The weekend in Wellington

Hi,

Happy birthday.


What a great weekend.  Started with iced coffees galore on Friday.  Joycie was trying "Dutch angles" - maybe she knows I just don't get it (eh, Toby??).  The flash went off so I had to sort that out.  That just made me look a bit stunned.

Boom!  My camera did a flash!

What are you doing, Joycie?

Got it!

And... another Dutch angle.

Saturday saw us heading to Quentin's group session and a core workout.  Ooofff.   Hard work.  But the iced latte at The Lab was good.  And I had their Earth bowl.  Yum!

Post group session iced latte @ The Lab

Toby had a filming weekend - ahead of the big one this coming weekend.  48 hour film event.  Apparently as he was walking home from the filming, like he is dressed below, he had cars screeching to a halt to see if he was ok.

My son stopped traffic on the way back from his filming

Saturday night we went around to Elly's place where she is house sitting and Mike made some wooden slats to fit her new bed.  And we ate yummy stuff and drank mulled wine (mine was apple juice based).  The view was stunning from there.

View Saturday night

Alien plant in our garden

We also found three new plants in the garden.  Courtesy of the gardeners.  Or maybe aliens came and planted them?  They look less than native to me.  If anyone can recognise them, let me know.

Look, Ma!  Tumeric drinks.

Tumeric drinks - Ma - you need to come and try them all!

Sunday saw us looking after the teenagers that slept over (Tessa, Zack and Ethan) - Mike and I went to get provisions for their brekkie. 

Sally and Andrew popped in to drop off the Subaru from the week in Nelson they had.  Woot!  Godo to see them - and hope Sally is beating that cold off.

Then Mike and I had a walk with Philippa and Kaustubh came along.  That was very nice.

Did almost 5km around Oriental Parade and up into a tiny bit of Mt Vic.  Bumped into Sam from work at the start, and Christine and Tom at the end.  Kaustubh now thinks we know everyone in Wellington.

Kaustubh gave us a cup of team afterwards with cardamon.  Yum!

Perfect foot shot at Oriental Parade beach 

Wait - what is that coming into shot?

Photo bomb dog!

Ok - he's cute!

Back home and cooked tea and did the mountain of laundry a bit of justice.  Still not conquered - but definitely well beyond base camp and fixing ropes for a decent push. 

Have an awesome week ahead.  Rode in this morning and - it wasn't cold.  Weird.

Love,
Angela