November 19, 2012

  • Friday 16th November

     

     

     

    Another beautiful Spring day.

    Bri & Abby headed off after breakfast.

    They were picking up a double kayak Bri had bought in Motueka.

    Then they spent Fri & Sat kayaking the Able Tasman.

    They had great weather so were very happy girls.

    Ellie & I left at 9am.

    She had gone off to milk the cow with Lydia and was so excited to have been able to hand milk!!

    I felt a bit bad at having to drag her away but I had a mission to pick up Azzan and be at Andrea's for his piano lesson by 10am.

    There was road blocks due to logging along the way so we were prepared for waiting times but when we go there we only had to wait about 2 minutes.

    Azzan had his lesson and then we zipped into town.

    I stopped off to do some bulk shopping on the way.

    Waited for Ellie to have her blood test then we got lunch and went to the Queen's Gardens.

    We wen to the Chinese garden and sat in the sun to eat and relax.

    It was lovely and peaceful.

    I left Ellie & Azzan to walk back into town while I went off to do some jobs.

    My afternoon didn't turn out to be as busy as I thought it would be as one person I was due to see was sick.

    I arranged to meet up with Phoebe, Ellie & Phillipa for a coffee.

    We decided to go to Hanger 58 and sit in the sunshine as Phillipa & Phoebe hadn't bee there yet.

    Azzan & Jacob hung out at the library.

    We hadn't realised that it was the grand official opening of the place until be saw balloons being tied to tables.

    Nathan was just about to begin his shift for the day so we chatted with him for a while.

    A reporter was wandering about taking photos for the social column of the Nelson newspaper.

    So if you are in Nelson look out for the four of us in Tuesdays editions

     

    We had to head off an hour later and get on with more mundane parts of our lives.

    Ellie & I decided that we would get food and go back and cook dinner for Seb & Phoebe.

    When we got there Seb was home and trying to wade his way through a huge pile of laundry.

    Phoebe is not at all well right now so has very little energy and also cannot handle being around food.

    So she rested and we got stuck in and helped Seb do a big clean up.

    Azzan did all the dishes while Ellie peeled carrots and then made dinner.

    I helped Seb with the washing and then we cleaned out and moved the freezer.

    It was great to sit and have dinner and feel like we had achieved something

    We left Azzan to stay with Seb and Ellie & I headed around the corner and found our beds for the night.