Goodbye to the folks

So unfortunately the time had come for Mum & Dad to return back to snowy England. Luckily I managed to do a few swaps at work and managed to get the thursday off so I could go into Auckland and play for a bit before they went home.
We got up on thursday morning and headed into Auckalnd Centre, after wandering around the shops we headed over to our America's cup sailing experience. Great fun & quite hard work putting the sails up & taking them down again, Mum decided to show us how it was done though by taking then helm and watching me and Dad do all the hard work!

We then for a nice (if a little disappointingly small portioned) meal on the viaduct. After lunch we went for another wander around Auckland (some may say we got lost, I like to think of it as a random wander) then James came to our rescue after work and drove us out to Auckland beautiful east coast for a spot of crazy golf on Tamaki drive, and not that I like to gloat - but guess who won!

That evening I treated Mum & Dad to a nice meal in Molton in Mt Eden enjoying good food and wine. Unfortunately the next day I had to go to work so I headed over to the airport after work just in time for a teary good bye!
Hope they enjoyed themselves cos I certainly loved having them here!