Follow up on Open Home

We arrived up at Fossils Retreat after work on Friday 29 January at 11 o'clock at night. Breathless, we opened the back door and gazed in admiration at our new kitchen. Drawers galore. Denise immediately had to start unpacking everything remotely belonging to the kitchen and put it away. Ditto the fridge. (We had bought a Buy Now fridge for $120 off Trade Me). We finally got to bed at 2.45am.

Folk started arriving shortly after 11 o'clock. The BBQ was set up, and over the next 12 hours, we had 30 friends and family and neighbours pop in. The new oven worked splendidly to satisfaction (apart from the fact that the symbols in the manual in no way look anything like the symbols on the oven face which can be a bit of a problem if you are looking to fan bake, for example) and the day went well. The weather was brilliant.

One of Denise's daughters made us a beautiful housewarming cake, which was just scrummy and kept Jennifer well satisfied for the next few days.


Cutting Tracey's housewarming cake in the new kitchen

On Sunday morning, Denise sat up in bed at 8.45am and announced 'I can't do a day like yesterday today'. Que sera, sera ... the weather had turned cooler and rainy so no BBQ outside. We had 12 guests on the Sunday which was nice and cozy - all sat around on our couch/bed and assorted plastic picnic chairs admiring the half painted kitchen (the half that the kitchen fittings went on) having a few drinks and a few laughs.

By tea time, everyone had gone. We had plenty of leftovers in the fridge to last the next few days.

No work was done on the place this weekend.