A wedding, road trip and two games of cricket..

..all in one weekend. Well, it was a long weekend.

On Friday night we attended my Dad’s wedding to Laurel, whom he has been with for six years now. They had the ceremony at home and then took us out to dinner at Mollies. It’s the flashest restaurant I’ve ever been to! It was beautifully candle lit dining. We even had a piano and opera performance while we ate our entrée.

I have a picture of the menu here. I had the quail, baby chicken and sticky date pudding. Rob ordered the salmon, lamb and chocolate marquise; so we each got to try a bit of everything.
The food was delicious and the night was great fun and of course we all looked great!

If you want to look at more photo’s from the wedding and dinner, I have a set of 49 photos here.

On Saturday morning I headed off to do some work and make some money while Rob went to his first cricket game for the weekend. I went out to see how it was going after work. Unfortunately they didn’t win.

On Sunday it was an OK day outside and we felt like doing something. Rob came up with the idea of going to Goat Island, up North, as he has never been there. I thought this was a great idea, road trips are fun!

It took just over an hour to get there. It was a bit overcast and very windy, but still good to get out. After taking some photos and checking out the fish we headed back into Matakana for lunch.

We came across a pub having a shear a sheep, eat a pie & drink a pint competition. Very typical New Zealand country town stuff. Unfortunately we missed it by about 20 minutes. So we headed into the pub next door for food. I had a seafood chowder which, honestly, is one of the best I’ve ever had! Rob had some BBQ chicken wings which he thoroughly enjoyed.

After lunch we went to the Matakana Vineyard where we enjoyed some wine tasting (well I did, Rob doesn’t drink wine). I bought a bottle of Pinotage for $25 which is reasonable. I am yet to enjoy it as I felt a bit light headed after all the free wine.

Sunday night we went to Rob’s parents for dinner and a catch up. Both Rob and I feeling exhausted, no idea why, because we were sitting in the car for a few hours I guess. After dinner we picked up some DVDs on the way home to watch. We got through two; Jerry Maguire and Men of Honour, both great movies.

On Monday, Labour Day (in NZ), Rob had another cricket game. So I decided I’d go watch too. It was a yucky day, very windy, cold, grey and it kept raining on and off. What sucks most is that Rob was playing for a different team, so none of my friends (girlfriends of Rob’s friends in his cricket team) were there to watch with me. Luckily I could park the car right up close to the game, so I could sit in it and not freeze my ass off.
After the game we went back to the cricket club and caught up with everyone. I bought five $2 raffle tickets and won $50!! WOOHOO! We didn’t get home until after 9pm, so today I am feeling a bit lethargic.

It has come the time that I must get off the damn internet that distracts me so easily and start some exam study. Grrr.. my enemy!