Well, it seems to me it is nearly Toby ’s birthday and Mike and I have not yet bought him a present.   Yikes!   I think we might start panicking.

 

The weekend was fantastic.   Saturday morning was the swimming – Toby got over his idea the pool was cold and enjoyed his lesson.   His last one for the year as his birthday party is on next week at that time.   We went round to visit Aunty Sally and Uncle Andrew after that to swap cars.   Mike, Andrew and Toby dismantled the old header tank on the roof – as you do when you ’re at a loose end on a Saturday morning.   Toby loved it.   He walked around on the roof and used a hammer.   How much better can it get?

 

I dropped Mike and Toby off at Capital E for the NZTE kids Christmas party.   Toby got to work in Santa ’s grotto and help the head elf make the work targets.   Santa even appeared and gave Toby a toy – just what he wanted too!

 

I met the boys at New World and we drove to the Zoo to meet Vicki and Alistair.   It was Vicki ’s work party and they had hired the zoo for the evening.   Air New Zealand did well!   Sally and Andrew arrived at the same time as us and we wandered around the zoo and had a picnic.   Very pleasant.   The weather was wonderful.

 

Sunday was us head off to the Capital Trout Centre near Brooklyn where Toby was taught a bit of fly fishing and he caught a trout.   We took it home and grilled it on the BBQ for lunch.   It was superb!   They are doing it again in February so I ’ll take Toby again then.   Gramps came with us and he is now our fishing expert.  

 

After lunch we played soccer in the park with the four of us (me, Mike, Toby and Gramps) and we had loads of fun.

 

Then it was time to head out to the Bichan dinner.   Mike and Toby had prepared dessert and we had a great dinner.

 

Now I am back at work to try and relax before the next weekend!   Toby ’s party weekend!   Uh oh!