Activities and things of interest this past weekend (01 - 02 April)

Friday evening quietly at home. Sherrie's friends popped in to introduce themselves to us, I insisted as they are "boy" friends and she has been spending a fair amount of her social time with them. Seem like boys, to me……… So Des and I enter a new era, our eldest, it seems, has a boyfriend, I am paranoid, jealous and outright bloody afraid!
Extended her home time 10PM last week to 11PM this week…… meant I lay in front of the TV and padded around till 11 before playing taxi…….mmmmm - old enough for boyfriends, but too young to be driven around by them!

The Bulls were pathetic, again, and I only saw about 20 mins of the Stormers game. They were not much better, struggling against the bottom of the log team….. How painful it must be for you all. My team went down as well, but it was quietly expected in these parts. I think we would rather lose to the Crusaders now and beat them in the final. (Go the 'Canes)
So that was Friday and Saturday arrived, good weather!

Last cricket match of the season, Kapiti College A vs. Kapiti College B, yep, at Kapiti College. Travis plays in the B side, as much because he arrived in the second half of the season and that the sides are pretty evenly split, so that both can compete and because the league is not very strong. Strength and quality is found in the representative age group cricket, played at District level. Travis picked up 1 for 12'ish in 4 overs and was not needed with the bat. The B team won by 4 wickets chasing 102 off their 25 overs.
Travis has cracked a nod to the under 17 Trails for the Horowhenua / Kapiti District team trials, this coming Sunday at Waikanae Park. A tough one, coming in at 14, almost 15, but would be great for him if he could sneak a place this year already! Would mean trips around the North Island and some tournament weekends etc.

Des and I popped across to Porirua to have a look at a car in between the cricket action. Too expensive for the year, mileage and condition, so we trudged back to Kapiti fairly disappointed. Have spotted a 2000 Toyota Camry, which I will test drive one evening this week!

Saturday afternoon was also the start of the soccer season. I am playing for Kapiti Coast United Football Club (KCU FC) and our first game was against the second masters team from KCU FC, so not a difficult game, on paper! With 10 mins to go it was 1-1 and we were lucky to get the winner in the last 5 minutes. I played second half and within 2 minutes of being on was questioning why I was doing this to myself, AGAIN! (No exercise since about October last year). Des, Meghan and Travis found it most amusing and I heard a number of giggles form the sideline, which resulted in scowls and posturing on my side. I, unfortunately, remain competitive (some may call it "thuggery") and gave a way 2 free kicks, Think they were the only free kicks in the whole game…… but then again I was always pretty clueless when it came to the finesse aspect of the game!

We go the 3 points and enjoyed a couple of beers at the club rooms after the game. Quiet evening at home……….

Sunday was a little overcast, but really warm and fairly muggy. Pottered around the house and rebuilt the home computer. Was so full of virus and spyware and adware that it had to be done. Also meant I did not have to pad my stiff and fairly sore bones around the place, to the rest of the families amusement.

I had also promised 9 holes of golf with Travis for Sunday afternoon, so yes, I never learn……

The format and software rebuild completed without any dramas and some decent firewalling, security and protection measures are now in place, so the ADSL can be put to its intended use. Still have a few apps to install again and a clean out of the archived stuff (videos photos etc to CD)

Travis easily beat me over the 9 holes at Kapiti Golf Club. Nice place to have a relaxed round, no big issue on attire and must have golf shoes etc… Public course, with good greens, a few challenging holes and very little water, at the moment. However, the bush is "bushy" so if you go long on couple of the holes, your ball is GONE!

You can check the details of the course here, though no pics,
www.nzgolfcourses.co.nz/kapiti/

Des made us a great roast for Sunday late lunch, early supper and we sat around the dining room table, me complaining about how sore I was, the rest of the knuckleheads teasing and poking fun. Travis was plain gloating about the golf!!!! Sent him to bed early! (Only joking)

So that is the weekend that was. I have included another website to check out, this has some stunning photographs and worth a quick look through.
http://www.enterprisecoastnz.com/

Will beg the kids and Des again to contribute to the blog! Hope they will have something for everyone this week.

Alan