Boogie Boarding

This is us riding the Mount Maunganui surf on our boogie boards earlier today! Wow! Ok.......you're right........it's not us, but it soon could be.

Despite it being early Autumn here the weather is still blue skies and 23-24 degrees every day. This afternoon we went to buy our boogie boards. Tom decided that like every budding surfer he may want to stand up so a bumper board, with 3 fins and an ankle strap, was for him rather than a boogie board. Did he stand up on it?.......NO!!! Did Lynn manage to ride the waves spreadeagled on her bright yellow (chosen as a contrast to the chilli red mini) boogie board?.....NO!!! Despite that, it was fantastic fun- the sea was like a warm bath, the surf was ideal for beginners, and as we were dunked and thrown about we understood yet again why we chose to move to this fabulous place.

We looked the part in our trendy board shorts bought for us by the Swiftshore crowd. The beach is vast and we certainly weren't the oldest people in the water. The best bit is that nobody laughs as they are all struggling to look super dooper cool too.

We arrived home exhausted and with grazed knees. We enjoyed the rush hour drive home with the boards sticking out of the mini. People were clearly surprised to see the two of us and not two trendy, bronzed and beautiful babes!

All that exercise left us starving hungry so Tom's prawn and scallop pasta dinner, washed down by yet another fab Sauvignon Blanc, was just what the doctor (Lynn) ordered.

An awesome day indeed........................sweet as!

More to follow soon................................................................................