ATAAHUA ORA

One long weekend down - one more to go! We left on Saturday afternoon and headed to Uretiti Beach - which is on Bream Bay, just south of Whangarei. One of our favourite summer destinations - the beach is wide, the sand is white and surf is usually rocking. The camp is managed by DOC, which means two things: it’s cheap ($7 per person per night) and very basic (no hot water or electricity). But who needs hot water when the beach is only 50m away from your tent? Our three days there were spent on surfing (OK, OK, trying to stand up on the board - and we’re both getting pretty good!), floating in the warm water, lying on the beach reading, lying in moonchairs reading and occasionally sipping a cold beer. Aaaah, life!

All good things must come to an end, though, and so we packed up around midday on Monday and headed to Auckland (in the worst traffic yet - we took SH16 and averaged 60km/h. Infuriating!) where we spent the evening with Agata & Tomasz watching 36th Chamber of Shaolin on a huge blow-up screen in Western Springs. A great end to a great weekend, if a little cold around 11pm…

A lot has been happening in the last two months since the wedding. First, the after-wedding rush (and we didn’t even go on a honeymoon - maybe that’s the why it felt so busy), then Christmas, then holidays with Marianna travelling all over the North Island. Then back to work and at the same time still trying to show Marianna as much of Auckland as possible. Now she’s moved onto Sydney and things are slowly stabilising. It still feels like there aren’t enough hours in the day! However, this weekend we have Auckland Anniversary (which means a long weekend) and next week is Waitangi Day, so this should give us a bit of a breather. I’m still trying to put up photos taken after the wedding!

Anyone notice the difference? I also switched off trackbacks and pings because I almost had a heart attack when I looked in the database and saw all the trackbacks left by bots. So no more. I’ll trial this plugin for a while and see how many bots can crack it!

Sorry everyone, but I had to temporarily disable the ability to post comments. This is due to the overwhelming number of spam messages left by bots, I just can’t keep up with cleaning them up at the moment. I promise to have this back up and running soon, just need to find a couple of evenings to implement a solution!