Thursday, May 3
Today was a do nothing day…just the way we like it actually. We woke up early enough to get a good start to wherever we wanted to go (if we wanted to go somewhere). Josh got up before me and when I walked into the kitchen he said he found something for us to do. Something Hole or another…a granite thing part way over “THE MOUNTAIN.” Dah dah dah. No one wanted to drive over the mountain again.
I suggested the Nelson Lakes but it seemed silly to drive down and then come back up around to Motueka again since we had one more night in the place. Eventually, like the house in Lake Taupo, we decided that anywhere we went would not have as good of a view as the place we were at so Josh made us up a fire and we were content to hang out in the cottage all day.
We love the cottage and we played a game of monopoly. Setting a one hour time limit was definitely the trick to having a fun time. Josh dominated the first game. Then we were on our own to do some reading.
We made a spaghetti lunch and a scrambled egg dinner trying to use up the groceries that we’d bought. Both meals were good. We also played another game of monopoly in the evening which I won but Josh’s feelings got hurt when I could contain my laughter when he consistently had a string of bad luck and he had to pay me money. I couldn’t help it though…it was really funny!
Again, we love this cottage and I kept saying I didn’t want to leave and Josh asked if we could extend our stay. Well, I’d love to stay but I am also excited to see what tomorrow and the rest of the trip holds for us. I know the next two places (hostels) will not be as nice or as private as this place so I’m trying to prepare myself. Heck, we don’t even have a en suite bathroom at the next place.
I finished my book “Making Babies: Stumbling Into Motherhood” which was an okay read but definitely do not see why the Irish authors gets heaps of praise…parts of the book I didn’t even understand, but maybe that’s because I’m an American. I started reading my “Live Strong” book written by cancer survivors, however, every story I read I start to hurt in the place where that person had cancer and I can’t take the thought of getting cancer so it’s definitely a hard read before going to sleep. Psychologically, it’s easier though than reading Stephen King’s The Tommyknockers out here (just barely) so that’s what I do.
Josh and I set the alarm for 9:30 but say we’ll try to get an earlier start so that we can see more stuff tomorrow with the big drive we have to Westport.
Today was a do nothing day…just the way we like it actually. We woke up early enough to get a good start to wherever we wanted to go (if we wanted to go somewhere). Josh got up before me and when I walked into the kitchen he said he found something for us to do. Something Hole or another…a granite thing part way over “THE MOUNTAIN.” Dah dah dah. No one wanted to drive over the mountain again.
I suggested the Nelson Lakes but it seemed silly to drive down and then come back up around to Motueka again since we had one more night in the place. Eventually, like the house in Lake Taupo, we decided that anywhere we went would not have as good of a view as the place we were at so Josh made us up a fire and we were content to hang out in the cottage all day.
We love the cottage and we played a game of monopoly. Setting a one hour time limit was definitely the trick to having a fun time. Josh dominated the first game. Then we were on our own to do some reading.
We made a spaghetti lunch and a scrambled egg dinner trying to use up the groceries that we’d bought. Both meals were good. We also played another game of monopoly in the evening which I won but Josh’s feelings got hurt when I could contain my laughter when he consistently had a string of bad luck and he had to pay me money. I couldn’t help it though…it was really funny!Again, we love this cottage and I kept saying I didn’t want to leave and Josh asked if we could extend our stay. Well, I’d love to stay but I am also excited to see what tomorrow and the rest of the trip holds for us. I know the next two places (hostels) will not be as nice or as private as this place so I’m trying to prepare myself. Heck, we don’t even have a en suite bathroom at the next place.
I finished my book “Making Babies: Stumbling Into Motherhood” which was an okay read but definitely do not see why the Irish authors gets heaps of praise…parts of the book I didn’t even understand, but maybe that’s because I’m an American. I started reading my “Live Strong” book written by cancer survivors, however, every story I read I start to hurt in the place where that person had cancer and I can’t take the thought of getting cancer so it’s definitely a hard read before going to sleep. Psychologically, it’s easier though than reading Stephen King’s The Tommyknockers out here (just barely) so that’s what I do.
Josh and I set the alarm for 9:30 but say we’ll try to get an earlier start so that we can see more stuff tomorrow with the big drive we have to Westport.
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