So Birthday Surprise is done and dusted and the car packed and we head to the ferry! Smooth sailing, gas up with fuel that is over 30 cents cheaper than we pay here (what the fuck is up with that?!) and made it to Tauranga :) Stayed with someone very dear to my heart even if she is grumpy as hell when on nightshift hahahaha and visited with another someone who is very dear to my heart and then took Bear to the beach in Mt Maunganui before we left town, altho he was a bit overwhelmed with the wide open spaces, which is fair enough he doesn't even venture outside at home yet, he's only just hit 11 weeks! So he played in some bushes there for a while LOL.
And off we head to Auckland!!! We see mum first... Not such a good day when we rock up in the afternoon just before dinner, no real recognition there at all initially, but we did have Bear with us and he was a distraction... The 2nd visit the next morning was amazing, mum was in the lounge with many others listening to a guy singing there for them all, Marcus and I snuck in beside mum and sat on the floor beside her chair and the recognition was instant and enthusiastic, she initiated contact with Marcus by stroking his cheek and his hair which she hasn't done before and it was just a beautiful hour there listening to the music with her. One song was poignant and mum was holding my hand stroking it and the tears were just streaming down my face, there was no hiding them, I was nearly dehydrated afterwards! And after the song finished the singer asked if I was OK LOL. I said "oh yes" and he gave us one of his CD's hahahahaha!!! The next day's visit was equally as good and that one involved Bear again. She engaged with him too, gave him a couple of cuddles and laughed her ass off when he was running and slid into the wall (it was funny!!!!) and then our last visit before we had to head off again, was at breakfast time and altho she knew who I was it was not a good time of day for her :( But so so lovely to see her have a couple of great days like that, best I've seen her since she's been in there, so really nice to share some nice times with her and Marcus like that.
Got to see the rest of the family in Auckland too which is always lovely when Marcus is there too to spend some time with his little cousins, nothing much has changed since January, Marcus is able to wind them all up till the parents are telling them all off LOL.
Stayed with some amazing people I have recently met in the journey to start up BACA (Bikers Against Child Abuse) in Marlborough, I have never met such welcoming people as some of these BACA people... you want to start this up? You are family! Just like that :) Smiley and Rowdy (every BACA person has a "roadname" are the most awesome hosts and feel very lucky to count and be counted by them as friends. Had a BBQ there on Thursday night (Anzac day) before we headed off south again. Great company, fun times
And I got to catch up with a few of the biking buddies ex FaceBook on Thursday too. We took a sprint out to Mercer and had great laughs, gossips and bullshit session with a few of the Kiwi Truckin' Bikers. Shit I miss the peeps from FB but dragging a couple of them over to MeWe(.com) which is like FB used to be 15 yrs ago LOL, not that I want MeWe to get busy, I like having time to "do life" back again! LOL
And then south again. Stopped in with Brenna on the way home, awesome inappropriate dinner conversation (sorry Brenna, it was just too much fun taking the piss out of the kid LOL) Marcus once again fell in love with her GSD (no photos this time, but here is one from January when we were there on the bike)
And stopped in just up the road to catch up with a pretty cool chick there too, and Bear got to play with her young Collie :)
And after another smooth sailing, we are home again... missing people, a little teary at times, but home with my babies now and sadly back to work on Monday! Thank God it'll be pay week to help cheer me up LMAO. Another adventure done for now.... P.S. the tiny terror hasn't stopped playing hard out since we arrived home 3 1/2 hours ago LOL
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