The day after our engagement party dawned calm in weather, and loud with many family members getting through their morning routine. I was feeling hung-over, not that I’d drunk so much, but more that I’d only had about 4-5 hours sleep. We all marched in and started with pulling down the marquee, and collecting all the rubbish. There was so much of it! It took us all only an hour or so to clean up the property, and Grammy did a dump run, which was incredibly helpful.

Lunch time rolled around, and Dad was showing the nephews how to catch bees without being stung. Oh so funny. It brought back memories of Dad showing me how to do it, but I was always too scared to do it.

Ranginui catching bees

Dad teaching Keran and Paul

I sent a message out to everybody to come and share in some kai with us, (but nobody turned up) there was sooo much food left over that we had another huge feed. Kylie came over and brought Natasha (our friend from highschool who I never kept in touch with) and her sister Michelle, and another friend Karla from the gym came. Then it started to shower and we were super-glad that we’d had everything cleaned put away, and taken care of before it started to rain.

I finally had a shower once all the family and friends had left, and there was still more cleaning, organising food and sorting to be done. Boy was I exhausted when I went to bed. But wait there’s more! Anthony and I were rung by Demitius on our cellphone (he was inside) because some kids had thrown eggs at the house, which scared Kathy so much that she had to ring the police. Once all that kerfuffle was sorted, we went back to bed, only to be rung around 1:30am by the police to tell us there’d been a few more eggings down the road, but they couldn’t find the kids. Then at 3am, Demitrus’s taxi shuttle rang the home phone to tell him he’d arrived to take him to the airport, and Demitrus wasn’t even out of bed! So I really got no sleep that night either. Talk about hung-over feeling. Blurg!

Current Mood: exanimate

Tags: Engagement, Family, Friends