More Visitors - Yay!

Considering that we've been living on the other side of the world from our friends and family, we've been so lucky that so many of them have come to visit. This week we enjoyed visits with 2 more guests. We welcomed Gladys back to Auckland last weekend. Actually, she welcomed us back as she was staying at our place while we were finding our way back from Queenstown. She was here to attend a foot and ankle conference in Tauranga and tagged a few extra days on her trip to visit with us. We spent some time catching up, and ventured into Parnell to visit the boutiques and art galleries. We also found, in our opinion, one of the best coffees in Auckland (not a small feat) where they roasted their own imported Indonesian coffee beans. Ahhh...it's going to be hard going back to Timmie Ho-Ho's.

Saturday brought another visitor to Auckland, if only for a brief period of time. Dick (aka Zaidie) had a board meeting in Perth, Australia and connected through Auckland. Fortunately for us, he had a 6 hour layover and Georgie and Scott met him at the airport and brought him back to Evesham Ave. After a few minutes of adjusting to "3D Zaidie" Georgie was back to her old self, showing off, playing shy, and loving being chased around the living room. We grabbed a coffee and brunch in St Heliers and Dick spent some time playing with Georgia at the playground. After a few (? several) handfuls of Pineapple Lumps, we took Dick back to the airport to connect on to Oz. We look forward to next weekend when he'll be staying with us for a bit longer on his return home.