well, the big news of the day is one of the girls won the Botanical Garden photo quiz The prize is a rather fab electronic photo frame !
Now, i say ‘one of the girls’ because the letter was addressed to Esther. she was therefore delighted about winning and excitedly phoned me up at work to tell me. The letter said they’d put the photo on their website.
a car is ‘clamped’ by bollards for parking in a bus lane
so whilst later than morning jane had a look on the website only to find Kezia’s name and photo. so we’re not sure whether it’s the website or the letter which is wrong and therefore whether it’s kezia or esther which has won. And the ‘lady what knows’ isn’t around until Monday.
esther has been very good about it, but jane and i spent most of the day worried about how we were going to tell her. we should find out on monday. what a rollercoaster of emotions for all involved.
auckland is such a reflecty city
as for me, i had a meeting over breakfast, then headed up to the office in time for lunch at a Malaysian restaurant, then had a meeting with our CEO who supported the recommendation i presented to him (hoorah) and then we went out as a family to the local food maul (sic). kezia and i had mcdonalds, esther had a roast dinner and jane had something noodly.
kiwis love the outdoors lifestyle. this house is incredibly open plan
the girls had their swimming lessons this afternoon too which went well i think.
my favourite scary dolls in the local maul
this weekend we’ve got our church camp in this place. We heard the accommodation is rather, er, basic, so like most of the church we’re just day tripping tomorrow and sunday. no lie ins for us this week which is a shame as we’re all spent !
see yas
(finally managed to take some photos today, hoorah)