A day to ourselves

For months now we have been wanting to take some time just for us - us meaning, no kids... Since we've been here we've only had about 2 maybe 3 nights to ourselves, so this year we have decided to make time for us too.  We need a good balance between home time and couple time.

Most of our home time is either spent with the boys or at the beach or when the boys go fishing with their dad.  I have been feeling like going for a drive for such a long time and I managed to turn Graham's arm and he agreed.  Yeay!!!!! 

My parents offered to take the boys for the day and night, much to our delight.  But things didn't quite work out the way we wanted it to,  Ethie wouldn't stay and he cried and cried until we decided to rather take him with us.  I just can't leave my littlest boy behind knowing he is in tears and feeling sad!!!   

It was a rather rainy and cold day at Bucklands Beach.

This is some of the yachts moored right near the beach.

Yes, this was our lunch of burgers, chips & milkshakes right on the beach!!!

All the driving was a bit much for this very tired boy of ours, he did wake up for his lunch in time!!!

My husband enjoying his lunch.

Then the rain stopped and it started to clear up beautifully!!!! 

You should see this on a sunny day, really a pretty place.

This is our new fav delish dessert - deep fried pineapple with cinnamon sugar!!!! 

After lunch we drove around a bit more and then decided to head for the shopping mall at Botany Downs, this is a real upmarket mall with the loveliest shops!!!!  Wish we could spend the whole day there...

We found the Starbucks, we had mocha frappe!!!!!!  Just for you, Cands, I took this photo!!

Well, after having a wander and look around this beautiful mall and a visit to the toilets, we discovered this really nice SA shop, Inside Afrika.  Unfortunately, we were so excited that we totally forgot to take any pics.  We boughts some bikkies, Chokkits and Eat-sum-mores.  We were going to dinner at Clinton (a h/school friend of Graham's that we recently found out lives in Auckland too!!!) and Taryn's place so we got them some Ouma Rusks (her fav) and also chokkits.  We also went to Kmart where we bought Ethie some new winter pj's, undies and the whole family's Easter chokkies. 

Dinner was great and we had some good grown-up conversations going on without any little ears around to hear every word too.  We have found some friends now and that is a real treat in itself.

Ahh, it was so great spending time with my hubby.  Just doing what we love and chatting all the way, and no, not about the kids, just grown-up stuff.  

We decided to set definite dates just for US time more often!!!!!!