The Monday back at work

Hi,

Back to busy routine after that huge weekend.  Got home in the car after Mike drove in and cooked tea.  A fish dish with kumara and salad.  As we started eating, Mike arrived and we ate together.

Fish dinner

I went out to collect my bike after its service.  $150 later I have a bike with brakes that work.  Yay!  No random squeaks.  I dropped in to see Sally and Andrew briefly while I was in their neck of the woods and then grocery shopping.

Gorgeous morning here

This morning is stunning in Wellington.  No wind and blue skies above the still fog.  Should be lovely out dragon boating tonight after work.

Enjoy your day!

Love,
Angela

The weekend with the last of the Bruce tour and Angus pick up

Hi,

What a huge weekend!  Mike dropped Toby off at the station with Sally and Andrew to catch their Kiwi Rail train to Auckland and went to see the panel beater (someone hit our car while Mike was parked at the Tongariro crossing a weekend back).  He then got home and I jumped in and we were off.

We had lovely weather and the new expressway bypassing the Kapiti coast was open.  That filled us with awe and pleasure at our taxpayers dollars building something to make lives easier.  As we went through the Desert Road, Mike realised we were able to meet the train at National Park - and get lunch at their nice station cafe.

Most of my Bruce 2017 wristband collection

National Park train station

Mike having lunch at the station cafe

We surprised Sally, Toby and Andrew and chatted away to them for 5 minutes before the train headed away again.

We drove up through Huntly way for a change.  We hit Auckland traffic and crawled for 12 kms through the southern motorway before getting to the Strand train station a good 20 minutes before the train.

Bye Toby, Sally and Andrew - see you in Auckland!

We headed to the Sampson house (via a pizza place) and stayed up for hours singing with them.

Singstar!

Next morning we headed to Anne's house to pick up Angus (Anne's name for her gorgeous Yamaha R6).  Wally came with us and we dropped him at Peter's house and he collected his bike (also a Yamaha) and it was so good to have him with me for riding the bike for the first time in unfamiliar streets.

Anne's driveway as crazy for the first time on that big bike.  I tried to maneuver it around a bit in her driveway and almost dropped it (it is heavy for me!).  Eventually I had it aimed up her steep driveway - she was keeping the gates open.  But as I gunned it, a car came in!  Yikes.  Fortunately they could sidle down past me.  I tackled it again and finally got it up and away!

As I followed Wally around some suburban streets, I stalled it a bit.  It revs so high I was worried about taking off and popping an inadvertent wheelie.  We wandered around a bike shop while Mike got a new helmet - just in case.  I had a good ride out on the motorway to Whenuapai and then we ate quickly and all headed to the concert.

Parked the car 20 mins from the stadium and found our gate and met up with Sally and Andrew.  Got in and staked out our place about 15 people deep from the stage.  Good location.

Waiting for the concert to start

Toby and Wally loved Jet - the support act.  Marlon William was good too.  But Bruce was in fine form, as usual.  But it was quite different from Hunter Valley and Christchurch in nature.  No requests taken.  He did Johnny 99 which was from left field a bit.

Got home late and didn't get up and away at 6am like I was hoping.  I decided sleep was probably best.  We ended up not leaving until 10.30am!  The bike behaved well.  I put petrol in any chance I got.  First at the services at Papakura.  Then every 170km or so we stopped.

I found it very hard after the first 2 hours - I had forgotten how hard it is to ride a bike.  It isn't as passive as driving a car.  By the time I got to Bulls and got off for petrol, everything was shaking.  My shoulders got sore as I rode, but if I stopped for a while, that disappeared.  We had a late lunch at Turangi - 4pm.  I enjoyed my ride alongside lake Taupo.  Gorgeous day for it!  I lost Mike and Toby in Matamata as they circumnavigated a roundabout twice trying to find the route south.  I knew the way so I took off.  Never saw them again until Turangi.

There was a big accident on the Desert Road.  A truck was rolled over and three fire engines and an ambulance were attending.  I stopped the bike in time as I crested a hill and saw Mike's brake lights come on.  I was conscious of other traffic coming behind, so I sidled alongside Mike on the shoulder and turned off the bike.  We only waited about 10 minutes before the waved us slowly though.  They had closed the road from the Waiouru end - sending everyone via National Park.

Turangi for a refill

At Turangi we decided that we should head for Palmerston North and leave the bike there for a week with Iona and Col.  Best decision ever!  I was tuckered out by then!

And what's more - it was Col's birthday so we timed our visit perfectly!  She has a new smart phone.  Her life is about to be revolutionised.

Got home just before midnight and it made for a hard wake up call this morning.  But we're all at work/school.  Yay!

Great weekend.  But I need the hectic schedule to let up soon.  And I need a lot of sleep tonight.

Have a wonderful week.

Love,
Angela

The Bruce tour 2017

Hi,


What a wonderful week stalking Bruce and enjoying my birthday!  Mike and I left Wellington super early Thursday morning and Toby was left at home with his Nana.  Our flight to Sydney was easy and we picked up the car with no issues at the other end (although the car rental woman took a while to warm up to her customer service job - but she got there in the end).

Drove out to pick up the house key from Scott's work and met Rachelle (who knows us well - or rather, our 20 years ago selves - as she had scanned all our old negatives for us).  Went to Rouse Hill for a wander around and sushi for lunch.

Back to the house and settled in.  I met Abby and Tyler at Abby's physio appointment and learned how to tape her ankle.

Friday was my birthday and Karen had the day off.  We headed to Rouse Hill and saw Patriots Day.  Great movie but hardly romantic birthday fare.  It was full on - especially during the bomb scenes.

We had lunch afterwards at a tapas place and enjoyed some scrumptious food.  Then Friday evening was spent at the athletic park to watch Tyler in javelin.  Mike helped Scott as a parent volunteer.  I saw them both narrowly avoid an errant javelin once - but Mike says they had to avoid two of them.

Saturday  saw us have fun at the local Park Run.  Scott and Mike both ran in it.  I volunteered as a marshall along with Abby and her friend Bella.  Mike did a stunning time of 35 minutes.  What a great effort.  Scott also did well with a better time from his last run.  Mike is keen to find one here and join in when we have free weekends.

After that we headed off for Hunter Valley and the Bruce concert.  After navigating Sydney freeways and arterial roads, we got to the general area and realised we'd need sunscreen.  We stopped in a town called Cessnock, which was lovely, and found ourselves in 35C heat as we walked the main street.

The Hope Estate venue for the concert was fantastic.  As we parked nice and early, Mike went to a wee unmarked tent in the car park to ask about taking food and water in.  No on both counts.  So we left everything in the car and headed up the driveway/road to the gates we could see in the distance.  We saw the GA Front Standing queue and joined that.  Slowly people left the queue in some mystifying way, and we ended up under the shade of the tent.

As we stood there, someone said we needed wristbands to enter.  And that they were only given out in the unmarked car park tent.  Nice.  So, we left the queue and headed back down to the car park.  Got two wristbands and came back.  The queue then self managed as the wristbands had a number on them.  We were 287 and 288.

We're standing in the hot sun, with no drink for quite a while now.  36C easily.  But the queue manager suddenly shouts out that the lucky number is 231.  Mike and I had no idea what that meant.  But then the chap says "I am taking everyone from 231 to 309 in first.  They won the lottery".  We ended up being in the first 50 into the concert - well before anyone else.  We got so close!

This close!  This was Hunter Valley.

Yep - that close!  See?  I could touch Bruce if I wanted to.  That's my messy hair.  And why is it so messy, you ask?  Well, let me tell you what happened before Bruce came on.  We had the extreme heat and no water issue to contend with.  Mike and I did rather better than the people being treated by paramedics around us.  Mike saw one woman wobbling like she was drunk - he suspects she was so close to heatstroke.  We saw people getting wheeled out.

Then, after we watched Diesel perform, the management came on stage and told us a lightening storm was approaching and we needed to step back from the huge, tall metal structure which was the entire stage.  Fortunately the crowd stepped back behind us and we all shuffled back 1.5m to stand on grass.

The rain then started - big, fat drops that got my jacket out pretty fast.  Mike shared his picnic blanket with the two women next to us (we knew them for hours now) and they huddled under there.  This was going ok, until the hailstones started.  Big ones too.  I got donked on the head a few times and heard a few "Ows" from people around me.  I put Mike's backpack over my head and sheltered under that.

Once the hail stopped the rain really kicked in.  It hosed down.  Felt like I was standing under a wee waterfall.  The man behind me under a huge tarp said "Excuse me - come and step back a few steps".  So I did, and amazingly the rain slowed to a near stop.  We were under a drain from the very top of the stage and all the water was funneling onto us four and no one else.

We got Mike's attention and him and the women all stepped out of the localised downpour.

Hi Bruce

We were treated to an excellent Bruce concert once the rain cleared, Jet did their thing and the stars came out in the night sky.  We even dried out - apart from my feet which stayed soaking wet the entire rest of the evening.

Got out at 10.45pm and it only took an hour to leave the car park.  Got back to Sydney at 2am and eventually fell asleep.

Sunday was a lovely day with Scott's family at the Castle hill RSL to celebrate the Feb birthdays.

Iced coffee at the Castle Hill RSL.  Under all that fake cream was a pretty good iced coffee.

I re-wrapped Abby's ankles on Sunday night during a break in another full-on movie with bodies getting mutilated during WWII.  What was that called? Hacksaw Ridge.  It was pretty good, despite the harrowing visuals.

Dressed the same!

Got up super early and said goodbye to Karen and Scott and headed to the airport.  Made good time and we were in the departure lounge waiting to board our A380 Emirates flight to Christchurch with two hours to spare.  We paid to get upgraded to business class as it was offered for fairly cheap to us via email.  It was all on Mike's bucket list (the A380 part) so we decided to try it.  The flat beds are fantastic.  Very nice.  They must fly fast because the flight to Chch seemed very short.  I may have slept a lot and missed patches of the movie I watched.


In Chch we caught the local normal bus from the airport into the bus depot and walked the 900m to our hotel.  Checked in and recovered from the early start and then walked around central Christchurch for the first time since the 2011 earthquakes (we had driven briefly through it late in 2011 - but it was an eye opener to see it by foot).  The buildings are still needing demolition in many places but the rebuilds look great!  Roads are still closed in places, but the city functions again now.

Looking at the place we first kissed!

We checked out the cathedral closely as this is where Mike and I kissed for the first time.  Up in the tower balcony.  I could comment about a near heavenly experience, but you all know how I feel so no need to go into rapturous detail on that!  Hahahah.  But it was sad to see it in ruins and not much chance of it getting rebuilt at this point.

We went to have dinner at a Japanese place next to our hotel and a couple of women were reading the menu outside as we stopped to read it before entering.  One turned to us to tell us about the good food they had just eaten there.  And when the other one heard us talking, she turned around and gave me a hug!  It was Issy from our Nepal trip!  How cool is that?

Wall of masks

I saw a wall of pictures of masks in a doorway for Toby to see.  He loves masks.  We slept well that first night and I went to work from the Chch office on Tuesday.  Had an iced coffee at the local cafe.

Iced coffee at Passengers

Got through the day and then Ubered to the Speights Ale house near the AMI stadium and met Sally and Mike for the concert.

Happy Bruce customers

We are ready!

Good location

It was a great concert.  Bruce was petitioned to come here after the earthquake and he finally made it.  It was a good memorial on the eve of the deadly earthquake.  We had a good spot, in the rear standing GA area.  Lovely weather.  Perfect evening.  We walked to Hagley Park afterwards and got an uber back to our accommodation.

I stupidly read until 2am so my alarm at 5.45am was a rude shock.  Got myself sorted and left Mike snoring as I Ubered to work.  Got through a good day there and then Ubered with a colleague to the airport at 3.40pm.  He got me into Koru (thanks Craig!) and I met Sally and Mike there.  They had worked from Koru the whole day.

Caught an easy short flight home and loved seeing Toby (and the cat - note the order I place that in!!) and the house and garden were lovely and tidy after Mike's mother lent a big hand to us looking after Toby (and obviously our surroundings too!).

Back to routine today in Wellington, but tomorrow we're all off work/school and heading to Auckland for the last concert.  Toby is catching the train up with Sally and Andrew, and Mike and I are driving the new car up.  It's going to be huge!

Take care!  Love you lots.

Love,
Angela

The Tuesday with quiz night fun

Hi,

What a lovely Valentines Day!  After seeing Mike unexpectedly due to me forgetting my work shirt, it started the day off well.

Iced coffee with Mike while in my cycle shirt

I did try to go to the gym on the way home.  Rode my bike down there, locked it up outside, ran in and discovered the 5pm session on Tuesdays is an instructor led class.  You have to pay for them.  So I left.  Hahah.  Rode home and chatted to Toby.

Toby's dinner he cooked

He decided not to come out with us and cooked his dinner himself.  While it does look like a bowl of grated cheese from the photo above, it does actually contain pasta with basil pesto.  It is one of his favourites and now he knows how to cook it.  He was pretty chuffed with himself.

I put the bike on the car and collected Mike from town and we headed to Lower Hutt.  I dropped my bike at Gary the bike mechanic's house and he told us the story of woe.  His wife of umpteen years had cleared the house out that day and left him.  He was reeling a bit!

Then we went to the Speights Ale House in Petone and met everyone for a scrumptious dinner and quiz night.  Ooosshh!  A solid middle of the table performance from our end of the table.

Headed home and got stuck in crazy traffic.  It look 40 minutes to get home, crawling along the motorway in first gear.  Down to one lane for roadworks.  Nightmare.  But it did mean I got to sing loudly for ages!  Poor Mike.

Fell into a coma in bed.  Up today for our last day at work before Bruce fun and games over the next week.

Have a brilliant day!

Love,
Angela

The Monday with gym and a fierce windy day

Hi,

After the fierce wind in the morning, it did quieten down a little.  After a hard day at work I rode my bike to the gym and locked it up outside.  Did the 5pm session and jumped on my bike for the ride home.  The wind was still strong, but not insurmountable.  I slowly crawled up the hill.  Cooked tea - a yummy gnocchi in tomato pesto sauce.  But I forgot to take a photo.  I loved it.  And just as I finished, Mike got home so he ate his and enjoyed it.  The salad was ok too - cos lettuce and pear with pumpkin seeds.  Toby was not overly interested.  And he actually ate Weetbix a few hours later.

I'm not sure where the evening went but I was reading in bed and turned out my light and was asleep in seconds.  Mike even tried his best to convince me to stay awake, but I don't recall any of that.  Comatose.

I got ready like usual this morning but had a problem with my routine - obviously.  When I got to work and went to get changed, I realised I had forgotten to put a work shirt in.  I have never done that before and I blame love (it is Valentines Day and I am married to the best man in the world, so it seems like a fair blame game to me).  I rang the aforementioned best man in the world and asked him nicely to choose a shirt and go out of his way to drop it off at work for me.

He said yes!  I am lucky.

So, I sit at work now, in my bike shirt, hoping that no one mentions anything for another 20 minutes or so.

Hope your day is a good one.  And off to a slightly better start than my discombobulated morning.

Love,
Angela

The weekend with walking

Hi,

I just don't understand the weather here this summer.  Everyone is talking about it - and for a good reason.  Saturday saw the boys up and packing for their Dad Tramp to Paua Hut.  The weather was stunning - blue skies, no wind. Exactly the sort of weather you expect in February.

I had to close the doors to the deck for the cat, and then had to turn on the air conditioner as it was so hot.  That's the sort of day it was.

But Sunday dawned overcast and drizzly.  And a little windy.  Iona and Col encouraged me to join them on the Paekakariki escarpment walk, so I factored that into my day.

Dinner last night - fritters and salad with bacon pumpkin stuff

I went to the gym for a 10.20am RPM session, then home for a shower and time to catch the bus to the train station.  Got the 12.44pm train to Waikanae, but getting off at Paekakariki.  Iona and Col got on at Pukerua Bay and we started our walk from the train station at Paekakariki.

Striding into the distance on the Paekakariki escarpment walk

From the train station, you walk back south along SH1 until the rail overbridge just north of the Fishermans Table.  There are steps on the coast side of the bridge underneath and the track starts there.

The weather must have kept a few punters away as we only met 5 groups walking in the opposite direction to us.  They chose the wrong way to walk with a fierce prevailing wind - they would have been walking into the teeth of it the whole way.  We only felt it right on the top when we stopped for the view, and whenever the odd staircase headed back in a northerly direction.

Swing bridge

It was so windy on top!

Contemplating where we've been

Selfie back towards Paekakariki

We started at 1.50pm or so, and finished around 2.15pm.  The signs gave 3.5 hours, so we did it comfortably.  I got a lift back to Helen and Ron's place and Mike was there to collect me.  We enjoyed a cup of tea and a catch up before Mike dropped me at the supermarket in town and rushed back home to continue rebuilding the ASUS laptop.

He did ignore my phone calls waiting for a pickup from the supermarket, so I eventually called the landline and got a sheepish Mike.  Hahah.

I cooked tea (fritters, salad with harissa dressing, and pumpkin and bacon and pineapple grilled - Toby loved the bacon as it had pineapple sweetening it).

Dillingers iced coffee - a solid 7

I caught the bus into work this morning in dreadful conditions.  Raining and a strong wind.  I pity any cruise ships that try to visit today.  You can't believe it is my birthday week in these conditions.

Have a fantastic week ahead.  I am only here Mon - Wed this week.  Heading off to Sydney to see Brrruuuuuucceee on Thursday.  Then off to Christchurch to see him there on Tuesday.  Yep - it's a big month.

If you're in Wellington this Saturday, please head down to the waterfront and support the Raptors in the Fun Day for the dragon boat racing.  Go Raptors!

Love,
Angela

The Thursday with dragon boat training

Hi,

Finally getting some nice weather - but there is a chill in the air heralding autumnal days not too far in the future.

Gorgeous morning in Wellington

Yesterday I went to dragon boat training after work and had a blast.  The conditions were pretty good - quite calm.  I managed to contain my excitement and almost paddle in time with Jo.  Mostly.

Mike and Toby came to collect me after it and watched the camaraderie of the team as we debriefed and gave our team shout.

When I got home with them, I showered to get warm and wash out the salt, and the boys had cooked tea!  Woot.  Yummy lamb steaks.

Before I knew it, it was bedtime.  And this morning is a stunner in the wonderful wee capital.

Mike and Toby are off tramping this weekend on Dad Camp.  I have a list of things to do around the house.

Enjoy your weekend!

Love,
Angela

The Wednesday with Mike presenting at user group

Hi,

Yeah - a short week is messing with me.  It felt like Tuesday yesterday when really it was definitely Wednesday.

Happy with this Mojos iced latte

I did check out the closest Mojos and tried their iced latte and I was sooooo happy.  it was scrumptious.

I got on my bike at 3.45pm and rode to Les Mills at the other end of Lambton Quay and managed to make my 4pm class.  But I am going to have to switch.  It's too much hectic hassle.  I am now going to try the 5pm classes.

Showered at the gym for the first time (it was ok - nice and clean and not crowded) and then headed to user group.  Mike and Adam were presenting and they had an engaged crowd asking all osrts of good questions.

Mike then showed he may still be suffering the after effects of his migraine.  We had a drink at Dillingers with Adam and then Mike ubered home and I started pushing my bike home (I may have hopped on for a wee while - but it wasn't fun in my work clothes and boots).  The intention was for Mike to grab the car and pick me up wherever I got to by the time he got to me.

Imagine my surprise when I saw the orange car coming to meet me.  No way can we take the bike home.  What was happening?  Turns out Mike had driven to work in anticipation of our difficult logistics of getting home afterwards.  But, he had forgotten!  Hahahah.

I went to collect the silver car and got out without paying as this week it is free after 8.30pm and I drove out at 8.32pm.  They have a new automated system but the call centre can't be reached yet after 8.30pm.  Snort!

Home and straight to bed for me.  Mike and Toby watched some rubbish together.  Hahah.

Lovely day here today.  Yay!  Training tonight after work.

Have a brilliant day!

Love,
Angela

The Tuesday at our new work

Hi,

Our work is in a new building.  80 Willis St (behind the New World, almost).  And it is very flash.  Only took me a few minutes to settle into a new desk again this morning.  We've got "activity based seating".  Hahah.

I met Mike for lunch yesterday at Verve but it seemed a long way to walk for both of us.  We have to curtail our dalliances.

Verve iced coffee.  Solid 6.5

Went home after work and Mike came home with a migraine.  I got changed and headed back to dragon boat training.  Which, despite the weather, was lovely and calm.

Right.  Time for my podiatrist appointment now.  Have a great day!

Love,
Angela

The weekend with Waitangi Day

Hi,

Well, it was the first Waitangi Day in a while that I didn't actually go to a marae.  I must sort that out for next year as I missed the cultural side of it.

But, it was still a  good weekend.  Mike headed off from work on Friday and we eventually saw him late afternoon on Monday.  His trip to Ruapehu was successful and he finally climbed Ngauruhoe.

Toby and I had a lazy Friday and cooked the last My Food Bag meal for the week.  Yummy lamb - and I remembered to take a photo!

Lamb with mash and green beans!

After some frantic reshuffling of the schedule to accommodate Akash's last minute birthday party, Toby and I had a wee sleep in (unexpected) before I took him to Shed 1 for bubble soccer fun with Akash.  I read in the car outside the Beehive before going to pick him up at 1pm and head off to Palmerston North.

We got caught in a huge traffic snarl and it tool 1.75 hours to get to Waikanae.  After that the traffic cleared though and we got to Iona and Col's house at 4pm.  Three hours is quite a long trip.

We went to take Frida for a walk by a wee creek that was running quite high and fast (according to the locals).  Then back to get ready for dinner and a movie.

We went to Lone Star and enjoyed steak (Toby), ribs (me and Col) and fish (Iona).  From there we went to see Hidden Figures at the movies.  What a wonderful movie - just the sort of thought provoking stuff I like to watch.

Back home and I may have read until I couldn't keep my eyes open any longer.

Next morning Toby stayed with Frida (Toby was sore and Frida has a sore shoulder) and we went to the Manawatu Gorge for a lovely walk.

Walking with Col

Feet on the Manawatu Gorge track

Lovely view of the gorge

After an iced coffee with Col where our table number featured strongly, we went home and I packed Toby into the car and we headed home.

Iced coffee goodness

The drive home was the usual 2 hour trip - yay!  We got Toby ready and I dropped him off for his sleepover with Isaac.

Monday I went to collect Celia and we went to get our shiny telescope from Phil.  Awesome.  Two hours later we were armed with instructions and very keen to get a clear night so we can try it out.

Our new telescope

Toby watched the Superbowl and is now enamoured with it.  Weird kid.  Mike got home and we collected Toby and dropped Akash back home.

And that was our weekend!  Oossshhh!

Toby is off sick from school today though.  I may have broken him after his physical week last week.

Hope you had a lovely time.  I know it was Stephanie's birthday yesterday - I can only hope Geelong had better weather for it than we had here.

Enjoy the short week (for NZ) this week.

Love,
Angela

The Thursday with lunch with Sophie

Hi,

Another iced latte at Mojos

I met with a client and caught up with their news (and hers - she is pregnant with her first child, and so excited) and got an iced latte while there.  Yay!

Then had a lovely lunch with Sophie and caught up on all her news.  She is halfway through her pregnancy (second child) and possibly having a girl this time for a baby sister for wee Pax.  Things are going well this time.  We had a lovely meal and had a quick wander around David Jones too.

Then after work we had dragon boat training.  Jo had an ankle injury at netball and was rushed to hospital to check it.  So Toby had no babysitting duties and went home.  But we had training in the weird weather.  And Guns N Roses were playing at the caketin - so the traffic was snarled up and I bet they aren't in a huge hurry to come back.  Gale winds and rain.  Not exactly summer.  Celia and James managed to finish the training and get to the concert.

Mike came to collect me and we ended up just getting burgers on the way home and then com,ing back later to clear out my stuff.  I didn't realise they were dismantling everything Thursday night so I had to go looking for stuff.  Found most of it.

Back home and we got the Corolla ready for Mike's weekend (rooftop box on) and then collapsed into bed.

At least Friday morning is showing signs of sunshine.  Fingers crossed that gets better.

Have a great weekend.  It's a long one here in New Zealand for Waitangi Day.

Love,
Angela

The Wednesday with two iced coffees

Hi,

Ok - do you think it bodes well for a day where I had two iced coffees before 1pm?  And by that I mean for my colleagues that have to endure my caffeinated self.  Hahahah!

The people taking the photos seemed to get right into the spirit of it completely!

Mojos iced latte

Mojo iced latte

Sensible Rahzoo photo

Rex - what are you doing?

Here's a silly face for the iced coffee pic

Pleading now with Rex!

And the taste test pic

Lunch at Rahzoo was to celebrate Mary's birthday and mine later this month!  Woot!  Jo and Rex joined us and Rex even found meat on the menu.

Managed to get a gym session in with Sreejith - yay for normal routine.  Of course, i did have two iced coffees to work off.  Hahah.

The weather was awful so I caught the bus home with Mike.  Cooked tea - pulled beef sliders - yep - forgot the photo yet again.    Yummy.

It was late by then, so pretty much off to bed really.  I need to get a few things done tonight and tomorrow night before our weekend fun.

Today is our last day in this building for work.  We are working from home tomorrow and the move begins!  Very exciting.  We're down Willis St from Tuesday after the long weekend.  New cafes to discover.  I hope they have a Mojos down there that does those iced lattes!

We have dragon boat training tonight.  If the weather co-operates!  Toby is coming to my work (for the last time here) and we're heading to the park and he'll look after Ava while we train.

Have a wonderful day!

Love,
Angela

The Tuesday with gym and not a lot else

Hi,

I managed to catch up with Rami about the year ahead with the user group.  And got an iced coffee out of it.  Woot!

Iced coffee at that cafe under Microsoft

Also squeezed in a gym session - two in a row.  My routine might just be coming back to normal.  Got another one lined up today too.

I caught the bus home after I went back to work for a bit and it took 35 minutes to get on a bus.  I cooked tea when I got home, but forgot to take a photo of it.  Stir fried chicken.  It was pretty yummy.

Mike did a bit of homework and I managed to do laundry but before I knew it, it was time for bed.

Toby is off to school today.  He isn't looking forward to being back.  I think he is a bit apprehensive about Year 10.  Not sure why.  His school bag is ready for the day - so long as he remembers his phone and laptop.  I remembered his lunch!  Woot!

Have an awesome day!

Love,
Angela