Day 21 - Auckland

Special Guest Blogger, Joshua Sakovits

Today is our second full day with the Padrutts and it is also Sunday so we accompanied them to their local church, Harbourside Church.  

The church service was very good, and it was all the more special as the pastor and his family were from Adelaide and were also from the same church that we all attended. The pastor and his wife were very welcoming and recognised Mazz but unfortunately not Paul. It was a service very much like the ones in Adelaide. 

The service finished a bit before lunch so we stopped at the supermarket, which was very much like Centro Colonnades at Marion except much much smaller. We stopped at Countdown, and bought some supplies for lunch and dinner. Once back at home we all sat down and made our own sandwiches with the home-made bread that Judy had so kindly made the night before, which was brilliant by the way. 

Not long after lunch we were treated to another Haka by Michael which was truly frightening which I believe was the point. We then played a large game of hide and seek with everyone involved, even the adults. We would have played it outside as well but it was raining. Paul and Andi went our for a walk and came back just in time for dinner. Surprising when there was work to be done. Dinner was a sweet potato pie with tuna and salad which surpassed all expectations.

 After dinner we didn’t do much save playing another game similar to  hide and seek except you had to try and reach a point that the seeker was guarding. There was some arguments over whether or nit the aussie rules or kiwi rules should be played so we ended up with a combination of the rules. We didn’t do much else but slowly drifted off to bed as it became later and later until the adults were reminiscing over old ski days that they had spent together while Josh (the Elder) wrote up the blog yet again.