Roger's Last Crew Day!

Hi All, 

Well we were down in Auckland for the weekend for Roger's last day out on the Coastguard boat as a rostered Skipper. I'm pretty sure he had a great day and then when he came off the water a lot of the coastguard group were there to to see him and have a few beers etc... to wish him well. Everyone hung around for about an hour or so and then they all had "Things to get too" so they all said there goodbyes to Roger and I and left. I told Roger we had to get changed because I was taking him out to dinner, so we got changed locked the shed and got in the car. There we were driving along and I told him I just had to drop the swipe card for the shed back to Debbie's on the way to the restaurant little did he know that most of the people that had said goodbye to him at the boat were at Debbies waiting for him for a surprise BBQ/Party. He saw some of them as we pulled up and was a bit blown away I think, it was a great night though and I think Roger was really happy to be able to spend some time with the people before he was gone for good from the group.

Here are a couple of photos from the day, nothing overly exciting but pretty special to me as it is prob the last time I'll ever see him in the coastguard boat as a skipper.

The Boat launching

Roger's last time filling out the paperwork

On the boat.

Roger being presented with his log book.

So Roger and I are getting everything ready at the mo to head down to Auckland (yes again) to spend christmas with the family. I'm quite excited but first of all we have some friends coming to stay with us for the night arriving tomorrow morning. They are sailing a friends yacht up here and we're gonna take them home with us when we go down on Sat. This is gonna be a full on weekend/christmas holiday I think. we are gonna go out to the movies with mum on Sat night I think which I'm really looking forward too, we have a really tiny cinema up here and the movies are a bit behind.  It is Ashley's 4th birthday (my niece) on sunday so we'll be having the party sometime on sunday and then monday (christmas eve) we are having the family christmas dinner so I'd say most of that day will be spent sorting out the food etc for that. Christmas really is my fave time of year so I'm looking forward to that, then on tuesday (Christmas day we're gonna have a bit more of a low key day, we're gonna head over to Roger's Mum's for breakfast and then back to my mum's and we'll prob do the present thing with her and then pack a nice picnic (leftovers) and we were thinking of heading to western springs park for a nice picnic (weather permitting of course). then on Wednesday we'll pack the car up and head back home and we're gonna spend the rest of Rogers holiday exploring this part of the country and finding all the good beaches and stuff.

Well should prob go and get some more housework done so that it's all clean and tidy when we come back next week.

Have a great christmas.