September 16, 2012

  • Sunday 9th September

     

     

     

    I was woken at 8:15am by a text from Diane to say that they hadn't gotten home till 4am so were canning the proposed brunch bbq because they were too shattered.

    She & Wilf had stayed back to make sure the church was completely cleaned up and ready for the Sunday morning services.

    I was all cool with that and sent some texts to the older children to let them know.

    Only got response from Jesika so left her to sort the others when they finally woke.

    As you can imagine there was very little movement from the younger folk until later in the morning.

    We were up and showered long before the children so had time to socialise with Tim & Lee which was nice.

     

    Once we made contact with the older ones and some decisions were made we activated the 3 youngest and headed into the city to meet up.

    The guys had a desperate need for burgers so they congregated at Burger Fuel in Queen st.

    When we arrived they had finished eating so we went for a wander down the street.

    Anson & Nathan - mischievous as ever - decided to fit in with the locals and held hands as they walked down Queen Street whatevah

    We found our way to Mezze Bar where we met up with Tahi & Fern and hung out for a couple of hours.

    We sorta took over one end of the cafe!

    It was heaps of fun.

    Fern was not at all impressed with me taking her photo.

    But she was wooed by Evan and decided he was pretty okay and let him take heaps of photos of her.

    The others all decided it was time to mosey so they headed off to explore.

    Azzan's GO teacher Mary arrived and hung out with Azzan & I for half an hour.

    It was great to finally meet her in the real.

    We walked up the street with her and then said our goodbyes and went to find the others.

    They had been having some fun.

    Shanni took these photos

     

     

    It was soon time to load the travelers into our people mover and get them to the airport.

    Tim stayed at The Mission with the 3 youngest and went home with Diane after they had cleaned up.

    I took Phoebe, Seb, Nathan, Jesika & Evan to the airport to catch their flight back to Nelson.

    Then I found the hotel nearby where Marah & Anson were booked into.

    They were leaving at the crack of doom the next morning so it was easier for them to stay by the airport.

    I stayed and chatted with them for a while and then drove back to have dinner with the others at Diane & Wilf's.

    Sunni & Mat were there too.

    We had a lovely meal but were ready for a not too late a night so left around 9pm.

    We were all very ready to crash out for the night.