Our time spent on a volcano

********UPDATE********

Our house has officially gone unconditional!! We sign the papers at the solicitors for our new home on Friday :)

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Straight after I finished writing my entry for yesterday Bill walked in the door, after finishing his niteshift, and decided we were going for a walk UP MT RANGATOTO!!! There was a special advertised on the radio offering a family pass on Fullers ferry for $25 so we threw everything in a bag, grabbed jackets and snack food and headed into the city as fast as we could. We are 25mins from the city on a good travel day. We had left home at 8.40am and the ferry left at 9.15am. At any other time of the day we would have got there in no time but at peak hour traffic it was going to be tight. We found parking 2 blocks away and ran!!! We got there 5mins too late lol! The ferry had already left!!!

So we settled for the next ferry leaving at 12.15pm. With a few hours to kill we wandered up Queen Street for some window shopping, grabbed a bite to eat for lunch and got back in time to hop on the ferry for our adventure. We set off for the 1.5hr walk up the volcano to the summit. We made it to the top in just under 1hr. The amazing thing about that ... we had a pushchair to push as well!! (Well Bill pushed the pushchair) Navigating the steps, roots and rocks. We had all worked up a good sweat by the time we arrived at the top. Our plan was to head down the otherside which involved a longer walk around the island. But we had to take the right turns or we would end up on the otherside of the island to the ferry pickup. The last ferry for the day left at 3.45pm so we knew it would we didn't have any time to spare. The problem was we didnt have a map on us (we had tried to memorise the sign at the start of the walk) And the signage during the walk was terrible. We got to a few junctions and without any signs weren't sure which way to go. Of course Bill thought we should go one way and I thought the other! lol... So I was a good wife and went with Bill's instincts... of course a wrong decision would then be Bill's problem and I wouldn't let him forget it if we had to spend the night on the island!! 1.5hrs later we hadn't reached our destination and we knew we only had 40mins left before the last ferry left!! This would be fine if we knew we were heading in the right direction!! If we popped out on the otherside of the island, we would be in trouble!!! It was suspence to the very end but yes we had gone the right way!! LUCKY!!! Big sighs of relief!! lol

The weather had been good to us all day, threatening to rain and finally downpoured once we were on the ferry back to the car! It was a fantastic day!! I went over a couple of points for the day but worked out that we had walked/run around 18kms!!! Lauren did fantastically too!! At only 8yrs old she kept up with us the whole way, not complaining once!! And Jese sat happily in his mountain buggy the whole day!!

Weigh in tonight and don't think it's going to be a good result. I did really well with exercise this week but had those few blow outs with my eating at the start of the week and it's TOM time due the next day or so and I can feel my body bloating up today. I'm not going to get too down if it is a gain because it will be a good result next week with TOM finishing and my exercise efforts showing up on the scales by then.

Eating for yesterday ...

BREAKFAST - cereal 3pts, milk 0.5pt
SNACK - cereal bar 1.5pts
LUNCH - seafood subway 5pts
SNACK - cereal bar 1.5pts, half banana 0.5pt, half caramel kitkat 3pts (yum!!)
DINNER - chicken 3pts, pasta sauce 1pt, veges 0pt, pasta 5pts
SNACK - custard 3pts

Total ... 27pts/22pts
Saved ... -5pts
Total saved ... -10.5pts
Water ... 6 glasses
Exercise ... 4hrs walking 18pts
Total bonus points ... 34pts :)

When we got home last night there was a message on the answerphone to call the builders. After contacting Michelle from the building company she informed us that her boss had accepted our $17,000 deposit no problems!! YAY!!!! That makes life so much easier, meaning we can pay off all our debt when we sell this house and truelly start saving. The next 6 months will be one of the few times we are actually debt free with savings in the bank!! Homeless ... but debt free lol :)

So now all we are waiting for is this place to go unconditional. Which is supposed to happen today. I'm hoping we will hear this morning sometime so we can go to the solicitors this afternoon and sign up to our new home "unconditional" YAY!!!!

I'll let you know as soon as I hear anything! :)
Lyn :)
SW 107.4kg
CW 86.4kg
GW 65kg