As I mentioned earlier, I spent the long weekend in Tairua with Ben and his family. The weather came out to play (sort of) and I spent a really nice Sunday driving through to Waihi to have lunch with my dad.
We went to the Ohinemuri Winery, which is hidden from the main road through the Karangahake Gorge, but is nevertheless teeming with cyclists from the rail trail and other visitors. I had carrot soup and a delicious chocolate orange mousse and dad had a duck liver pate with crusty bread and then a really fresh lime tart covered in berries.
The Karangahake Gorge is awesome- i really want to have a holiday there at some point. I'm dropping mad hints to Ben, that we should camp there over Anniversary weekend, but he's pretty lukewarm about it!
I also had my first ever go at playing golf, which was pretty unsuccessful but surprisingly fun. It is so fricken hard to hit those tiny balls, but when you do, the feeling is pretty great.
On Monday, we went to JB Hifi to recoup our stolen losses and walked away with a huge haul of gear. It was actually pretty exhausting trying to spend that money and wracking our brains about what we actually needed etc... but we weren't complaining.
I got the National's High Violet album, which I haven't even listened to yet, but am looking forward to cranking at some point. And Ben got a tonne of PS4 related stuff and a PS4... so he's pretty much counting the hours until he's home alone now so he can binge on it.
So, what else am I loving...
Well, we took the girls to Western Springs the other night which was a fun glimpse of things to come as summer stretches out before us. To be fair, we probably jumped the gun a bit- it was kinda chilly and the girls were kinda scratchy, but that could have been because we had been to an open home before hand.
We are looking to move back into town, which is probably gonna be a hella expensive exercise, but we think it will be worth it because of commute hassles and our general dislike of living in Avondale. The house we looked at was a bit small when it came to living space, but it proved to us that there were nice places we can afford in the area that we want to live in, so that was a nice positive outcome to hold on to.
So in summing up... the things I love this week and am forever grateful for are:
Long weekends -hell yeah, gimme more.
Long lunches - my dad is great mealtime company, never dull!
Open homes - a legitimate opportunity to snoop in other people's houses
The perfect marriage of chocolate and orange - I've been craving jaffas all week
Grumpy children - it's always fun teasing them a bit, then having a crack at cheering them up
The National - why would anyone not love this band
Spending up large when it ain't your money - enough said.
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