Labour Day… or a day off to you and me!

20/10/11- 24/10/11

Well it’s Labour Day which means we are not working. Yippee. So what do we do on a day off? We head to the local agricultural show. Before we arrived we picked Tane up a friend who agreed to take us to the show and give us free tickets. We agreed to pick him up from the house he was house sitting. The directions he gave us were simple enough but when we turned down a track and appeared to be heading into a field we thought we were lost. Alas no it was the tracks that lead down to this fabulous high end house with pool, manicured gardens and a swimming pool. Oh how we had house envy!

Once at the show we realised it was going to be hot hot hot. Being a good boy I slip slop slapped and put on some sun tan lotion. But as it got hotter I needed more and guess what there were handy dispensers all around the show ground. The highlights of the show included cake flavoured vodka, free tasting food, a race to start chain saws (hell yes that was fun) a sheep with 5 legs native to an area nearby (an extra lamb chop) a huge huge pig and a bull with an amazingly large set of balls.

The afternoon was spent pottering round in a topless car before heading back to the house for some more house sitting/ partying/ swimming and drinking. A proper Kiwi day.

Saturday and Sunday well that was work again for me and James relaxing on the sofa. There was a rather important event on the Sunday night. Rugby world cup final? Well we had a proper kiwi night out. After work we headed to Bruce and Marians house for a BBQ and some beer. The BBQ was loaded with meat and the fridge well stocked with beer. We ate, drank and shouted at the TV like it was going out of fashion. Fortunately but some would say undeservedly the all blacks won. This we decided was the best outcome for the collective mental health on the nation. All the TV has shown is the rugby it’s on the news, adverts and programmes has been rugby. There are signs everywhere and there is a real world cup fever here. Whilst the Americans may need to spate church and state I think the Kiwis may want to give rugby and state a trial separation!

Monday and it’s another public holiday and even better we got paid as it was our usual day of work. Again it was hot and sunny so we did what any self-respecting Kiwi would do and headed to the beach with another friend. It was amazing not having to go to the airport and fly to the sun. It’s here on our door step. The water was too cold and the current too strong to swim but our picnic and music kept us entertained. I again liberally applied sun tan lotion, and did not but, James did not but was also lobster free by the end but our friend Tory who is part Maori went red!

The afternoon was spent in our garden under the lemon tree playing cards before heading up to the bee hive of the gay mafia for dinner. In all a blissful day!