Where in the world are we?

More accurately, where in NZ? Well, it's the final trip in our north to south long term plan. We left on Boxing Day (who in their right mind does that is another story) and spent a night at Waitomo Caves. The Spellbound trip is wonderful, however one of the Black Water rafting ones wasn't. Curly's Bar takes forever to serve the meal.

Next four nights in Coromandel Town - it's beautiful, but Whitianga would have been better. Waiau Waterworks is fantastic and well worth the entrance fee and the cafe was great too. Driving Creek Railway was great fun too. The next day brought rain and so we headed to the Driving Creek Cafe - unfortunately no one pointed out that it was vegetarian tasteless food only and they wanted to charge a 10% surcharge to use a credit card! If there'd been an McDs here we would have headed there afterwards. Cathedral Cove is beautiful and I am so proud that I actually walked there and back! It took me 50 minutes there and nearly an hour back and the recommended time is 45 minutes.

Tomorrow we head to KeriKeri in the Bay of Islands. Will upload photos at some other time

Fourteen!

Colin is 14! I can't believe it - just tonight Adrian and I were watching some home videos taken in 1997 and there he was such a cute little 2 year old. How the time has flown by and I wonder where he'll be in another twelve years time? He went to LaserForce with Ross, Adrian and a friend and then came home for pizza and cake. Here is he with Jacob our godson blowing out the birthday candles.

A Big Catch Up

Here's a photo of me and our nine hour old god-daughter, Erin. She's so lovely!
Reports have arrived and I'm very pleased with how both boys have done. Ross will be in streamed Maths and Streamed Science next year (Year 11) and he's really pleased too. He won Most Improved Bowls player at prize giving
Colin has improved academically since mid-year, but there is still room for improvement next year. He won Most Improved Water polo player
Colin got for his birthday, a fishing trip with Pete Lamb Fishing. They went out last night round the South Coast and were out for about six hours! He had a wonderful time even though he didn't catch anything and wants to go out again.
I am still working hard and can't wait for Friday to be rid of all of it! Then I can plan Christmas for eleven people

A new baby girl!

Our new baby god daughter born this morning at 6.44am. Here's her quilt:

We've seen her and she's beautiful!