Partying at Mangawai

As Alison has just hit that big five oh milestone, we thought it would be good to celebrate by renting a holiday house away from Auckland and inviting a few friends around. So off we went to a great place at Mangawai heads. there we 8 of us there, me and Alison, her sister Gillian, Janet, Greg and Sharon & Kevin and Charmaine. Joan came up for a while but had to head back to look after the family.

Unfortunately for me I came down with a cold/cough on the Thursday, as we left for a long weekend on Friday lunchtime, but I was still able to enjoy the weekend even if I was a bit quieter than normal and took the occasional nana-nap.

My folks very kindly came up to look after the kids which was very nice of them, I think Megan & Duncan would have been very bored with the weekend, and Megan was suffering from the same cold she gave me.

The weekend went as expected, too much food and drink, some walks outside to work a little of it off, and plenty of good company. Altogether, very worth while.