Showjumping

I had another nice lie in this morning but it was only just after eight when I got up.

The weather was cloudy again but warm but I do miss seeing the sun.

After breakfast we took Tot out and she walked all the way again so twice in a row, not bad.

We then went to the airport for Jon's second gliding lesson. I had forgotten my jacket but fortunately for me Jon had one in the car which was just as well as there was a mean wind blowing out there.

He went up a little late and as last time he was only up for about ten minutes I thought I would be able to stand the cold. However, he was up a total of 50 minutes and I was beginning to get very worried. He came back eventually and had had a really good time flying nearly as far as Rotorua and actually doing a lot of the flying himself so he was very pleased with himself and is now looking forward to the next class, still two to go.

We then went for a very late coffee and then to buy some house plants which don't appear to be very popular in NZ and there is not much choice but we did manage to get three and some herbs and a tomato and a pepper plant.

From there we went up to Tauranga race course to see the showjumping. It was free to go in and most of the competitions were for amateurs but the last one was for the professionals and it was a World Cup classifier which was interesting but we only stayed long enough to have lunch and watch a few of the riders before we went home.

We didn't do much this afternoon, Jon potted the plants and I read my book and carried on deleting a lot of the duplicated photo albums that seem to have appeared on Picasa and is making our C drive look very full but we are now back in the blue again.

Jon cooked a really good T bone on the bbq for dinner and we had that with salad.

Hopefully I am going to get an early night tonight instead of staying up all hours on the computer!!!

WEATHER
Warm and sunny but a little windy 22 degrees