The weekend in Wellington that was really short

 Hi,

Not sure how anyone survives on a 2 day weekend. The housework was the first to suffer. Hahahah. Friday saw me and Mike working from home. And we got out at lunch time for a run - my first one since the cold struck. It was a bit tough but we did it.

Smudge smooching

Our usual trail run through Otari Wilton bush was cut short with some tape. We couldn't go the next 150m to the end. Mike went to check it out. Hard to tell, he said.

Run on Friday

Saturday saw us at Waitangi Parkrun where we met Lisa. It was cold and windy but stayed dry. I did a slow 37 min run. If you could call it a run.

Day walk on Saturday

Janine wanted to walk somewhere so we planned the Kaitoke Ridge track. We did it years ago when Toby was quite young from a camping weekend at Kaitoke with the family tramping club people.

This time Mike and I collected Maureen from her place and met Janine at the Waterworks Road end of the track. She left her car there and we drove around to Kaitoke and left our car there.

Headed up the track at about 11:50am. Maureen and I missed the first turn off after about 100m because we were totally engrossed in our conversation. Lucky Janine was paying attention.

This track is about 3 hours. The first part is a fairly steep track up until you get to the ridge. Not too bad. Good firm track - wasn't too muddy or rooty. There are not really any views on this track - the trees are just a little too big and obscure most of it apart from the odd glimpse.

Pretty much the only view

Janine takes a selfie of us while Mike takes a pic of us

The track is hard clay with a layer of mossy green sludge that can get quite slippery. Yay for my Asics trail runners. We also saw the emergency track down to the wee A frame shelter we went to once. It does not meet the main track but I saw the orange triangle about 20m off in the trees about 2/3 the way to the Waterworks end.

It took us 2 hours and 40 mins. Not too bad considering the slightly slippery conditions. Everyone was peckish so we popped into Brewtown on the way back. My first time there. We went to Boneface and had some food. I got a smoked mushroom burrito. It was pretty good.

My first time at Brewtown

The day walk

Back home to chill. And then up early (4.30am) to go watch the Football world cup with Maureen at her place. Canada v Morrocco. What a great entertaining game. Canada played so well and never got any goals. Morrocco played fairly well in the second half and got 3 goals. But Morrocco were capitalising on Canada pressing forward to try and get a goal and leaving defense open for a counter. But - good fun.

I got a home made iced latte too. Thank you. And scrambled eggs. Mmmm.

Home made iced latte

Back home to tidy and get ready for a run at the gym. My treadmill kept stopping - gah! Then a few books from Unity for Anusha and home to pack for Mike's trip away.

More tidying. Then Sally, Andrew and John popped over for takeaways. We tried Dehli7 in Northland. They had pani puri - yum! Food was so good. Goat curry for me and Andrew. And it was delicious.

Then off to bed. Mike was up early to catch his flight to Auckland and then to Singapore. And I am home in  the wind and the rain. But not as bad as Dunedin. Polly is ok - Mike rang her last night. But it sounds pretty yucky down there. And cold.

Take care everyone.

Have a good day.

Love,

Angela