G & J away from home

Monday, 30 May 2016

Got off to a less-than-auspicious start as we were all the way across Palmerston North before getting a call from Anne about a bag we'd left behind.  Luckily it wasn't an essential one, being only food for the day and a half we spend at Anne & Lloyd's place; even so we went back for it.  Embarrassing enough but we'd told Beth we would be arriving early ... and passed my brother, Blair, out surveying on a roundabout half-way across town.  So Blair saw us going one way, then the other, then back in the correct direction.  I daresay he's still laughing!

But eventually we pulled up at Beth's place.  We had to have the obligatory passport check:

Excited Beth with Passport

We had three short stops - lunch at Flat Hills, Waiouru Army Museum to pick up some books for Anne, and Tokoroa to have afternoon tea with Beth's daughter Kathleen.

We arrived at Anne & Lloyd's just after 7pm and have had a drink (2 out of 3 of us), our tea (from the bag we went back for), and a cup of coffee.  Beth's now settled down with her cross-stitch and I'm writing the blog.  This is probably the pattern of how the next five weeks will go.

There, the first step is done.  We're really on our way.


Reading:

• Summer of the Great Secret by Monica Edwards (Jane)

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