The weekend in Wellington

Hi,

We had a lovely weekend in Wellington after some weekend madness since - oh - I don't know - forever!  It was nice to only have a few things on and to get a few things done around and about the place.

We got up on Saturday and went into town to see the Unfolding the Map exhibition.  I loved it!  Spent ages looking at the maps they exhibited.

Big felt map of NZ

Hello Dunedin!

Where I like to be!

I quite enjoyed this exhibition.  Mike got some archived WTMC newsletters from mid 1970s from the library archives and was distracted by that.

Looking for Mt Hutt, I believe

From there we went to the SPCA to look at kittens and get adoption papers.  We're going to get a kitten for Mike's birthday in two weeks time.  We're going to get to the SPCA at 10am on a Saturday and select the kitten of Mike's dreams.  We came so close to getting the last wee sad kitten that was there when we arrived late on Saturday.  A wee pale ginger girl.  But Mike wasn't keen on getting one this weekend because we're all away the following weekend.  And she was the last kitten left.

We managed to drag ourselves away.  Toby and I got Mike into the puppy section, but he only stayed there 2 mins.  When Toby and I left to find him, he was in with the adult timid cats, on the floor, giving them some love.

Mike really loves cats.

Back home for a quiet night.

Up Sunday to meet Christine at Te Papa with her friends for an awesome Matariki session - featuring Kai.  We just missed a My Kitchen Rules style event with titi (muttonbird) but watched a great session on clean kai for the whanau.  Green smoothies.  Lots of puha and silverbeet and green stuff.  I tried kawakawa tea.  Dribbled that over myself at one point.

Clean kai

We eventually left and went to help Josh move a couch from upstairs to downstairs.  It was such a big couch it had to go outside the house and back in the front door.  But - ummmmm.  The doorway was too small for the huge couch.

So Mike and Josh decided they needed to take the window pane out in the porch (it was an internal window).  Turned into an epic furniture move.

Time to take the window pane out

And now what?!

But wouldn't you know it?  After that pane came out, it really did fit in.  But it was a close run thing.  If it had been 5 cm longer, I suspect it would still be upstairs.

Josh nearly took the front door off to get the last few centimetres in.  But a little maneuvering managed to get the couch in.

Tidied up and went home quickly to iron and get a few things sorted.  Then off to meet Josh and the boys for Mexican at La Boca Loca and then to see Independence Day (the original one) at the Roxy.  Woot!  Awesome fun.

Back home and a grateful crash into bed.  Up this morning to run into work.  I met Sally at her coffee shop and we chatted for a bit.  We're going to try to catch up this week for dinner out somewhere.

Have a wonderful week.

Love,
Angela