today was a good day. after some skyping the girls had their orchestra lesson.
when they got back kezia jumped on her bed and cracked one of the wooden slats so the two of us then went to the local DIY place to get a new piece of wood which was nicely cut to size. it’s a bit thinner than the other pieces though so i suspect it may soon suffer the same fate but it’ll do for now. anyway, that wasn’t the good bits of the day.
after we’d mended the bed and had lunch we drove in to town in search of the photography festival, and the Auckland triennial art festival. neither of which allowed us to take photos unfortunately, but it was a good selection of modern arty stuff which was jolly good.
this chalk thing above was not anything arty. it was just chalk on a giant concrete statue which sits in town. i thought it looked nice though.
whilst in town we went to the highly popular gelato ice cream place which we’ll take you to if you visit
then this evening we went to some english friends house who live in a fantastic house not too far away. they invited a couple of other poms who happened to live next door to the people who used to rent the house where we live in (just to prove what a small world it is). we stayed for yonks, the girls ate melted chocolate and the grown ups ate italian type food.
a good time was had by all. on the way out the door we mentioned about going back to our cold old house and they took pity on us and leant us two oil heaters. excellent stuff !