Day 17

i had the awesome opportunity this morning to help my best friend out and look after her new born baby for an hour while she had a dentist appointment. it was in newmarket, so i just wandered around with her in her buggy. after a while scarlett got restless and i had to get her out of her buggy. she was getting hungry and of course i couldn't do anything about it!!! she was crying of course and i was getting weird looks, i couldn't work out if it was sympathy, or, 'look after your baby properly'. i've always been mistaken for the mother when looking after infants. i guess i do have a 'motherly' figure, actually, i have bigger boobs than all my friends who are breast-feeding at the moment...it's sad really - such a waste!
anyway....... scarlett got pretty unsettled, but man what a good bub. i just held her for the next 30 mins as opposed to leaving her in her buggy and she just dropped back off to zzz, with the odd little cry. lucky she's still so little, much older and i wouldn't have coped for that long!
tonite i went up to mt eden village to catch up with c for a drink...(non-alcoholic in my case - so bored of this already). the sky was amazing and i love going up mt eden at the best of times. the view of auckland is amazing. so we went up after our catch up and i got to wallow in the hills, lights and water of auckland.
sunset is so much more rewarding to me than sunrise...i guess it's coz i am up more often at sunset than sunrise, but i also think it's my love for the west coast beaches in auckland, and sunset just makes it all the more beautiful. sunset light, in my mind is harsher than sunrise light, so it fits, with the ruggedness of the west coast, perfectly