Dad and Emily heading back to town along the lakefront dual purpose trail. Dad sporting is borrowed KHS 29er single speed and Emily taking it easy letting me do all the work.
Mum was there too: trucking along on the Santa Cruz Blur.
When we got back, our friend Cathy had just arrived from Queenstown for weeks work down this way and stayed with us for the weekend. She's in the wine business so we had a couple of bottles that were very nice.
Sunday we went out to the Cardrona Pub for a beer in the garden before dropping Cathy off at Cromwell (another town that proclaims itself to be the "fruitbowl of NZ). Emily picked herself up a Ferrari toy car from the gas station, but realistically is only getting the hang of her new trike.
Mid October - Spring you say ?
Top of the Crown Range this morning.....3 degrees mate. Brrrr.......Raining when we got up this morning so we went to Queenstown.
Our first time eating at Ferg Burgers. Kind of like Burger Wisconsin but cooler because they've stood the test of time. They started up with a small deep fryer for the chips and two Warehouse BBQ's for the burgers in a small alley that only the locals could find......must have been a winner as the the big guys did not last : Burger King - gone. Hardrock Cafe - gone. Nice chow and you can get a beer if you wish. Good splash of fries for $4 -lucky Emily was there to help.
Some mandatory shopping because Wanaka has 4 bike shops, but you can't buy mens undies...go figure. Not that I needed undies I'm just making the comparison between shopping precincts. They have shops that you'd want on a day to day basis and we don't, mind you got two gas stations, but can't say how much longer we'll need them. $1.24 per litre for diesel down here BTW.
Here's Emily hanging out on a street corner after lunch:
After norrowly avoiding the wrath of the parking nazi we hit the Warehouse out at the airport. Hard to believe that place is a necessary evil down our way. Yes they sell men's undies. Not that I needed any.
Emily slept on the way there and the way back which was great as she has a sound command of the word "no" these days. Monkey girl !
I went for my first road bike ride since we moved here and Keighley finished off mowing the lawns - I know what you're all saying "Christ Richard she's 6 months pregnant !" Well one has to keep up the exercise I say and biking is pretty much out of the picture......
So all in all a nice day out for the Redwoods.
Dad and Emily heading back to town along the lakefront dual purpose trail. Dad sporting is borrowed KHS 29er single speed and Emily taking it easy letting me do all the work.
