Sunday 31st August

Another gorgeous day.
It is technically the last day of winter but Spring is certainly showing its colours already.
I needed to catch up with Seb before he left so Azzan and I raced into our clothes and out the door in record time.
We were at David & Sasha’s before 10am.
Sasha was wrapped up on the couch, bummer she is not well again.
No fun being sick and missing out on fun activities.
Seb & Phoebe had shopping to do so we drove down tot he mall and while Phoebe & Azzan did the vege shopping at Benge & Co, Seb & I babysat Sapphire next door at Colombus Cafe.
It was so lovely to be able to sit outdoors and be warm enough.
There was an occasional cool breeze so Sapphie found shelter inside her Daddy’s jacket.
Love this photo – look at the hand sizes 🙂

Mahalia & Shoshannah walked down to meet us after church.
They arrived just in time to say goodbye to Phoebe, Sapphie & Seb.
They were heading on their homewards journey.

Azzan had found a compilation of Alfred Hitchcock movies so I went to The Warehouse to buy it with him.
Then left Shoshannah there browsing.
We zoomed up to pick up Mahalia’s bag from the house and headed back home.
It was such a lovely day.
Did I already mention that already?? 😉

Put the jug on, made a cuppa and sat in the sun chatting with Billy while we ate chocolates.
Roses chocolates no less!
What better way to spend a sunny Sunday 🙂

I left Billy chatting with the kids as Jesika had messaged me to say she was off shift and was awake enough to talk.
She is nearly finished her fortnight, budgeting her sleep and work allowances to try and keep herself sane is hard going.
One week of 10 hour day shifts, followed by one week of 10 hour night shifts don’t allow for a steady regular sleep pattern so she is having to learn to adjust and ensure she gets enough quality sleep to ensure she can last the distance.
It was good to catch up with what she is doing, but she finally had to go fall into bed and sleep so I said goodbye and then wandered the garden some more.
The magnolias are all in bloom now but this one is particularly beautiful.
I just love the depth of colour, the shape of each blossom.
Magnificence.

We grabbed a quick bite to eat and zipped down to Mapua to see Ella and go suss out her horse paddock.
Mahalia is looking at all options for Olly at present.
Ella took us on a guided tour of Mapua’s real estate, interesting to see the properties for sale and how the place is expanding etc.
Came back and had a cuppa with her before coming back home for dinner.
The sunset was sooooo cool tonight.
The light streaks were magical.

Love this photo showing the moon in its first quarter high above the setting sun.

Me and my girl tonight xxxx

Saturday 30th August

Didn’t sleep well or long.
Too much on my mind.
Woke early.
Spent time just pondering stuff before it was time to get the kids up.

It was a lovely day to be out and about.
We headed into Richmond.
I dropped Azzan off at Ross & Andrea’s.
He was supposed to be hanging out with Shoshannah, but she had gone off mountain biking with David & Luke.
So he hopped in the car and went to the mall with R&A instead.
Then he hung out at their place, rested, slept and played on the computer until she returned later in the arvo.

We went and caught up with this young lady who was decorating Sasha’s ‘new’ chair.
Mahalia fell in love with it – good score Sasha!

I took Mahalia into the city and dropped her off to spend the day with Sophie.
I was attending Ian’s funeral which was due to begin at 1pm.
I knew it would be a packed service and wanted to be there early.
Miraculously found a park across the road from the church and arrived there about half an hour before the beginning so had time to catch up with a few folk.
Graham was there, he has recently returned from his trip to Phillipines and Australia so it was good to catch up with him.
We sat with Jillian & Colin.
It was a great send off for Ian.
I was already feeling very emotional so was finding it hard to contain my tears throughout the service.
Two and a half hours later we all converged on the afternoon tea tables which were groaning under the weight of so much food.
I was ravenous so was glad to help lessen the tables load!
Chatted with lots of folk.
It is interesting attending a funeral of someone like Ian – you see folk there and wonder how and why they knew him.
The web of his life was far reaching, touching so many lives.

It was nearly 5 when I left.
I was supposed to be meeting someone but he didn’t show so I sat on the riverbank and talked to Sunni for ages.
We don’t get to chat without interruption much so it was good to have that time free in such a peaceful place.
Then it was time to pick up Mahalia, Sophie & Katherine and head off to a certain person’s birthday party.
We celebrated Shoshannah’s 17th birthday tonight because on the day she will be at a camp and we will be in Vanuatu.
We had Crusoes Cafe all to ourselves.
The beauty of a large family is that we have enough numbers to make a private booking worthwhile 🙂

Sapphire wishing her Aunty Shanni a happy birthday 🙂

My camera was left behind so the following photos were taken during the evening on Shoshannah’s camera and also on her new iPhone 4 which I gave her for her birthday 🙂


She thought that her birthday present was just the tickets to Auckland to visit Sunni in a few weeks time so she had no idea I was even thinking about a phone.
As she is the worlds worst at keeping a phone in functioning state it is a real risk giving this to her.
But I am hoping that this one will last a long long time!!

Martin with the amazing vegan stir fry Rami created for him – so much that he had to take most of it home for tomorrow!!

Ross – looking grumpy – guess it was cuz his food came out last!
David, without Sasha who stayed home sick – we missed you Sasha 😦
Party girl – way past her bedtime but she was in party party mode!!

Azzan & Sophie

Gareth & Shoshannah

Cousins – good timing Luke to be here for a birthday 🙂
Ross – happy now he has food!

Luke trying to get his munchers around the humungous  hamburger!!
And the rest are from the iPhone as they played throughout the night.

It was a really lovely evening.
Happy Birthday Shanni – just in case I don’t get to talk to you on the 13th xxx
Love you my darling nearly to be 17 year old.
May your coming year be filled with love, laughter, and loads of blessings xxxx

It was after 9pm when we all left.
I dropped Mahalia off to spend the night with SHoshannah and Azzan and I come back to the house.
Billy had fed Bella for us, so we let her inside and Azzan gave her some tlc before we headed off to bed.

 

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Friday 29th August

I thought I was going to town alone today but at the last minute Azzan decided he needed to accompany me.
We had a few things to do here at the house before we left so it was way after 11am before we hopped in the car.
Mahalia stayed to get on with her school work and walk Bella.
It was a gorgeous day so she took her for a long walk down to the estuary.
We zipped on into Richmond and stopped off at Dick Smith & The Warehouse to suss out prices of hard drives.
All Azzan wants for his birthday is a portable hard drive to load all his podcasts onto!
Because The Warehouse in Richmond has only just opened this week there is a big sale on and we found one there at a pretty good price, so he is one happy lad 🙂
I grabbed a rice ball from the sushi shop next door as I was starving and then we carried on up to Ross’s.
I had quite a few documents I needed to print out for our imminent holiday so I got all that done.

We had a meeting scheduled at 1pm with Anson & Sebastian.
I was pleased to see Cat, Bri & Nick arrive too.
We spent the afternoon discussing future plans and ideas re the farm and how to move forward.
Azzan played with Sapphire in between doing some maths and downloading podcasts onto his new hard drive, etc.

Once everything was over Anson took the others back into town and they headed back to Port Ligar.
Bri & Nick had taken a couple of days off work so were able to go spend a few days there too.
Seb & Phoebe took Sapphire off to go do some shopping.
I waited for Shoshannah to get home.
She had been working at the swimming pool after school so we crashed out in a single on the sofa and talked about the day for a wee while.

Finally it was late and dark so we dragged ourselves out to the car and headed home.
We were really hungry but too tired to drag ourselves out of the car into the supermarket for some decent food, so we swung into the BurgerKing drive through.
Shock horror!!
Got a burger and fries each and munched on them as we drove.
Once in a blue moon is seriously enough to know why we don’t do fast food.
But it filled a gaping hole tonight.
Mahalia had already eaten so we crashed out for a while, too tired to do anything.
Finally headed off to bed but couldn’t sleep.
Was up near midnight getting a bowl of Ricies & milk – tragic day dietary wise

Thursday 28th August

We were all up really early today.
Azzan was very excited so he was up and dressed way before Mahalia was ready so I kept him busy doing small clean up jobs and walking Bella etc while we waited!
We actually left the house by 7:45am.
Total miracle – but by the time we got to Enner Glynn area the kids were able to see why I was anxious to leave early.
The traffic was banking up there already.
We did get to town a bit earlier than we needed to but instead of sitting in the car crawling along for miles in the rush hour traffic, we had time to a few of the small jobs I had lined up.
Then we still had time to go to The Bakers and get a pastry for breakfast.
That made them both smile 🙂
I got a mochaccino so that made me smile 🙂
I dropped Azzan into Fifeshire House at 9am where he met the local Media Works manager Christine, and she introduced him to another guy who showed him round for the next 40mins.
He got to sit in one of the morning breakfast show studios which made him very happy.
Mahalia and I carried on with a few more jobs until he called us to come get him.
Then we headed out to Founders and dropped off all the boxes of books that I had picked up yesterday, they were very happy to get them all. and I was relieved to finally be quite of them all.
The car was so much lighter after that!
Then it was time to drop Mahalia off at Nelson Beauty for her work day.
I chatted with Bedelia for a while and then mosied on to do some other jobs.
I walked the length and breadth of the CBD getting all the info together just to apply for a community service card – man they have really pulled out all stops to make you prove who you are now!
The even demand you get documents that are over two years old!!
As a private individual yo are not required to keep papers that long so Im guessing that part of the requirements could be rather difficult for some folk.
Popped into discuss some stuff with Roni then got Azzan a kebab for his lunch and I got a rice ball from the sushi shop.
Ate on the run.
I dropped Azzan off for his last English session for the term and I headed up the street for my counselling appointment.
Picked him up and chatted with his tutor afterwards and then found a park in the city centre again.
Azzan walked over to meet Mahalia and then they walked down to the library.
I had an appointment with the bank manager which was very interesting.
Afterwards I was quite hungry, but it was 3:30pm and most places were closing but  found a wee cafe I hadn’t been in before and they offered to serve me even though their closed notice was up.
The Vanilla Cafe is tucked in with Cooper & Rouge and is a delightful wee place with friendly staff, lovely food and now I have found it, it definitely is on my list of ‘must return to’ places!
Once I was refortified and my phone was charged up I headed up the street to the lawyers office.
Spent an hour chatting with Jon, I really appreciate his professional counsel and friendly advice. With not having Tim to talk things through with I really do need the help and support of others. I am shouldering a heavy weight which now I am alone often feels a very burdensome.
By 5pm Mahalia had already walked to Kip McGrath and Azzan was calling me so I figured it was time to leave.
We went for a tiki tour  round the river roads to suss out some places and then went to pick up Jane from work.
Stopped off at New World and got groceries before picking up Mahalia.
Cruised over the hill and dropped Jane home, with her groceries and humungous bunch of flowers which some ‘random admirer’ sent to her today – jealous much 😉
We drove straight back to the house, nice to arrive not too late.
Had time to chill out.
Bella was happy to see the kids for the evening.
I hopped into bed & watched ‘Joyful Noise’ and ate my dinner.
I had picked up a cooked chicken, salad and ciabata bread so dinner was nice and easy tonight.

Wednesday 27th August

I woke around 5am but unlike the previous few days I snuggled back down again and tried to sleep longer.
Finally got up just after 7am.
Let Bella out and then had my shower.
The kids were both out for the count so I left them until I was nearly ready to leave.
Made a list of things I wanted them to do and then woke them just before I walked out the door.
Went through the list with Mahalia – all was good.
I drove out to Spring Grove and picked up a heap of my curriculum that was left from what Marianne had been trying to sell for me.
She has sold a few items but there is still loads left.
She was out so I called her and found out where it all was.
Backed into the garage and lugged all the boxes into my car.
They filled the boot plus several on the back seat – whew!
I then drove back to Richmond, dropped paperwork off to Ross and went to visit Sally for a while.
Nice to sit and talk for a while, we don’t often get that time these days.
Joy called after 11:30 to say she and Beth were at the mall so I nipped down there to met them at Ginger Cafe for a cuppa.
Joy’s hot chocolate service was a real picture as was the famous ginger crunch.
Both the ladies sat and dissected it to see how they could make it at home 🙂

Then we had to steam off into the city to meet up with Jane, Sarah & Ava for lunch at 12:30pm.
We met at Deville’s cafe and as it was a lovely sunny day we were able to sit out in the courtyard and soak in the Vitamin D.
Jane with her Aunty Beth.

After Jane & Sarah left we sat and finished out lunches and talked some more.
Then it was time to shop so we headed over to Morrison Square.
Jane turned on her best sales pitches and tried to sell clothes to her mum and aunt – it was really funny 🙂
They did succumb and left carrying bags – you are just way too good Jane!!
Then we cruised into a couple other shops, I found a colourful tunic top in Hartleys on a extremely good sale so I came out of there carrying a bag too.
The only time I would carry a bag out of that shop is during a sale!!
We said our goodbyes and I drove round to Tahunanui to pick up a parcel from John & Sally and then onto Phillipa so she could check out the boxes of books as I was sure I had some of hers.
Ended up sitting and talking for ages.
Had a good heart to heart – I am still feeling very fragile and the tears spill without too much prompting.
Finally left just before 6pm and drove straight home.
The kids had done everything and were just making dinner when I arrived so I left them to it and chilled out for a while.
They had done the beginnings of a pumpkin, feta, spinach salad.
They watched Lovely Bones while the pumpkin roasted and I chucked it all together once that was done.
I took mine to bed and caught up on computer stuff while I ate.
Now it is just after 10pm and I have managed to get both kids into bed with lights out as they have very early rise in store.
Azzan is super excited about his day tomorrow, but to be in the city by 9am from here we have to leave early enough so the rush hour traffic doesn’t hold us up.

Tuesday 26th August

We got ourselves ready to head into town.
I was feeling really fragile and the slightest thing was tipping me over the edge.
Left around 11am.
Called in to see Ross briefly.
Not coping terribly well with stuff so didn’t stay long.
We were having lunch with my old flatmate Gail and arrived there at midday.
They bought a house which had belonged to folk we knew a while back.
Small world!
Gail & Jim have had it completely renovated.
It looks fabulous and have a magnificent view of Tasman Bay.
We chatted over toasted sandwiches.
Gail had been called out to work so we had just over an hour with them.
It was good to meet Jim and catch up on the lost years.
Drove off to town afterwards.
Had a little shopping to do but I was so bone achingly tired and generally really unwell so I sat in car and rested as much as I could, sending the kids in to do what they could for me.
We had a movie and dinner date with John & Sally and I was really worried that I wouldn’t last the distance.
I dropped Mahalia off at Kip McGrath and took Azzan over to Chalindo.
We got a toastados each which seemed to help raise the physical spirits a tad.
We met John & Sally at the cinema, they had already booked the tickets.
We went to see The Hundred-Foot Journey which began at 5:45pm, and Azzan went to Calvary which began at 6pm.
So I got him all sorted with movie sustenance and made sure he was heading to the right door with his ticket and left him to find his way in once the doors opened.
We thoroughly enjoyed our movie – it was so good, the story, the food, the setting, the characters – all fantastic.
Azzan’s finished just before ours so he came into find us, he was very happy with his movie choice too.
I sent him off to the restaurant with John & Sally and I went to pick Mahalia up from the Winningtons.
She had walked up there after her class.
We all enjoyed dinner at Krauts Restaurant.

It was late so we were all hungry.
We all had the schnitzel – just in many various types.
Azzan had vegan, M&I had the chicken and Sally the pork, and John had the lot!!
It was a very pleasant evening and i lasted the distance way better than I thought I would.
We drove straight home, got here around 10pm and crashed straight into bed.
I Skyped with Nathan & Mira for a while before hitting my pillow.

Monday 25th August

I was not feeling great this morning.
Woke up feeling at a really low ebb.
Was thankfully able to can all plans for the day.
I threw a sickie – decided I needed to stay in bed and rest.
So I did.
I wallowed all morning.
Finished watching a dvd I went to sleep over last night.
Had to back peddle quite a long way so must have zonked out earlier than I thought.
The movie was The Butler.
It was such a good movie – really great history lesson as well as many other life lessons.
It really should be mandatory watching!!
I spent most of the rest of the morning in tears.
Just feeling really down, missing Tim.
I keep busy to not have to think, but then I burn out and crash.
Then I have a ‘bad’ day.
Actually most days are ‘bad’ days, I just keep busy to avoid letting it all surface.
I intended to curl up and have a sleep during my sickie but that never actually eventuated.
The kids were not moving along as quickly as I wanted them to so I ended up leaping out of bed and giving them both a bit of a rev up.
Azzan was cool, he had done several lessons of maths, some english and had vacuumed the house, done dishes and walked the dog.
Mahalia………. was sorting her clothes!
Finally got her onto her english which she worked on during the afternoon.
Interspersed with some bike riding and walking of Bella.
I peeled veges for dinner, and put a chicken on to roast.
I lay on my bed for a while and worked on the TEFLink course until I needed to check on the dinner.
I am so frustrated with this oven, it is obviously a new one but I cannot get it to work efficiently.
The chicken hadn’t even begun to cook so I popped it into the small batch oven and it roasted up in next to no time.
I persevered with the veges by playing with different settings.
We had roast parsnips, pumpkin & kumara with boiled carrot rings and buttered parsley potatoes.
I wanted to make a pudding.
I had apples & feijoas and thought I would do a ginger sponge toping so googled a recipe.
Found one that looked good so began mixing it and then realised that it was a completely different thing altogether.
Decided to improvise and tipped it over the fruit and baked it in the oven.
It turned out really good.
It was a lemon-ginger sponge pudding, but because I tipped it over the fruit it went all custardy in the fruit and had a slightly crispy topping.
Divinely wonderful.
I helped Mahalia with some maths before dinner.
Billy came up and joined us for the meal and evening.
Nice to have company, it also makes us cook a bit more adventurously 🙂
I wanted to see the interview on Seven Sharp tonight with Brando as he arrived at the end of his expedition around the coast of New Zealand.
We played a small part in his journey so I feel a supportive interest.
It was über cool to see him arriving at Cape Reinga after covering 600 days and 8000kms.
Left a boy, came back a man!
Well done Brando 🙂

TV was then turned off, kids watched a dvd Azzan had begun before dinner and Billy & I chatted about our impending holidays, Billy is off to Tonga so we googled up where he is going.
Looks really cool.
Bri & Nick called up so the kids were able to tell them our exciting news 🙂
Yes, we are off soon on a big OE.
Actually just two weeks in Vanuatu.
Azzan is counting down the days – he is soooo excited.
I am looking forward to doing nothing of any consequence apart from enjoy the culture, sea life  and sunshine.

It was soon time to head off to our beds so we said goodnight to Billy, put Bella out for her evening wander and then popped her in the washhouse.
Azzan was off to bed first, I am sitting here finishing this while Mahalia is still busy writing emails.
Shoshannah wrote a song this weekend and uploaded it today.
It made me cry again but I can’t help watching it over and over.
I love it Shanni xxxx

Sunday 24th August

Another glorious dawn sky this morning.

I woke early and Azzan slept late.
I didn’t have the heart to wake him as he was sleeping so soundly.
Eventually he was up, walked the dog, did the dishes and tidied the kitchen.
We decided to hop in the car around midday and head townwards.
No particular plans, just a list of folk I wanted to catch up with at some stage.
Sally wasn’t home so we carried on towards Stoke.
Thought I would go find Michelle & Dave – hadn’t been to their ‘new’ place yet, they’ve only been there 3 years after all, can’t rush things!!
I fuelled up with diesel and we got ourselves an ice cream.
As we cruised along The Ridgeway I stopped outside Isel Park to finish eating.
Decided to go for a walk in the park as I had never been there before.
Azzan had been there a couple of times with friends.
It was so lovely.

The magnolia trees are flowering now, I just love these trees and have never been able to grow them at home.
Don’t think they are keen on salt atmosphere

I found this bud on the ground, it is such a beautiful colour.
So huge in contrast with these tiny wee flowers nearby.
 
There were glorious stands of rhododendrons

And camelias – glowing vibrantly in the sunshine.

The remains of a very old tree was a platform for the drama king – pretending to be a tree 🙂

We walked through and found Isel House.
A magnificent building which I am definitely planning to come back and visit during it’s open months in the summer.
Loved the colourful bed of poppies out front.

The daffodils make it feel like spring has sprung already.
It’s not 1st Sept yet but no one seems to have told them!

I noticed a small bridge so wandered across the lawn to it.
We crossed over and followed the path along the creek.

Gail called me to organise a get together next week so we chatted as I walked.
Found our way back out onto the road by going past the old museum buildings.
As I began to head back to the car I heard someone calling me.
It was Michelle.
She & Dave live bordering the park and she had seen us walking past through the trees across the creek.
She didn’t know we were coming & I was about to go find them next so that was really funny.
Azzan went back with her and I moved the car up to their place.
We spent a lovely couple of hours chatting with them.
I had already prearranged to call with Jesika at 12:30pm so I left Azzan chatting and went outside to talk to her.
She is working 10 hour shifts x 14 days at a time, and with the time difference it is hard to tee up a suitable time for us both to catch up.
Azzan remembered that we had to return a dvd by 3pm so at 2:45pm we said our farewells to Dave & Michelle and headed into town.
Azzan was relieved to see the time was exactly 3pm as I put the dvd back in the slot 😉
I was hungry so we went for a wander to find some food but all the kitchens were closing or closed so I had to give in and have a Pita Pit.
Munched on that as we drove around Rocks Road.
I pulled over so I could eat more safely.
Azzan wanted to get out and walk along the Tahunanui beach.
I was a bit hesitant as the traffic was pretty busy where I had stopped but he waited and carefully crossed and then climbed through the chains and onto the beach.
It was a very low tide so all the rocks were out of water and there was a glorious expanse of sand with the beginnings of the spring crowds scattered along the beach enjoying the sunny afternoon.
We found out later that Shoshannah & Mahalia were also at the beach then too!
They were there with friends – they came in from Richmond and back on the bus which they managed to miss!
I picked Azzan up at along at parking area and let him play for a while on a spinning thing.
There were a lot of kids there so he wasn’t keen on staying too long.
We arrived at John & Sally’s around 4pm.
I had a cuppa and chat with Clare and Sally until Clare had to go back and have dinner with Aunty Doris before flying back to Wellington.
Was good to catch up briefly.
We zipped back along Rocks Road and met up with Roni and enjoyed sitting on her appartment deck with drinks and chips watching the sun setting.
It was lovely.

 
When it had finally disappeared below the horizon and the evening air was too cold we retreated indoors and chatted for a while longer.
I was so incredibly tired that I could barely move off the sofa.
But finally around 7pm we headed back to the car and went to pick up Mahalia.
She and Shoshannah had enjoyed a lovely weekend together.
We stopped in at the supermarket and Mahalia ran in to get a lot of bread then straight home to Bella who was waiting eagerly at the gate for us.
Azzan made himself a filled pita bread for dinner and I boiled some eggs and had them with baked beans on toast, tomatoes, avocado & feta.
Took them off to my bed to eat and watched the beginning of ‘The Butler‘.
I think I went to sleep whilst watching………..

Saturday 23rd August

A beautiful morning.
Azzan did the rubbish, swept the floor and walked Bella for me while Mahalia and I got ourselves ready.
I had promised Azzan that I would take him to the market so we headed off around 10am.
Stopped at Ross & Andrea’s to drop off Mahalia.
She is spending the weekend with Shoshannah.
After some banter and conversation I loaded Kathryn into the car and headed into the city.
She had stayed with Shoshannah for the previous night.
Dropped her home and then went down to find a park.
It was after 11am by this time and town was crazy busy,
Guess a lovely sunny (nearly) Spring Saturday morning is rather inviting for folk to come cruise the market.
After circling the carpark several times and about to give up and head down the streets I finally found someone pulling out so I nabbed that space fast!
I had mail to post and some clothes to return to Glassons so we did that first in spite of Azzan’s desperation to get to the market 😉
He had seen some wall hangings previously and wanted to show me them so we went hunting and finally found the stall.
The wall hangings were screen prints of Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn and Frida Kahlo – there were others but they were the ones at the top of his list.
We wandered off to get a Salmon & Avocado wrap from the Wrap Shack for lunch.
Had a chat with Fumio at his stall and then cruised on back to the stall and sussed out the screen prints further.
On chatting with the owner we discovered he is based at Post Impressions in Brightwater, must check it out next time we pass by there.
He gave us a good deal on buying three so I succumbed.
On asking what Azzan planned to do with the ‘tea towels’ he said he was going to hang them on his bedroom wall so he could dream about them – and here was me thinking he was going to dry dishes 😉
It was really nice just to be cruisy and wander in the sunshine with no particular mission planned.
We ended up at Jay Jays and I tried on and bought a couple of summery items, will run them past Mahalia in next few days for a final ok before I commit to adding them to my wardrobe!
I did have several folk I wanted to catch up with but couldn’t reach them or they were busy so we decided to go for a drive out to see if Phillipa & Pat were home.
They had just arrived back from town so we joined them for a cuppa and chat round the kitchen table.
Time disappeared easily into several hours of socialisation 🙂
Azzan got his iPad so he could do some English but was tired so ended up dozing.
Seb turned up mid arvo so joined us around the table.
It was a most pleasant way to spend the afternoon.
Finally we had to all head off in various directions so Azzan and I went for a wee tiki tour to see if a friend of mine was home but she wasn’t so we drove to Arrow Motels  to visit with John & Sally.
When we were last there Azzan had showed John the Rollie Eggmaster and being a Mr Gadget he went out and bought one so he had to show Azzan how it worked.
This is the official video which makes it all look really easy 😉
So into the kitchen the went to create some rollies – didn’t matter that it was 5pm already!

John wanted to try an egg burrito and when following the recipe the wrap had to be a certain size so the tape measure was searched for & used.
Guys in the kitchen are so funny!!

They made these two – both of which were devoured by Azzan and proclaimed to be very tasty!!

Their family was gathering for a family dinner so we hung out with them for a while.
Clare & Jonty arrived with Aunty Doris so we had a catch up before I left.
Azzan was entertaining Lucy & Tristan so John was encouraging me to stay longer 😉
Finally left them to it.
I was about to head straight home but a certain come one convinced me that he really had to have some toastadas from Chilando, so we diverted into the cbd and got 4 – one for me and 3 for him!!
It was quite fun seeing them in night time action, as we had only ever gotten lunch there before.
It was quite busy, a party was in full swing too.
We waited for a while and finally our order was finished.
Smelled so good but I then discovered that I couldn’t eat and drive – according to Azzan – so I had to endure the aromas until I got back to the house!
Bella was waiting impatiently so Azzan dealt with her.
Then I heated up last nights dinner for me cuz one toastados was not going to fully cut it for me.
We watched ‘Good Morning Vietnam’ whilst eating.
Azzan pegged out half way and left me to it.
It was a good movie but won’t go down in my history as being my ultimate favourite one of Robin Williams – he was brilliant as the dj though.