Originally Joss was meant to be round his Dad's for the weekend, although this changed last minute due to a misunderstanding in communication. This meant we had the weekend with Joss which was nice but a little frustrating as I had planned to go to the football in Wellington to see the NZ v Peru game. Luckily Liza still allowed me to go so I didn't totally miss out on my plans for the weekend. The morning was spent with Joss while Liza and Liz went out and sorted out a few things, and I then headed into Wellington for the match in the afternoon while they stayed at home and did some baking with Joss.
The match against Peru was the first leg of a play off for a place at the world cup. Peru ranked 10th in the world were no mugs finishing above Chile to secure this match and until the last round of fixtures were above Argentina! There were a lot of Peruvian fans in town and there were an estimated 5000 in the ground and they made a lot of noise. It was great to see a haka live before the game and the national anthems were good. The game finished 0 0 although NZ absolutely defended for their lives so it was an exciting game. I headed back after the game to put Joss to bed, although I wished I was going out in town after the game as there were Peruvians everywhere and they were very lively so it would have been fun!
The following day we had a more chilled out morning, watching the All Blacks game against France which was actually quite exciting as despite destroying France in the first half the French came back in the second half before finally losing. After the game we headed into Wellington to go to the market which was a lot bigger than the one in Lower Hutt. We got a few groceries before grabbing some lunch which had a pretty infinite selection of cuisines. I went for Chilean in the end which brought back some good memories! We then headed back to Eastbourne, where Joss spent a couple of hours with his Dad later in the afternoon. I spent this free time taking Max out as he hadn't been walked all weekend.
On the Monday I just had a chilled out day as the weather wasn't too clever with showers all throughout the day. The following day was a bit nicer so I decided to take Max out for a long walk once again, this time along the coast to Eastbourne, and then up into bush via Hawtrey Trig and down to Days Bay. Max was exhausted by the end though as it was quite a steep path and the kind of track not walked very often so some pretty uneven terrain. It was good to get out though.
Under normal circumstances it would have been the week Joss goes round his Dad's on Wednesday and Thursday night with the weekend at home, however after what happened at the weekend Liza decided to change this as it would have meant if we swapped weekends with his Dad he would have been been staying round there for 5 nights. Instead it meant he just went round his Dad's for dinner on the Wednesday after school, to then go round his Dad's for the weekend before the routine returned to normal the following week. This effectively gives me two consecutive weekends off which is good. Joss had sailing in the morning although it was a very still day which isn't ideal conditions for sailing. After lunch I had a few hours spare so I decided to go into Petone down the beach as it was a nice afternoon.
Thursday was another nice day, so I popped into Eastbourne during the day where I went to the library to read a couple of travel books for inspiration. I even found a pretty exciting multi geocache here which was hidden inside one of the books on the shelf! In the evening we had a firework display in the garden although the fireworks were more small and pretty than impressive. The following day Joss went round his Dad's for the weekend, which meant after doing the housework and looking after Joss after school before his Dad picked him up, I went out in the evening. I just popped to Queensgate and looked round, stopping via the pub on the way home.
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