Wednesday 10th June: Happy birthday David, and hope you enjoy your graduation today, Will. Today was chilly and grey and the washing stayed in the washing machine. We got up and drove to Oamaru International Airport to take Steve for a flight to Rotorua on the North Island. First let me explain that you can buy a through ticket from Heathrow to Oamaru so we could have arrived here with our 46kg luggage allowance each. However, the plane might not have taken off with all that on board.
The arrivals and departures are combined in one building with the Air Traffic Control building next door. What actually happens is you go in to the one room. A woman checks you in, and the other member of staff puts your luggage on the trolley, pushes it out to the plane, waves the glowy sticks at the landing plane, opens the plane door, unloads the landed plane; meanwhile the lady is making a coffee for the two pilots who are now sitting in the one room with the passengers. Then everyone walks out, gets on board, the pilots check up and down the runway and look up to check the sky is clear and then take off. Not sure what the control tower is for because there's no-one in it. There were 3 passengers arriving and 2 leaving! Then the two staff have a long wait until anything else is going to happen.
Anyway, we drove back to Waimate and schooled during the rest of the morning. In the afternoon another home-school family came to play for a couple of hours, and Jennie (the other mum) and I made sausages.
Peter and Jonathan went to Keas at 4 o'clock, and Edward and I completed his Cubs task which was to collect and record litter from the park.
Once home we had tea and enjoyed reading a book before bedtime.
The photos show the amazing facilities at the airport, and the snow-capped mountains in the background.
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