friends and food

the day started off rather similarly to how the evening before ended – with jane and i in a restaurant being rather full of food.  this time jane and i went to Takapuna to have our breakfast in a rather posh cafe near the beach.

it seemed most of north Auckland’s posh set were out and we had great fun people watching.

afterwards we went for a short walk down the beach which overlooks Rangitoto.  there was a lady doing that comedy standing up on your surfboard paddling along thing

and there was some kind of youth group doing their maiden voyage of some home made canoe type thing which was also fun to watch

The we rushed back in time for the girls to come back.  Somewhere along the line our first Trademe sale was made – the flymo that we bought a few months ago proved to be too feeble for kiwi grass so we put it on the kiwi equivalent of ebay and nearly managed to get as much back as we had spent on it originally which was a bit of a result.  the chap came round and collected it this afternoon.

our friends the Dunnings were attending a football match at the local stadium as one of their daughters was being a ball girl.  they popped by for coffee in the afternoon before the match and took kezia with them. 

Then Abbie and Darren arrived.  i used to work with Abbie in the UK and she was one of the key people in getting me the job at Telecom.  The three of us then wandered over to the stadium to collect Kezia, and ended up watching a very good match of ladies football for half an hour.  Abbie knows Buzz through work as they do similar jobs (corporate responsibility stuff) so they had a good chin wag before heading back home via the local play park.

Kezia showed a short cut to Darren. Then we had dinner with Abbie and Darren before sitting out on the deck as the sun went down (and the mozzies came out)

so a nice day with a good mix of spontaneous and planned, fun and housework.

tomorrow jane is doing her first kiwi run meaning she’ll miss church. although the plan is that the girls and i should be able to get to the stadium in time for her to finish (a good incentive on her to be slow).  then there’s a church picnic on the beach weather permitting.

(the picture above is from the cling-film warning that the end of the roll is approaching)