One week to go!

Sorry no photos this post!

Another busy weekend just been. Saturday morning Greg and two of the guys from our street headed out at 6.30am trout fishing near Glenorchy. They towed the boat down there and then fished in front of all the major rivers - the Dart, Rees and Greenstone. They came home with 4 rainbow trout, and released a number of browns. On Saturday evening we headed out to a BBQ for some people that we met at our street party - we were only intending on staying for a short time but ended up getting home close to midnight.
On Sunday morning we again put the boat in the water, this time for wakeboarding. It was beautifully flat and we stayed out from 8.30 until 11.30 - and wondered where everyone else was! We were still the only ones out when we came back in. Then everyone came back to our place for brunch. After brunch we started preparing the lamb shanks for dinner as our friends Max and Fin, their baby Morgan and Max's parents were over for dinner. They arrived at about 5pm and a great dinner was had by all (complete with the first strawberries from Fin's garden - which were the only sweet juicy strawberries we have had in Queenstown, they were great on top of the Pav!). They headed home at about 9pm and we collapsed into a heap!

Friday is our last day of work for the year and it can't come around soon enough. On the weekend we are heading down to Riverton and Curio Bay with Max and Fin etc which will be great. You can't get much further South than Curio Bay, meaning we will go from the bottom of the South Island to almost the top of the North in a matter of days. And it also means more beach time for us, and hopefully by the time we get to Auckland we will be nicely relaxed. We haven't been to Riverton before so looking forward to that. Good surf around there apparently, and hopefully the Hector's Dolphins will be back at Curio Bay.

We'll come back late on Monday night, which gives us all day Tuesday to clean the house and put away personal papers etc in preparation for the family who are staying in our house whilst we are in Auckland. They are the extended family of one of our neighbours and have 4 children. The eldest daughter has recently suffered a concussion injury so it will be good for them to have a quiet place to get away from the younger ones. We are slightly nervous about letting our house out but we figure what's the worst that could happen..... touchwood.....