31st December 2008- New Years Eve and tomorrow is another year

A nice walk along the beach followed a good breakfast and the rest of the day we took it quite easy and watched the boats and people on the beach.

We had planned to have dinner alone this evening at the Galley Restaurant down town but Robin phoned and when discussing plans for the next few days indicated could they join us which we accepted of course.

We arranged to meet at the restaurant and Robin had informed them of table numbers on our booking but when we arrived the waitress said yes the table for nine was ready. What I said I think there must be some mistake as there are only four of us to which she was very confused.

Anyway Robin and Lorraine turned up with some friends of theirs and we immediately went in to the Champagne or the NZ equivalent. But it was a good evening and then later on the rains came and so Jennifer took the others home and I waited at the restaurant for her to pick me up.

So we got home about ten pm as we did not want to have a late night as there were three couples joining us for a New Years day BBQ and we needed to be fit to handle that. Robin and Lorraine and guests stayed up till three thirty am, we understand, too late for us this year.