April 29, 2013

  • Monday 29th April

     

     

     

    My last morning in Wellington.
    I was awake early so had plenty of time to shower and pack and tidy my room.
    I had heard Mel awake with young Toby around 6:30am.
    They had gone back to sleep so I was hoping they would wake in plenty of time to take me to the airport.

    They were
    I had sorted out the books and had decided to post several of them as they are quite heavy and would've tipped the luggage scales against me despite me packing light.

    I lugged my 20kgs of suitcase out and stashed it in Mel's car.
    Then went up to help her get ready.
    While she dressed herself and Toby I was given instructions on what to do re bottles and formula and where to find the baby food.
    This is all so incredibly foreign to me.
    No 1 - I never used baby formula or bottles.
    No 2 - I never used prepared shop bought baby foods.
    No 3 - it is 10 years since I had my last baby.

    But I overcame all those odds and successfully managed to help Mel get ready

    We went via a Post Shop and I packaged up several of the books and posted them all.
    Whew! That literally took a huge weight from me.

    Then we carried on to the airport.
    I had to check in by 10:30am and we made it with plenty of time to spare so no stressing.

    I had time to grab a smoothie on the way through to my departure gate.

     

    Flight was good - I was preoccupied with reading the book of Shand history that I had brought up for Sunni so the time literally flew!

    Plane was a tad late leaving as the connecting flight in was delayed due to weather, but they made up the time and we only arrived about 10mins late.

    Wilf met me and we drove into the city.
    The temperatures were way warmer and my jacket was very superfluous to requirements.
    Was thinking longingly also of my jandals back at home which I had left and packed boots instead whatevah

    Had a quick catch up with Diane at the City Mission and then I walked over to see Sunni.

    I hadn't seen their new apartment so while she heated me some delicious Cauliflower & bacon soup that Mat had made I explored their pad.

    She wasn't feeling at all well so we just sat and talked for a while.

    Then she had the urge to go find dessert.

    Of course who could resist that!

    So off we went for a walk down the street.

    There was no one obviously selling Banoffie Pies - which is her flavour of need right now!

    So found a Gloria Jeans - introduced Sunni to their Cream Brulee frappes.

    The verdict was - not as good as the Starbucks frappacinos - Sunni is into the creamy stuff right now and apparently the cream at Starbucks is better.
    As I don't 'do' cream fullstop I will have to bow to her opinion there winky

    It was really nice just to sit and relax and chat without any need to go anywhere or do anything.

    We eventually walked down to Queen street as I wanted to get a new charger cord for my iPhone at Noel Leemings.

    On the way Sunni showed me some really funky gift shops which I will just have to return to later in the week.

     

    It was weird to think that only 7 months ago Tim and I were walking along Queen St with the kids after Sunni & Mat's wedding.
    I kept on seeing places we'd been and remembering things we had done.

    Just small things but poignant remembrances all the same.

     

    We walked back to meet up with Diane and as I really had had nothing much to eat except for the soup I was getting rather hungry, so we detoured into 'Tank' and got a Pomegranate Purifier smoothie.
    It was really really good.

    Thoroughly recommend it pleased

     

    Said goodbye to Sunni as she went off to met Mat and I walked up to Diane.

    We drove home and had a good catch up chat along the way.

    The sun was setting as we left and I was trying to get a photo on my iPhone but Diane wouldn't stop the car in the middle of the intersection at rush hour for me laughing

    So I had to take it on the move as she turned the corner - promise it was actually far prettier than this, but you get the idea!!

     

    Wilf was working late so after while Diane walked the dog I tried to connect to the internet via their cable.

    Diane had showed me which cable to use so I plugged it in and had all kinds of problems trying to get it to connect.

    When she returned we were trying to nut out why it wouldn't go and why it kept asking for passwords etc that weren't required and then all of a sudden she had a 'lights on' moment and unplugged the cable and replugged it into her computer and then unplugged the other end of it and plugged that into my laptop.

    Duh!
    We were using the wrong end - no wonder nothing was happening clueless

    Away laughing then!

     

    Because she is recovering from some major surgeries she is not cooking at the moment so we hopped into the car and went round the corner to 'Portofino'.

    It was a lovely Italian restaurant with a delightfully attentive host.

    We enjoyed a really delicious meal.
    I had Pollo Camembert chicken and Diane had Filleto Al Vino Rosso steak.

    She couldn't eat all hers so I finished it for her.

    I was ravenous!

    Then just as we finished dessert Wilf arrived and joined us for after dinner drinks.

     

    On the way home we stopped and went through the instructions on how to use train etc for next day.

    This is a country girl talking here, who hasn't used trains a heck of a lot.

    We came home and got sorted for bed.

    It was close on midnight before lights went out.