We got to celebrate the Queen's Birthday with a long weekend. We stayed close to home and did a few things as a family for some "forced family fun."
After doing all of our sporting duties on Saturday, we had a nice dinner with the Luond Family (Kerrin, Jade, Mia and Journey) featured on the roller rama video. They left for Queensland in Aussie and they dropped off their new kitten for us to watch over. We snuck in a few rounds of family gin rummy.
Sunday brought a road trip to Paritutu Park, with a climb up essentially a large rock on the coast. A little scarier as it rained pretty hard making things a bit more slick.
We then hit the Centre City Mall to get some new shoes for me and Logan. Got something to eat at Puke Ariki and off to the next adventure at Govett-Brewster Art Gallery.
We managed to sneak in a walk and skate at the East End of the walkway near the Te Rewa Rewa Bridge before hitting a very busy KFC for a bucket (Shelley craving this from her childhood) and a double down (Eli has been dying to try this for months).
Monday brought a trip out to Kina Rd to fish and comb and build forts with the Ackerman Family (Steve, Sue, Jade and Jonah).
We made it back home and cooked up some fresh kahawai and relaxed after a busy fun filled family weekend!
Isn't it wonderful that the Queen gives you a long weekend so you can have so much fun?!? And it sure didn't look like any of that fun was very forced - well, maybe going down that steep hill...
ReplyDeleteVery cute movie. Nice rainy mountIn climb, looked very steep. Nice fishing as well. It might just be me but I think Pete is sporting the Mr Miyagi look-I like it :)
ReplyDeleteMiss you guys, hope all is well.
Dave, Kiki, Lucas and Rita