A day at Paekakariki Beach

Last weekend was Wellington Anniversary weekend and it was an absolute stunner!(as you can see from these photo's).

On the Sunday of the long weekend Rich and I decided to go to Paekakariki for the day and it was VERY hot and there were a whole bunch of people on the beach.

But we had a good day - how could you not have a good day when the sun is shining like this!

A day at the races for Celia's Birthday!

Last weekend Celia arranged a day at the races to celebrate her birthday - the only time I'd ever been to the races before was to work in a pie cart during my university days - so I was very excited to have a chance to dress up posh, wear a floppy hat, drink wine and sit in the sun for a day!
The girls enjoying a wine in the wine village - can you believe we bought a whole bottle of french champers for $25 - what a bargain!

The lovely Mr & Mrs Black....awwww...

These next few photo's need some explaination - they had a wine grape crushing competition in the wine villiage - here's my friend Henri trying her luck out squishing some grapes

Celia enjoying a high quality lunch - nothing like a wine and a hot dog;)

Everyone a bit later on - sitting on the grass, having a picnic and watching some horses!

Glasson's Breast Cancer Tee's

I do realise I'm suppose to be doing the whole "buy no new clothes for 6 months" thing but well some things are bigger than craft even!

Some things like supporting breast cancer - so yesterday Kat, Sonia and I went to get our annual breast cancer tee's from Glassons.

I got the very cute Kate Sylvester racer back t-shirt - which I love! There's more info about the shirts on the Glassons websites.

http://www.glassons.co.nz/

I think most of my friends buy Breast Cancer tees each year anyways to help their sisters in need - but if you don't buy them - well it's time you got out there spent some coin and bought yourself one!

PS - The doubly nice thing is that they actually go up to a size 20 too for all the bigger girls out there - if only all Glassons clothes went up to a size 20 for all the bigger girls out there **sigh**

Polehill Reserve to Brooklyn Wind Turbine Walk

A couple of weekends ago Rich and I decided it was time to go for a decent walk, before Christmas Kat and Fiona had done a walk from Polehill Reserve in Aro to the wind turbine and said it was pretty cool - so we figured - we live right down the road from the Polehill reserve - lets give this walk a go!

So part way through the way we got off the beaten park a bit and came across some old bunkers which was really cool - some of them had some very cool sencil art in them which was just amazing!

Part way through our walk we also came across this lovely white horse - he was really friendly and came right up to the gate so we could pat him (I really wish I'd had an apple to give him). I really love this photo too - looks so whimsical like something out of Princess bride.

Finally the wind turbine! Although it was so foggy you couldn't see too much!