Monday 1st March 2004, Day 170/366 - Christchurch, New Zealand.

Finally found someone who I can play keepy uppy's and head tennis with and then she goes and breaks her leg trying to do the Ardiles rainbow flick. To be fair she managed it a couple of times before she fell awkwardly and up came a swelling the size of a baseball on her ankle.

I took her down the hospital and got all the banter from the nurses about how the hard bit in the lump was bone and how it looked dislocated and how some fractures needed surgery and how some didn't, but it's okay because the good surgeons were in today. After several people came round and prodded and poked, the x rays showed it wasn't broken, just badly sprained. So Liz is on crutches.

I think she was a little reluctant about going to the hospital as she's american and it would have cost $1000's back home. Here however all the treatment was free. The wonders of free health care.