Well, I’m back in Bondi after spending 4 brilliant weeks in NZ with my friends and family. Christmas was fantastic, as usual, with far too much yummy food!
I was also really spoiled with lots of pressies from the family and from Simon. He surprised me with a treasure hunt which lead to a youtube clip displaying a new guitar he bought me! It was awesome!
New Year’s was also great; we sat on the deck around the table with my family and ate and drank a great deal. We sang songs to the guitar and then after midnight we all walked down to the stream (Vicky had a bit of difficulty as she was smashed) and stood on the bridge to see the pretty lights Dad had placed along the stream. We also checked out the glow-worms along the bank and the star-filled sky. The stars were like nothing you’ve ever seen! Amazing.
Simon and I made a quick trip to Whakatane to see the cuzzie bros and Nan and Pop. Karen and Mark’s baby boy Caleb is gorgeous!!! Check him out!
So awesome to catch up with everyone. We ate fresh oysters Karen andMark had gathered that afternoon, met Mark’s palimino horse Dusty and Simon managed to fit in a round of golf too with Mark and Uncle Alan. Karen took Simon for a run and she caned him! What was he thinking trying to run with one of NZ’s top runners? He was tired for days afterwards. Poor thing.
We then headed to Pukehina Beach where my mate Aimee’s parents have a bach. There were 12 of my good mates staying there too. We ate beautiful food including bbq’d Tua Tua shellfish we got at low tide, drank Pimms and sat around a camp fire on the beach. We saw a couple of small sharks 5 metres out from the shore, so Simon waited until the morning to go surfing with Skip. They were out for 3 hours though and were the only ones out there for miles! He said it was like surfing in your back garden – we were all on the deck of the bach eating breakfast as the guys surfed right below us.
The rest of the time was spent doing loads of wedding planning and wedding consultations (only 10 weeks to go!!!), hanging out with the kids, swimming in the waterhole with Jess and her whanau, weeding and pruning the garden with Mum (we must have filled more than 4 trailer loads), working on the land with Dad (digging, shovelling, driving the digger), eating xmas cake and going shopping.
The weather was fantastic pretty much the whole time (which is very unusual for NZ weather) and I arrived back in Bondi on Friday where it has been raining off and on since!
I had such a great time! My holiday is not over yet though! I don’t go back to work until 29th Jan and Vick, Mo, Jamie and Matt are coming to stay on Friday for a week! Choice! Work is for losers! xxx
Me and my new guitar (I’m not naked, I just have a strapless dress on!)
