It still feels like I'm on holiday and my 1st weekend of NZ living has happened.
Friday night we had fish n chips from the local takeaway - which incidentally is also the local video shop that I mentioned in an earlier post (they have some seriously odd combination shops).
Saturday daytime we went to look at some houses in Invercargill - from outside only as Estate Agents don't work weekends here. I'm not sure what people are meant to do if they both work - I guess you take time off work to house hunt.
On the plus side - I've applied for 2 jobs in estate agents so that's definitely a Mon-Fri...perfect!
Saturday night we were umming and aahing about going our for food...in the end we decided we'd go out Sunday for lunch instead so the OH (Other Half) ordered a pizza and I decided to have something at home.
Sunday we went for a lovely walk along the coast in Riverton up to the Beach House restaurant. When we left our home the weather was fine (we'd been threatened with rain for 2 days on the weather and they kept getting it wrong...so I said "they've been saying rain for days, let's just go") so off we toddled. About 30 mins into the walk the rain started....it doesn't just drizzle here - it hammers down. So we walked through it - the OH actually had his hood up (his friends in the UK will know that that's just NOT the OH ) and I had a scarf wrapped around my head - living up to my 'nana' nickname by the OH . So we took shelter near a takeaway for about 10 mins to see if it eased off and it did for a bit but we just walked through it and arrived at the Beach House drenched. We sat down and to the OH's dismay they'd run out of mussels (he'd been talking about having them ALL weekend!) so I ordered blue cod and the OH had a steak sandwich. The waitress who had spoken to the OH in the morning came to ask us if we'd been for our walk and on glancing how wet we were her question was answered! Had a couple of drinks with lunch and warmed by the log fire in the restaurant. It was delightful. We made a new friend in the owner - Daniel. He's only 26 and bought the place about 8 weeks ago, he has big plans for an already fantastic restaurant so that will be interesting to keep an eye on. Then we walked back at about 5pm (already v dark - it IS Winter) and chilled at home.
On the way home along the beach were these really strange birds that all stood behind each other behind a little tiny hump of sand - we think they were standing out of the wind but there were hundreds of them. When a certain bird rain a few feet across the beach they'd all run and stand behind it again - very strange to watch.
Then Monday it was back to work again for the OH ...and back to Mahjong Titans for me...
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