My Kidless weekend :)

This weekend Billy has gone to Wainuiomata with the Rovers :)  Daniel is with his dad as per usual the weekends.  So I am kid free :)

Friday night
As soon as I dropped Billy off with his mates here in Napier I took a 3 km walk along the Rotary walkway between Pettigrew Arena Taradale and the expressway Napier, New Zealand

Upon arriving home after that I turned up the radio utube videos real loud and sang and had a good old evening.  It was also quite neat as my sis and I (via Facebook etc) researched where the old family farm originally belonging to the first of my ancestors to come out to New Zealand of my family and then my grandfather lived and owned.

Saturday 
I had an epic 17.5 km walk between Westshore and Bayview

walked right past the Hawkes Bay airport

lights for the airport?

all eyes on me 

felt like a shepherd a few times

unsure what this is

where i stopped for a late lunch before heading back to the car  along a shorter route - Id already walked 11.6

 returning back to the car

once Id done it I took a quick dip in the sea before deciding to go home for dinner

Sunday 
Im teaching Sunday school in the morning and Billy gets home in the afternoon Im hoping for another shorter walk

My Journal - week ending 18th October

Saturday
Today we had a quiet day.  We did go into town at one point, Daniel and I, for a walk.  Hes a good motivator.  He likes to chose the way we go and when we got back to the car after only 20 minutes he was quite happy to walk for another 10 minutes :)  

Sunday
church this morning.  Then a kea meeting in the afternoon, to discuss with the other kea leaders from Napier and Hastings about an upcoming trek the keas will be doing.  

Monday Had a walk after I dropped Daniel at school and went to The Warehouse and the library and back up to the school where I left the car via a clothing shop where I picked up 2 new pair of pants in a sale :)

Tuesday
Was only going to have a 1/2 hour walk ended up walking for almost an hour :)  Then went to Mitre 10.  I have set myself a challenge this week (actually it might take a lot longer) to get rid of the weeds around my garden.  They are knee high to a grasshopper.  I was thinking of getting someone in to do it, then decided it would save me money if I did it myself.  So brought a weeding machine and got started   I only aim to do an hour an a day.  Then when I have completed one part am going to use Round Up in the area in the hopes that I wont have to do it again for a long time.  Im not really a gardener, yet I always seem to rent houses with too big a garden for me to manage.  

Wednesday
Attended the weekly womens bible study again at church.  Its had a break with the school holidays and we have started studying a new book - Idols of the Heart by Elyse Fitzpatrick.

Daniels cub scout group have separated from my kea group.  So he went along to cubs tonight :)  We are hoping that the keas will enjoy the meetings now without the older more boisterous cubs around :)  I stayed a while as the needed an extra leader to help cope on the first night back - leader issues not them cubs this time LOL.  The cubs themselves arent that bad really expect they are generally older and play harder :)

Thursday
The high light of today was keas.  I baked purple cupcakes with them :)  Purple because thats the kea colour :)  The keas as an organisation are  34 years old this year :)  It was suggested that we make cupcakes from the organisation and ice them however I knew we wouldnt have enough time so I decided to make purple ones instead.  They were actually brown on the outside and purple inside :)  Billy came and helped which was nice and he really enjoyed himself :)

I also took 5 keas though a ceremony making them official keas :)

My Kea Pack with a couple of parents and my new leader (the man :)) and the ex kea leader who came to help me of which I was VERY grateful as I am still learning - she is now a cub leader :)  

Friday 
Today I worked at the Retreat house cleaning.  There had been 7 people in there and they had left quite a mess.  I was so pleased that the lady whose job I am taking on (shes moving on to other things) came and helped.  It would have been VERY off putting on my own.  A very productive time there though - I made up heaps of beds, cleaned 2 bathrooms and vacuum cleaned the whole house.

I was SO tired and sore (my back, which worries me a bit - seems ok now) that I was in bed by 7 pm hense why this post is going out this morning not yesterday

Stairs and Steps - a walk that left me wondering

Today for the photo a day challenge the prompt was stairs.  I took a walk in a nearby suburb and when I got to posting my photo I was left pondering.   

Although these look like stairs (to me) they are actually part of the roof on the Blue Water Hotel 

these actually are stairs of the 1933 National Tobacco Company

I actually went in there today.  For a long time i didnt think you were allowed.  Today I risked it and was rewarded with this what I consider great photo of a wonderfully decorative place (sometimes a girl has to pat herself on the back)

other great features of this building include

to find out more I suggest you read this website :)

There were also interesting stairs and steps along the way