Hi Chumz, I’ve been a bit quiet on the blog for a while, mainly because I don’t take photos and my life is a bit more home based that Dave’s. However, today I went running with some new running friends and a dog. They are all marathon runners and iron man ladies, so much fitter than me, but I am still alive and didn’t disgrace myself too much. We went for a fab run along the coastline on a lovely sunny day. (Lots of hills) Ran along a beach and up some really steep hills, had a swim in Grannies’ Bay and then ran back. How cool is that?
I am going to have to up my game if I want to keep up with them.
After that it was domestics I’m afraid. But I did collect a book from the library for Esther. They have a great system here that if the council area you live in doesn’t have the book you want, they will get the book in from wherever in New Zealand it is in a library. For a cost of $5. It took less than a week for the book to get here. It came from Glen Eden btw, which is the other side of Auckland. (In case you were wondering the book was Swallows and Amazons forever. What a disappointment – it is two of the books we have already read under a different name and isn’t even about the Swallows and Amazons).
Tonight after swimming we have tea in the Mall again. It’s very good as you don’t have to have what the other people in your family are eating. I was adventuresome and had some sushi and selected some things which I hadn’t a clue what they were. Mostly nice.
and now dave’s bit:
here’s my favourite tree. it’s in downtown albany and i drive past it on the way to the bus station. this morning i walked to get my pedometer score up so here’s a photo
you can really tell the students have gone back. we live quite close to one of the uni campuses and there are shopping trollies all over the place. it’s great.
here’s a cool feature of auckland – it’s so warm tramps can sleep on picnic tables
and here’s something i found in the mall this evening whilst waiting for the girls. this was for sale in kmart. it’s an airbed with a leak. they’ve decided to lower the price from $89 to $62 to make up for its uselessness
anyway, that’s a long way of saying my day at work wasn’t particularly eventful (other than the walk to and from it). dave