Early days in Olek's visit

 In the main, I will let the photos tell the story...

Olek eats meat and we don't, and cooking for vegetarians is different from cooking for meat eaters. My cooking style has changed considerably! To make sure Olek had a meal that he would love (i.e. not a pumpkin and kumara curry ...) we went to the Roast Shop. The meal was so big it was best served in a bowl!

The day of the big bake - 9 loaves of sourdough. Yay!!

Olek, David and I tried out putting up the BUG, i.e. the Blow Up Gazebo. Olek was assigned the role of pumper upper - well, he is by far the youngest of us all.

And then it was time for Olek to practise putting up his tent - important skill as he'd be sleeping in it for weeks once we went away.

Amazing how much like his dad he looks!

The BUG is up and the tent is getting started.

Tents are so much easier to put up these days.

The fly is on.

And now for the camp stretcher.

David heading over from Brian's place to our new place before the carpet was due to go down. He loves his new backpack vacuum cleaner! I don't, because the hose is the perfect height to knock ornaments off bookcases ...

Olek wanted a swim so off to Waikanae Beach we went.

And in he went

And under

5'11" next to 5'1' ...

and 5'6"

The battle of the folded washing and the tea towel was ON!!

That battle became the tipping point competition - could David withstand the force and height of an 18 year old?

We moved stuff from Brian's before moving day to lessen the load on the day. I wanted to use the trolley for these cases, but Olek was sure he could carry them all at once. He was not wrong ...

And off he goes

The next day was actually moving in day - so more about that in the next post.