Leaving Palmy

Before leaving Palmy, we managed a few fare-well dos, including a notorious AWC dinner (thankyou to Trish & Pete for hosting that!). It was a great send-off, including plenty of homebrew, venison ham, and miracle hangi which mysteriously appeared without Mort & I having to dig a hole or get kumara-sticky on our hands.
We were presented with Dr. Oetker's guide to killing people with excellent German baking, then the evening degenerated into a speed-scrabble marathon. Gill's ability to outstrip the rest of the players was plainly due to her "faster-than-a-speeding-bullet" technique as captured here:




Packing our gear up consisted of hurling it into various cases, packs and bags. We'll re-pack properly before we try to get on a plane, honestly. The trip up North included a lot of snow and a freezing carrot.