Last weekend was An and Jenny's last in New Zealand :( Jenny is now back in California and An is in Australia, and then off to Thailand and eventually back to Belgium. We had a nice goodbye dinner all together Friday night (along with their replacements) and then games and picnic in Albert Park Saturday evening before going out. It's sad now a lot of my first friends here have gone back home or off traveling and then back home!
This week was also the last week of swim lessons for the term and so half the class is fun and games and the kids get jelly beans at the end! While telling "The Bob Story" during one class of preschoolers I was corrected. Apparently, they're not zEE-bras at the zoo (where you also always see a bobcat in the bob story) they are ze-(as in egg)-bras...also playing red light/green light, the it's not a yellow light, it's an orange light! I was wrong all over the place. They just didn't understand that it was what I called them, to them, it was just wrong.
Tomorrow I am doing the King of the Bays Ocean Swim, another 2.8k from Milford Beach to Takapuna beach, very close to home again. Hopefully the weather stays just like it has been all week! Nice and sunny! It's the last swim of the series as summer is slowly coming to an end. The rest of the weekend should be pretty relaxed (that's the plan as of now) and then Monday night Jacques and I are going to see Bruno Mars at Vector Arena in Auckland!! :) Then three days of looking after the kids the first week of school holidays, then the family is off to the Mount and Jacques and I are off to Great Barrier Island!
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| Last ever group photo with An and Jenny :( |
