jane and i had a weekend all to ourselves as janine and james kindly insisted on looking after our girls for the weekend!
after dropping the girls off we drove in to parnell for a late breakfast and then a wander round the shops
when we got back to the car the battery was flat as i’d left the lights on. ooops. we phoned the AA and waited. and in the time it took for the AA to come we’d sorted out various domestic organisation things we’d wanted to discuss during the weekend, so it actually turned really well!
we needed to give the car a good run to recharge the batteries so we drove an elaborately long way to Piha where we had a rather windy and a bit chilly walk
then it was over to our hotel for high tea, then snooze / book reading / olympics watching until dinner at 8pm.
we had a little walk round the grounds too before the rain and wind swept in.
this is the bar / high tea area.
here’s the clouds clearing away
and here’s our room with it’s bizarre flaps so you could talk to the person brushing their teeth from in the bedroom
this being new zealand we bumped in to some friends in the hotel who we’d met a few times at friends house. we were sat next to them at the dinner table so it was hard to pretend not to see each other!
it was jolly good!
