The long weekend with Easter

 Hi,

Happy birthday to Vince today.  And it is Michael's birthday later this week too.  

What a long weekend - I do love having the 4 days off over Easter.  But now, on Tuesday morning, it is hard to remember exactly what we did.

Friday we waited at home for the sparky to come (see Mike's post about the hot water and you will know more).  But around 11am we got a call from him and he'd been out the night before and was feeling a bit sorry for himself and could he put it off a bit longer?  Well, sure.

Good Friday is a day when most things are shut.  So why the sparky suggested he come on that morning is a bit beyond me really.  So our Friday turned out a little quieter than we thought.

But we were up early on Saturday for our trapline training with Sean.  Sean  is the team lead of this trapline and has been doing this one for about 4 years.  Mike says this needs its own post.  The detailed version.

This is the short version.  Andrew was busy with work, so couldn't make it.  Mike and I headed to the Caltex at Wainuiomata to meet Sean at 8am.  We got the Erayz (dried rabbit meat stuff) and 12 eggs to the traps, and then headed to Sunny Grove to head up Whakanui track.  

Trapline training

In the stream

Typical work

Finding that thing you need

Hi viz safety first

Great view into Wellington harbour

We did our UTS (Upper Turere Stream) trapline.  10 of them.  Most of them through the stream - up either side of the bank s we walked upstream.

Got back to the car just after 3pm.  So it is a biggish day of walking.  They are all DoC200 traps.  You put in some rabbit meat and a fresh egg and make sure the trap is clean and set.

Easter Sunday saw Sally and Andrew pop around for brunch and egg rolling.  Toby made pancake and Mike made hot hot cross buns.  Then we wandered up to the street to roll the eggs down.

Waikanae beach

Ice creams

Hi Theresa

What are my family doing?

Oh please.  Just stand normally!

Sally, Toby and Tessa egg rolling

Me egg rolling

Now I can eat it

After egg rolling, we drove Toby and Tessa up through Transmission Gully to Waikanae beach for an ice cream.  We asked Theresa to join us and she turned up with Maddy and Jessie.  We also bumped into Brendan and Connor - they were up and heading to the beach for a swim as we peeled the wrappers off our ice creams.

Lovely day for it.  T shirt and shorts weather.  I even paddled!  Said goodbye to Theresa and headed back home.

Monday saw Mike sorting out stuff in the garden.

Big leaf down in our backyard

Staking the kowhai

Enjoying the sun

And I enjoyed the gorgeous weather.  :-)

Hope your Easter was good fun.

Love,

Angela