The weekend in the Wairarapa

Hi,

Well, it was a pleasure to help celebrate someone's birthday (Teri - friends of Ange's and Celia's really) over the weekend in the Wairarapa.  Someone that can embrace the birthday experience a bit more like I do.  This was huge!

Mike, Toby and I got home on Friday after work (after saying goodbye to Eugen - it was his last day at work) and finished packing and headed off.  The drive over the Rimutaka Hill was really horrible.  Windy and raining.  We passed an overturned car heading back to Wellington on the Wellington side of the hill.  Looked like it had just happened.  Plenty of people stopping to help, so we threaded our way through the stopped cars and kept going.  I took it even more carefully after that.  On one corner on the Wairarapa side a huge gust had me fighting the car a fair bit.  I was glad to get off the hill.

We found our accommodation and we all instantly fell in love with the place.  Toby said it was just like Luke Skywalker's house on Tatooine.  He was right, you know.

Lounge

Kitchen behind

There were two bedrooms off the main lounge - one to the right (Toby's) and one to the left.  And each had an en-suite.  One had a shower (ours) and one had a bath (Toby's).

We settled in and I went to bed fairly quickly.  Toby stayed up to watch Wayne's World.

The boys approach the house

Awesome breakfast at Medici

Next morning we got up to have brekkie at Cafe Medici where I have had a few meals previously.  Yum!  Then back to relax before Mike and I went for a bike ride.

That cute church again

My shadow

Wairarapa scenery

From there we rode to Columbo and enjoyed some wine and food with Teri and all her friends.  Such a lovely afternoon in the sun with good company.

Back to the house to make sure Toby was surviving fine.  He was.  Then off to buy some meat for the BBQ dinner.  Huge event spread over multiple houses.  Watched the first half of the rugby before Toby and I headed home to watch the second half.  Turns out our Sky subscription didn't cover Sports.  Doh!

Read lots while Toby watched TV.  Mike got home and they both watched TV while I continued reading.

Off to bed.  Slept well, but stupidly stayed awake until 2am reading.  And it was a howling gale when I woke at 6am so I went back to sleep instead of going for another ride.

We got up and packed and then met everyone at the Village Cafe.  We enjoyed another brekkie before heading back to Wellington.  The rain was fierce through the Hutt Valley.  I went out grocery shopping in more rain later.  Got some ironing done.

What a lovely weekend.  We want to head back to that house again.  Such a wonderful house.

Have a great week ahead.  It's a long weekend in Australia.  Happy Queens Birthday.

Love,
Angela