What a weekend!

It’s been a very full-on weekend for us.

Yesterday was a perfect winter’s day with warm sunshine so we took a trip up to the Kapiti Coast. The idea was to look for a wedding venue (at long last!), and we did look at a very wonderful little place, but unfortunately it was a bit beyond our budget.

Anyway, at lunchtime we were looking for a place to have a picnic and we chanced upon a little spot which has now officially become our absolute favourite beach in the whole world – we won’t publish where it is as we need to keep it secret! We pottered around for ages in the sun, climbing over driftwood, collecting stuff and just enjoying the sunshine. Our job this week is to work out if there are any wedding venues in that area!

Afterwards we took a long overdue visit to the shops and we well and truly blew the credit card limit on some very essential items. After 2 weeks of sharing an air bed with Molly, Alfie is now the proud owner of his very own bed, and the whole family have new bedsheets and fluffy winter blankets. Tonight the kids actually went to sleep on time, and are snoozing peacefully in their new bedding...

After a night out for Jake and I last night to a GROWN-UP drinks party – thanks to Jerry for a great evening, and thanks to Emma for baby-sitting - we woke up this morning to a huge tantrum at 7am from Alfie and stormy weather outside, not the best start to the day!

But today Wellington had a ‘open day’ for locals – the idea being that with the Rugby World Cup coming up soon, the local tourist board wanted us all to know the local attractions so we could recommend them to our visitors. So we had access to a lot of places for just a gold coin donation today. Our plans were to go to three places: Wellington Zoo, Zealandia wildlife sanctuary and the Carter Observatory. Yeah right – three places in one day with two little ones??!! We managed to get round half of the zoo! Molly just had the best time ever, as we got to watch an operation on a chimpanzee, meet a one-legged Kiwi with a prosthetic leg, and she listened to a talk on how to become a vet.

Off to enjoy my own new fluffy blanket now....night night!