Recharge!

Wow!  It's been a little while since I posted, but life got really hectic really quickly (as it is prone to do!).  My evening class in Applied Business Growth has started, along with the homework i need to do for that; the deadline for my first assignment in my PGDipEd is less than 4 weeks away now; and school continues to be full on busy!
However, I have had the most amazing Easter weekend which has left me recharged and invigorated... and ready for anything (and everything!)
My wonderful husband was working down in Wanaka, photographing a jetsprint meeting, and initially I was going to stay at home and work through the weekend.  However, friends of ours who were meant to be racing decided to pull out - which left them with non-refundable flights and a motel booking... which they gifted to my husband for his birthday.  So I got to go to Wanaka with him this weekend, and it was fantastic.
We got up in the early hours of Friday morning, after about 3 hours sleep, and I drove us to Wellington to get the plane.  We checked in at about 5.30am, and enjoyed a bit of people watching while we waited.
After a beautiful flight, watching the sun come up over the mountains, we landed at Queenstown and picked up our hire car.  We enjoyed a leisurely breakfast and then headed off towards Wanaka.  The 120 Km drive took far longer than it needed to because we kept stopping to admire the view!
The scenery was absolutely breathtaking, and was just so impressive that even I was rendered speechless... managing an awestruck "wow" every time we rounded another corner and were confronted with yet another majestic view.
I will admit to a little nana-nap once we had checked in to our motel, but in my defence I had been awake for 12 hours already, and it was only 2.30pm!
Once I was refreshed and awake again, we drove out to the new jetsprint track to check out vantage points for the camera and we were really impressed with the new facility that has been created there.
A long dinner with a large crowd of our friends (also in town for the racing) was a brilliant way to end an amazing day.
Although we worked long and hard on Saturday, photographing the racing and the presentations, it was the most beautiful working environment - I found myself just stopping a few times and looking around me in awe and wonder.  What a place to call "work"!  Hubby was as excited as a dog with two tails when he was invited up in a helicopter to take aerial shots of the track... he just about floated through the rest of the day on the adrenaline-rush of hanging out of the side on the end of a harness!
We drove back to Queenstown early on Sunday morning, and arrived back in Wellington just before lunch.
After a weekend of glorious weather, Wellington lived up to its wet and windy reputation, but we still enjoyed a mooch around, people-watching on Cuba and Courteney.
This was the best weekend - and the longest time that we have been away together without the kids in 16 years.  Another plus was that the boys stayed at home on their own... number one son is 16 now so was "in charge".... and they managed really well.
It was only a short break, and it was damned hard work with long hours of travelling, but it was brilliant.  My brain feels refreshed and ready for anything.
Bring it on!