What A Weekend...Part the 2nd
Well, for Tea, we had planned to meet my best friend, Julianne (formerly the man known as Julian) at McDonald's; however, she had to work a little late, so we went ahead & ate without her. The kids had McDonald's - Margaret had Thai food, and I had a Turkish Kebab. (We were at a Foodcourt). I took the family back to the hotel, & arranged to meet Julianne in the lobby. She turned up not long after, having come straight from work - she is an instructor who teaches people to fly light aircraft. She had her lunch (!) in our hotel room; then, with the clock ticking loudly in my ears, I had to browbeat Julianne to get her to be ready by 7:45pm...I didn't want to miss the last Gondola up the hill! (Photo to follow). We made it with scant minutes to spare. The Gondola took us up to the Skyline Restaurant & Bar high above Queenstown, where we enjoyed the beautiful view before heading for the Bar. Julianne bought me a lovely Banana Dacquiri, & we had a good chat. After an 90mins or so, we headed down the Gondola, & went back to the hotel, & had coffee & fries (Julianne's tea!! This is a woman who usually cooks tea at around 10pm...). I arranged to say "Hi & Bye" to her the next morning, at the Aero Club.
Sunday
We all had breakfast at the hotel; then we all packed up, to check out... all of us got dressed no probs - except Zoe, who had the mother of all tantrums! She just did NOT want to get dressed...it took two of us to dress her, & that's not often the case! Maybe once in a blue moon!!
...I drove to the Aero Club, & Julianne gave back the Dinky Stuka Dive-Bomber (Junkers Ju87B) that I lent him (well, She was a He then) many years ago...very appropriate, as I got a DVD about that 'plane in the mail on Sunday!!! I then hugged her goodbye, & took the kids to the Queenstown Airport, where we watched a big white bird (B737) take off.
Then we went to the waterfront, & popped down under to Feed the Fish...there's an underwater window with a fishfood release system, where fish come & eat pellets - also, the Blue Teal Diving Duck dives down for a nibble, as well! We all had lunch at the buffet meal at the hotel; then headed home to good old Timaru....a lovely weekend... :D)
Sunday
We all had breakfast at the hotel; then we all packed up, to check out... all of us got dressed no probs - except Zoe, who had the mother of all tantrums! She just did NOT want to get dressed...it took two of us to dress her, & that's not often the case! Maybe once in a blue moon!!
...I drove to the Aero Club, & Julianne gave back the Dinky Stuka Dive-Bomber (Junkers Ju87B) that I lent him (well, She was a He then) many years ago...very appropriate, as I got a DVD about that 'plane in the mail on Sunday!!! I then hugged her goodbye, & took the kids to the Queenstown Airport, where we watched a big white bird (B737) take off.
Then we went to the waterfront, & popped down under to Feed the Fish...there's an underwater window with a fishfood release system, where fish come & eat pellets - also, the Blue Teal Diving Duck dives down for a nibble, as well! We all had lunch at the buffet meal at the hotel; then headed home to good old Timaru....a lovely weekend... :D)
posted by Nev at
9:05 am
2 Comments:
it certainly sounds like you all had a lovely weekend Doc..you and M always seem to know how to entertain your kids..and as for Zoe and her tantrum..i'd have just let her stay in her jamjams..lol..less hassel..after all..all the kids "teenagers" are wearing jamjam bottom to school and out and about over here these days..jamjams are the in thing to wear..maybe Zoe is onto something..lol
ps..you used to have your comment box set up so it was a box ontop of your post !! why the change ?
Nice idea, Freddie...except that Zoe wasn't wearing PJs...she took the lot off.... ::)
PS: I didn't change anything.... no idea how it happened...
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