So this past weekend was the most anticipated long weekend we've ever had. Not for anything special but just for he mere fact that we've been working so hard and we just really needed a time out.
The weekend got off to a good start, on Friday Ashley arrived promptly at 6pm to babysit Darian and Cam and I headed into the city for dinner with friends at Tony's Restaurant. We had a lovely dinner and then headed to Aotea Theatre for the Trevor Noah show. It's the first time he headlined in NZ and he did not disappoint. Was a great start to the weekend. Needless to say the theatre was filled with South Africans and we met quite a few of our SA friends after the show. Unfortunately we weren't allowed to take any pics and he didn't even come meet the crowd afterward so snaps of him.
Saturday morning was our usual morning of cleaning, washing, blah blah blah... But as it was probably the best day weather wise since the beginning of spring, we decided to not waste the day and headed to Wynyard Quarter. Lenny, Prenika and Kajal met us there and the kids had a great afternoon playing in the playground and watching the boats on the water.
We then headed to Jack Tar for drinks and an early dinner and then headed home. Lenny, Premika and Kajal stayed over at ours so the kids came home and had loads of fun playing together, and even more so getting into the bathtub and splashing around.
The guys went and got some dessert for us and after the kids and mums went to sleep the two dads spent all night playing FIFA on XBOX.
Sunday we headed off to Manukau to a South African Braai Day hosted by a local NZ based, South African radio station, SA NZ Radio Live. It was a really cool set up with a really good turn out. We got our gazebo up and were joined by a few SA friends and spent the afternoon enjoying some South African music, food and friends. The kids spend the whole afternoon running around and playing on the jumping castle. I almost lost my head a a group of big kids who were pushing and climbing over the little kids on the jumping castle. Darian was enjoying himself until some kids scared him and he was besides himself. The worst part was that I couldn't get to him. My heart felt as though it would rip through my chest but a cute little girl who was probably about a year older than him saw his distress and instantly tried to help him and held his hand to help him come down the slide, but as the bigger kids pushed she slipped and pulled Darian along with her and that just made it worse. Needless to say he didn't get back on and a few of the kids got a piece of my mind, next minute they announced no kids over the age of 10 on the jumping castle and they started having times per age group on the jumping castle. Too late for my little one but oh well... Besides that, it was a good afternoon, Darian got over his fright quickly and thankfully he wasn't hurt. He spent the next few hours just running around and playing with the other kids, and of course dancing around, especially when the song Jika came on.
For some reason the organisers asked anyone and everyone who came in with a VW to park at the front of the grounds and display their cars. I didn't get why but I guess it's true, South Africans love their VW's. Pity I sold mine but Premika had hers on display too...
Monday was Labour Day but wasn't a very nice day weather wise so we just stayed home and in the afternoon headed to The Warehouse to get some storage boxes for Darian's old stuff. We rearranged his room and did a bit of a spring clean to end our long weekend.
And that is the last long weekend and Public Holiday NZ will have til Christmad so you can bet by the time Christmas comes around we will be longing for a break.
