The weekend with AFL and Mike tramping

 Hi,

What a busy time, eh?  I did catch up with Kirsty for an iced latte on Friday.  We totally do not do that often enough.  Also went back to Mojo for lunch with a bunch of people.  That was amusing.  

Friday iced latte

After work, went with Mike to Fork and Brewer and met ex colleagues.  Sreejith had his leaving drinks there.  Had a ginger beer then dragged Mike to The Green Man for the AFL social night.  We were one of the first there, joining Denise, Chloe and Sam.  In the end there would have been 10 of us I guess.  And we chatted for ages.  Thank you for organising that.

The whole idea was the unveil the new guernseys but they have been delayed at customs.  But the sponsor provided a bar tab.  And we ate and drank our way through that.

Back to Fork and Brewer to say goodbye and then Uber home.

Cats touching!

Prognosis is poor

Up for boot camp in Frank Kitts park on a gorgeous morning.  Then home to finish packing for Mike's tramp to Waerenga hut.  We left home at 12pm and were at the Catchpool carpark by 12.45pm.

Random selfie tramping with Mike

Time to give me my phone back

Lunch at Midway bridge

Walked to Midway bridge and enjoyed a lunch in the sun.  It was weird to be eating there without Toby.  

Climbing the tree Toby always climbed

Posing

Love this walk

Ferns

Tramping

I left Mike just above the river and headed back.  Got to the car at 1520 and was home before 1600.  

Surrounded by cats

Cute

Sunday saw me up after only 5 hours sleep.  Groan!  Ate brekkie then headed to Hutt Park for AFL. Another close game that we lost by 6 points.  Gah!

Mike arrived when we were playing, having been dropped off by someone else from their tramping trip.  He did a 3km run before our game finished.  We tried to go out to a cafe but they were full.  Headed home for lunch.  

In the evening Andrew collected me and we went to the Embassy to see The Alpinist.  I heard about Andrew's slightly unusual day at work on Super Saturday (vaxathon) where he drove around taking a key person to various events.

Back to the movie... It was an amazing film about a young Canadian climber doing new routes solo and shattering the conventions.  But in a surprise move, the end of the film was about his death on a remote peak in Alaska.  Avalanche - while climbing with a buddy and using rope.  Tragic.

Off to see The Alpinist

On that sobering note, Andrew dropped me home and I crept into bed next to Mike, happily fast asleep after his tramping weekend.

Busy week at work.  Hope you have a good one.

Love,

Angela