into a shop while wearing sunglasses – didn’t see the step down, stumbled in and went over on my ankle – Doh! Had to gimp around the rest of the day.
Stopped in at a cell phone store to enquire about using our cell phone in Australia – turns out we can only top up our minutes in New Zealand – we can’t do it from Australia – Doh!
Bought a new t-shirt with shorter sleeves and got a sunburn above my tan line - Doh!
So we went back to our motel room around lunch time – the Chinese housekeeper asked us (I’m not sure but I think he asked us as he was hard to understand) if we wanted our towels changed. We said no thanks and went into our room. I think he took that as meaning he did not have to clean the room or do anything else. Consequently, he did not give us any milk for the next day. Doh!
We toured around more in the afternoon and picked up a brochure on touring Milford Sound – it said the one way trip would take 5 hours – 12 hours return of which most would be over steep winding roads! Doh! No thanks.
So we decided to change our plans – maybe do some laundry after supper – laundry closed after 6pm – Doh!
Then we realized we won’t have milk for breakfast so we decided to stop in at the grocery store on the way to the internet cafe. As luck would have it, after finally getting to the front of the slowest line-up at the checkout we realized that neither one of us has brought any money – Doh! Had to put everything back and go back to the motel and start again.
We bought something called ‘Wheat Biscuits’ which, judging by the picture on the box, was a type of granola bar – a quick easy snack to eat while driving. Wrong - a wheat biscuit is more like Nabisco Shredded Wheat – dry, dry, dry. Doh!
Then at the internet café we couldn’t believe our luck when we discovered that it was just $5. per hour or 10 cents per minute. We whipped through in just under 30 minutes for what we thought was a great deal for just $3. We were pretty pleased with ourselves until as we were leaving we read a sign that said from 9:00 pm to 11:00 pm the charge was $3 per hour! We could have stayed on-line for another 30 minutes for the same price – Doh!
Some days are just like that. Doh!
Decided to start off the day by leisurely taking in the sights walking along the beach, taking in attractions at the gondola and kiwi house. The Gondola ride was great but when we got to the Kiwi House we found out the admission had gone up from $10.50 to $25 each. – Doh! No thanks.
So we carried on touring and then I walked into a shop while wearing sunglasses – didn’t see the step down, stumbled in and went over on my ankle – Doh! Had to gimp around the rest of the day.
Stopped in at a cell phone store to enquire about using our cell phone in Australia – turns out we can only top up our minutes in New Zealand – we can’t do it from Australia – Doh!
Bought a new t-shirt with shorter sleeves and got a sunburn above my tan line - Doh!
So we went back to our motel room around lunch time – the Chinese housekeeper asked us (I’m not sure but I think he asked us as he was hard to understand) if we wanted our towels changed. We said no thanks and went into our room. I think he took that as meaning he did not have to clean the room or do anything else. Consequently, he did not give us any milk for the next day. Doh!
We toured around more in the afternoon and picked up a brochure on touring Milford Sound – it said the one way trip would take 5 hours – 12 hours return of which most would be over steep winding roads! Doh! No thanks.
So we decided to change our plans – maybe do some laundry after supper – laundry closed after 6pm – Doh!
Then we realized we won’t have milk for breakfast so we decided to stop in at the grocery store on the way to the internet cafe. As luck would have it, after finally getting to the front of the slowest line-up at the checkout we realized that neither one of us has brought any money – Doh! Had to put everything back and go back to the motel and start again.
We bought something called ‘Wheat Biscuits’ which, judging by the picture on the box, was a type of granola bar – a quick easy snack to eat while driving. Wrong - a wheat biscuit is more like Nabisco Shredded Wheat – dry, dry, dry. Doh!
Then at the internet café we couldn’t believe our luck when we discovered that it was just $5. per hour or 10 cents per minute. We whipped through in just under 30 minutes for what we thought was a great deal for just $3. We were pretty pleased with ourselves until as we were leaving we read a sign that said from 9:00 pm to 11:00 pm the charge was $3 per hour! We could have stayed on-line for another 30 minutes for the same price – Doh!
Some days are just like that. Doh!
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3:10 p.m.
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