Well that was a fairly adventurous weekend then. The nice thing about it was that Nikki & Ian finally made it over for a visit. The worse thing about it was that despite having the most gorgeous – hottest day of the year in fact – on Friday, the weather over the weekend has been absolutely insane. Yesterday we went for what was supposed to be a lovely riverside stroll to Richmond and got caught up in not only in the most awful downpour, but also a very rapidly raising tide which almost left us stranded. Soaked to the bone we had to make our way through ankle deep water in order to get onto drier land. At the worst places the people in front of us actually took their shoes and socks off and rolled their trousers up! If it hadn’t been so miserable it would have almost been funny. I’m so annoyed I didn’t take any pictures of our little survivalist trip, I must have had other things on my mind at the time… I was so wet and cold that I’m not very surprised that today I woke up with a sore throat and a blocked up nose. Great…

The things looked up in the evening though when we went to buy a stupid amount of spirits, and an ice crusher which was essential, in order to make Mai Tais. They were very nice and certainly lifted our spirits, even if in hindsight we could have chosen a little bit less complicated cocktail recipe requiring less bottles to haul back. 😀

This morning we woke up to a white world. Yes, it was indeed snowing! Heavily! In April! How completely surreal. Now of course, when Nikki & E have gone and I’m dying of a cold under the blanket, it looks lovely and sunny out. Typical…