\u201cHe stood there and was as white as a sheet. I remember thinking something terrible had happened.\u201d<\/p>\n
The pair said the rest of Sunday was a blur.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter a couple of hours, we left the house to try to get some sense of normality. We went for a walk and got some lunch, but we felt so sick we could barely eat,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s hard to concentrate on anything after finding out you\u2019ve won that much, that\u2019s for sure,\u201d the man added.<\/p>\n
Lotto Powerball winners say their $15.3m win was “surreal”. Photo \/ Lotto<\/p>\n
After a few days taking in the news, the couple are beginning to make plans for their future.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ll make sure our children are set up, and we\u2019ve always wanted to retire somewhere near the beach, so this will help us to do that,\u201d the woman said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re not extravagant people so we\u2019re not looking for anything flash \u2013 just somewhere our family can come and be together.\u201d<\/p>\n
As for their plans, the man said he may splash on a few treats. <\/p>\n
\u201cI need a new phone, so that\u2019s first on the list. Then who knows \u2013 maybe a gold-plated toothbrush.\u201d<\/p>\n
His wife added: \u201cHe told me he might go out and buy a gold Rolex, so I reminded him that he doesn\u2019t even wear a watch.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have been looking at the price of steak a little differently since we won, though. We might even treat ourselves to fillet instead of rump next time we go grocery shopping.\u201d<\/p>\n
The couple are planning to keep their win quiet for now. <\/p>\n
\u201cMum\u2019s the word until we\u2019ve got our own heads around it, and after that we\u2019ll tell our children.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cHe stood there and was as white as a sheet. I remember thinking something terrible had happened.\u201d The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":624794,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[190284,305224,95,51,7972,138,8414,3029,51702,38040,10506,1132,111,139,1536,69,20878,294,1326,51714,97,165,27051,8229,3257,1533,6027],"class_list":["post-624793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-190284","tag-153m","tag-and","tag-auckland","tag-beach","tag-business","tag-couple","tag-eye","tag-fillet","tag-jackpot","tag-lotto","tag-million","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-next","tag-nz","tag-powerball","tag-retirement","tag-shop","tag-steak","tag-supermarket","tag-their","tag-themselves","tag-they","tag-treat","tag-will","tag-win"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}