Most Boring Friday Night Yet

Finally the weekend has arrived. Friday came and went. Didn't do much. Had to do active recovery after the brutal boxing skills training on wednesday. This is to remove lactate buildup in the muscles. What was I thinking on wednesday evening. Should have done warm down and run off the lactic acid after the workout but I wasn't thinking properly that evening, because I have not been "tekaned" so much since NS.

Anyway I was chatting with this american classmate of mine, just catching up about how we spent our easter holidays. And I asked him how his hitch-hike to Queenstown from Christchurch went. It took him 2 days and 10 trips from kind drivers before he got there eventually. What an experience. And during dinner tonight, I was talking to another american friend, asking him what his plans after the exams were. Apparently he is doing religious studies and only has 1 exam paper to take. He intends to ask his professor to let him take it earlier so he can travel more.

But here's the funny parts of our conversation (let's call him A, the reproduced conversation may not be as funny as it seems. But during dinner time, the setting, the people, the actions all added up to make us laugh until people at the next few tables were looking at us and wondering what was going on):

A: I want to hitch hike to Auckland.
Me : That sounds interesting .... (and I relate to him my classmate's hitchhiking experience from christchurch to queenstown). So what about the Cook Straits? You intend to hitch hike on some sailing vessel/interislander? Or swim across?
A: Oh, that's the only part of the journey where I will pay for transport on the interislander. So do you know how much it costs to take the interislander?
Me: About 70 dollars. Do you know a one way flight from christchurch to auckland costs only $99 on Qantas? So for that $29 you save on transport, you intend to spend about 2 weeks hitchhiking your way up to Auckland? Are you sure you want to do that?
A: Hmm...that's a good point. Actually my friend who has a van is the one who wants to hitchhike. I am just accompanying him. We think it's going to be a good experience and the kiwis are some of the kindest drivers in the world.
Me: Well good luck then. Look forward to hearing about your trip!