Monday, February 22, 2010
Ten years of happy marriage to my best friend and favourite person are a very Beautiful Thing indeed. Celebrating this involved many other beautiful things. Here are some edited highlights:
- The long-awaited Mystery Destination turned out to be Christchurch, It's the closest I could get to Cambridge, explained Jack when we arrived there on Friday night. We spent a couple of days ambling about enjoying the sun, the gardens, watching punters on the Avon, finding good places to have a beer and generally enjoying being sprog- and schedule-free.
- Mostly schedule-free, that is: the real reason for Christchurch emerged the next day. It was so that I could drive a Centurion tank over a car. Mere words alone are inadequate to convey the awesomeness of this experience; photos and footage will be supplied as soon as I get time to suck them off the camera. Suffice it to say: Best Anniversary Present Ever.
- The spiny and rather Gigerian Nepenthes hamata at the Christchurch Botanic Gardens, and Jack's great pleasure in seeing a specimen for the first time in the flesh.
- Sleeping in. Both of us, at the same time. Two days in a row.
- Arrived home to a rapturous reception complete with shrieks of joy, bone-crunching embraces (for her size, the Magster packs a lot of wallop) and cries of Mummy! Daddy! – or in Maggie's case MummyDaddy! (apparently we are a collective.)
- That night I rounded off the weekend by taking my mother along to band practice on Sunday night. She seemed to enjoy herself.
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