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The man at the centre of the country's most expensive and controversial legal battles is planning a more sedate life from now on.
David Bain is hoping for a job in engineering and a return to amateur singing as he considers life after his dramatic acquittal on five counts of murdering his family.
After a night of partying and little sleep, he spoke about adjusting to life on the outside.
"It's pretty exciting. It's been a fantastic journey and over the past 24 hours there's been very little sleep had by most of us. But it's pretty nice being able to walk out here today and feel what I'm feeling. It's now just a matter of coming to terms with the new status," says Bain.
Two years after being bailed he is still adjusting to life on the outside.
"It is totally different and I have had to reassess what I'm going to do with my life. I think I was quite naive and young back in those days as a 22-year-old. There are a lot of things that I'm still quite innocent of and having to learn afresh and also brand new and some of those things will shape what I do in the future."
Thirteen years in Christchurch Prison have helped firm up his career ideas.
"I trained for many years in prison as an engineer so I'm assuming that will be what my path will hold in the future."
Bain says he was ready for any verdict on Friday.
"I'm confident in myself. I know what happened. And the fact that it's had to go on this long to be proven. Well I'm not going to enter into that debate but the thing when I walked up there, yes of course I was nervous because I didn't know what the answer was going to be. But I was sure of myself. I was confident in myself that I was going to be able to handle whatever the decision was."
Bain calls supporter Joe Karam his rock, a person who has done almost the impossible.
"He's been the one to make sure that I've got through the tough times. The moments that I got through emotionally. He picked me up when I found that I couldn't carry on he got me going again."
And Bain says his loyal friends have kept him sane.
"They've come in and made me laugh and kept me happy and fed me up on jokes and stupid stories of life on the outside - and that's what has kept me going."
