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My plan for the long weekend is to do a kayaking trip on all three days, I've started off well with a short paddle from Ngatitoa domain out towards the reef and back, tomorrow I aim to paddle from Makara to Owhiro Bay, and Monday a circumnavigation of Kapiti island.
Then we will hopefully get some rain, and I can do some whitewater stuff during the week.
Exciting! I have kayaking planned for the coming week too, but only a beginner tour in Abel Tasman 😆
That's the very first sea kayaking trip I did actually, in a rented double. It's a beautiful place to paddle, I've been there three times now.
I've done plenty of messing around in kayaks in my years, but never anything too physical and never a tour, so I'm looking forward to it. I hope my arms can handle it, it's probably been 10 years since I was last in a kayak!
The distances in Abel Tasman are pretty small, so you'll probably be OK. Do you know what boat you will be paddling?
Not sure, but I am sure I will be fine. It's for beginners after all, I'd guess we will go at a pretty leisurely pace. I like the think I'm not that unfit, so I'm sure Illness handle it OK though I might have sore arms the next day.
Today we start the elaborate plan of taking kids to grandparents and adults returning in time to catch a ferry on Monday to our first ever holiday with no kids 😀
I didn't quite get the shed finished. I got the roof on, which opens up with gas springs, but after testing it a few times all the pressure bubbled out of the gas springs and now they don't work 🙁. This was actually in one of the reviews so I shouldn't be too surprised. Apparently they sent a replacement easy enough so I should be able to get a replacement too.
Failing that there is a good has strut replacement place in Auckland too.
Enjoy that no kids thing! The break without them every now and again is so essential. We only manage one or two weekends a year with four of the blighters.
Last year was the first time we had a night with no kids since the eldest was born (so 6 years). A week will feel very strange!
We're at 8 years and counting without more than a night kid-free/parents only. I think she had one sleep over a year or so ago. She has her first school camp this year, but now we have the 1 year old.. feels like it might never happen again! We don't have any family nearby to leave them with either.
Hope you enjoy it!
Yeah same issue here, no family particularly close. Plus, leaving three young kids with someone almost feels mean!
We are leaving them with the nearest grandparents, about 3 hours drive away, after they had some practice looking after them for a night on a couple of occasions last year.
Two of them have spent longer times with grandparents, but 3 is definitely much harder than two (especially for a single adult). Two kids (any two) of our kids can play together but add in the third one and you get arguments. Plus you only have two hands for crossing the road, two knees for sitting on, two sides when you're reading a book, and so on.
Oh man, three kids is too much for me, I drew the line at two. I can’t imagine it doing it. I feel like I’m already struggling with our second, she’s so different personality-wise. I think you guys deserve your week!
Hope the grandparents can cope, or just spoil them so they don’t complain too much 😆
Haha since starting school we've had a kid or two go to grandparents for a few days each holidays. It makes a huge difference even having just one less, though we pay for it when they come back with a messed up routine and full of sugar!