Kennedy Park

 On Sunday 16th May we made the trip back up SH2 to Kennedy Park in Napier. We had only just set up when two large busloads of highschool students arrived! Just our luck! However they appeared to be from St Peters and Dio in Hamilton (one busload of boys, the other of girls) and were no trouble at all. I wondered how the time controlled showers went down with the girls. They left on activities at 8.30am, so I just had an extra lie in.

On Monday we had a leisurely start with reading the morning Herald. Then we headed off to Hastings to get stuff we cannot get in Gisborne, and then back to Napier to join Fred and Leigh for lunch. Freds neutrophils are only 0.2, and he should not be out in public seeing us. He seemed very subdued at first, but brightened as we chatted.

Just time for one more winery - Mission as they had a special on Malbec, that we are particularly fond of after  our trip to Argentina. Of course we went to Argentina to find Mendoza Chardonnay, the clone we had on our property, but it had all been wiped out by disease. This lead us onto a wonderful Chardonnay made at Mission from Mendoza and Clone 15. We had a lovely tasting guide here, who ended up telling Duncan of her hole in 1 experience at golf. He left green with envy.

Its such a lovely setting in the well maintained Mission Buildings.

The road home was very slow, due to gusty winds and many stop/go men and women. We were also a bit concerned about one of the feet of the caravan which had split the tightening up mechanism. It wasn't very stable overnight, and we worried that it might drop down while we were travelling. Luckily one of our neighbours has just opened up a "Trailer and Towbar" business and was able to fix it for us.

All ready for our next adventure in Spring!