We are very lucky to have such great friends who can put up with us for a week. Liz & Rick are awesome friends, we have missed them. The week went really fast. We both got to see our doctors. We got a good load of op shopping in. A quick check of the container, it is looking just like we left it. We put more dehumidifier stuff in and set off a borer bomb. Rowan had left his guns to be sold on behalf when we left Christchurch. The company he left them with sold up and Gun City took their stock. Rowan had to go see them and get them to buy them off him.

Mother Day, Rowan cooked a big breakfast for Liz. I found some awesome handmade ceramic placemats, a woolly scarf and some chocolate. It is a thank you for having us, and why not make Liz feel a bit more special on Mother Day. She has definitely been a good mother at timea for us! We went for a walk with the dogs in Bottle Lake Forest. The kids took Liz out in the afternoon.

Tuesday night we went to a pub to participate in a quiz. We were a team of 6 with Rick & Liz’s friends and we ended up coming third. We were only a few points from first. Rowan really enjoyed cooking every night and we all appreciated it. We gave Billy some more money, he is down the road where we left our house truck.

We had a successful op shop around. We ended up with a fair bit of gold to add to the collection. I found some more porcelain cubes that I had displayed in our old house. Now I have more to make it even bigger.

There are two spokes that need replacing on our bikes. It turns out we need new chains too. Obviously all those miles has caused some wear and tear. My bike isn’t ready to pick up, talk about leave it to last minute. We will have to pick it up tomorrow morning before we go to the airport. The guys at Evo cycles give us a couple of bike boxes so that we can dismantle and get them on the plane.