A weekend at the beach....

So I arrived at Layne's last night, in a scene vaguely reminiscent of a bad horror movie. The bus driver dropped me off on the side of the road, in front of a ute with its lights on. Layne and her sister Rauchelle were going to meet me on the side of the road with their lights on so I figure, 'ok cool' the bus drives away and i'm walking toward this ute. Then I realise that Layne and her sister are not infact in the ute, two scary very hairy bearded bushmen are in the ute. oh dear. and it's a very dark country road. hmmm
so i go and stand behind the ute and call layne. 5 phone calls and 15 strange minutes later i'm safe and sound at their house.
Phew
This morning I am greeted by all 8 of Layne's siblings, and we end up chilling out on my bed talking and laughing and me hearing lots of stories about life here up-island since i last came to visit (last october). I was then presented with two letters, written by 2 of her younger siblings.
Seriously. classic.

"Dear Hillary, toveli
I'm happy that you're coming, and I'm happy that you're staying. I'm happy that you like Layne. I'm happy that you're staying for two days. It will be fun with you here, and we'll have lots of fun. We'll always be happy and I know that you'll like it here with Layne. And the age that you'll be is fine"

Toveli is 5, and dictated the letter to Layne. She knew it was my birthday and to her 5 year old mind, I'm positively ancient and need to be re-assured that it's NOT the end of the world that I am infact 18 years older than her. thank goodness.

So today has been great, lots of laughing and joking and fun, playing in the sand, in the rocks and generally just living :)
It's a good weekend. The sun is good too, my body is in shock after being in my fluorescent editing cave for the last week. Jill would be proud of my tanning :)

And of course, on a sunny almost-summer day, what should we do? Weiner roast and SMORES
tehehehe

mmmmm, fire......

mmmm....hotdog......

mmmmm.....smores..........

mmmmmmmm

Yeah. They're pretty cool......