In My Shoes: Here comes the sun, little darling...

After a few days of rain and cold weather, the sun came out this afternoon! That deserves a gosh darn Hallelujah if you ask me. We went into town today to pick out some more movies, have lunch and to get supplies for a little party we are having tomorrow (more on that after the event though...), and when we care out the weather was so fine that i decided to take a little walk and enjoy it, after being cooped up indoors! This afternoon i watched the movie Flyboys, which i rather enjoyed, before Jo's Dad arrived from Christchurch and we all had dinner together.

Yesterday it poured with rain, but we still ventured out to Granity to go to an eccentric cafe there called Drifters, where i must tell you, the food was excellent! I know i sound surprised, but honestly, Granity is a tiny town, so i can't say i was expecting all that much. I was pleasantly surprised though, i had the seafood chowder and some kumera chips and it was delicious. Jo had a double beef and cheese burger which was so enormous i wasn't sure how he was going to fit it into his mouth, but of course he managed....

Afterwards we stopped by Matthew and Rochelle's, where Jacob went a bit cuckoo (must have been his fizzy drink) and what followed has turned out to be my favourite 'Jacob' quote so far - we brought the kids The Wizard of Oz, so he has been watching it and was telling us how the scarecrow needed a brain, the tin man needed a heart and so on. He proceeded to get the bizarre idea of stuffing bits of clothing down his pants which he decided would be his "brains" (i assure you this wasn't as bad in reality as it sounds when i write it down), and in a moment of total cuckoo-ness tried hard to convince Jo to taste his brains "Taste them Uncle Jo, taste them! It's OK, they taste like chicken!" To which we all burst out laughing, because really, what else can you do to a line like that? My brains taste like chicken. I love kids, i really do. Later we went back after the kids went to bed and watched an old Kevin Costner baseball movie, Field of Dreams, which Matthew and Jo assured me was a classic - when i asked whether it was a movie completely about baseball, or whether baseball just featured in the movie, Matthew waved away the question as if it were mere semantics (which i took as a bad sign), and told me to simply sit back and "enjoy the magic". Hilarious. I did enjoy it in the end though!

They've also been busy assembling a home made something-or-other for Matthew's guitar, some sort of amp pedal board thingy that results in being able to make the guitar take on different sounds, quite cool but beyond my musical comprehension.

Here they composing a work of utter genius I'm sure, as well as some other pics...