More on that list of what we've been up to...

4. We celebrated our 4 year anniversary in style last Thursday in style: a small tasting platter at The Lobby in the SKYCITY Grand Hotel, followed by a traditional Iain Cosmopolitan at home.



3. Now that our weekends aren't spent buying sinks and pricing doorknobs, we have resumed our social life. This has been an absolute novelty. The first year we were here, I was in school so our social life sucked. Then it was all about the house. It's so nice to have a weekend arrive and have nothing to do. Wanna go have brunch? Sure. Two hours of Tivo'ed Gossip Girl? Why not. Sleeping in? What's that? It's great. For example, last weekend we had brunch with friends on Saturday, and on Sunday we hoped in the car and just drove around to different cafés. And why the hell not?

These pictures are from 3 different places we visited. The best part is that we had no intention of doing this, and two of the places we found we didn't even know existed. Really cool! And a really inexpensive way to check out a bunch of places.

One of the places had this insane back garden with a terrier running around, a huge cage of pigeons, and tropical plants everywhere. I can't even imagine how cool this place must look in the summer!