Hey,
Well what a morning, it Alex's birthday today. Later at 10:30am everyone will be arriving for the party we are going swimming! I cant wait. We are going to Q.E.II. Its going to be awsume! I'm taking a friend with me! At Q.E.II there is everything, rapids, hydro slides, normal swimming pool but waves turn on, a heated pool, steam room everything! I cant say much at the moment but i will type again when we come back from swimming!
Bye xxxxxxxxxxxx
Sunday 29 March 2009
I'm back again
Tuesday 17 March 2009
Chinese Lantern Festival
Busy, is the word I would best use to describe this event. Don't get me wrong, we had a good time and the lanterns were great; the park was covered in them, it made for a great spectical. The entertainment was also good, if you could find a suitable vantage point, but the queue for food and even just trying to move around on occasions was too much like being in the UK - lol.
It's amazing how quickly you get used to the lack of people (and traffic). If we had done this event straight after arriving, we would have been fine about it. Nothing worse than being down at St.Andrews on derby day, but it was a shock to the system this time around. I still can't get used to the fact that "Asian" here, is a term used to describe people of Chinese or similar origin. It's caught me out more than once.
Sunday 15 March 2009
Chorus Cicada
Wow these things are noisy. We had a picnic, one hot summer weekend during February and were frankly deafened by the noise. At this point, not having a clue what they were, I was told by a friend that they were crickets!
As you can see, we got some video and some still pictures of the bug like skins that crawl out of the ground (having lived there for 14 years). Eventually we also tracked down a drying out adult on a low branch, so we were able to do some research on the internet, see Chrous Cicada or this one for more information. We've youtubed our video so that you can see it here, but its also in the video album.
Thursday 12 March 2009
Horse riding
Georgia has started riding and horsemanship lessons on a Saturday. We went to see the lady a couple of weeks back and found out all about the layout of the lessons and what is expected. The lesson itself lasts for 30 mins, but Georgia has asked if she can stop on to help out and learn more about working with animals and horses. She now has an 8:30 start every Saturday, going through to mid afternoon, when we pick her up.
I'm pretty sure she is enjoying herself, but I will let her tell you all about it :)
Tuesday 10 March 2009
Scouts
Alex has joined the local cub scouts! He seems to be really enjoying himself, and its really cute to watch the pack closing ceremony when I pick him up.
From what I can gather a new lady has taken over (I think she started the same time as Alex). She is clearly very experienced with cubs and is introducing a lot of things that cubs should be doing....like lowering and raising the flag, tying knots, having Sixers and Seconders and knowing the cub scout law. The strange thing is that non of the existing cubs seems to have come across this before and they all look very bewildered.
Monday 9 March 2009
World Buskers Festival
Set over 10 days during February, the streets and parks of Christchurch were filled with street entertainers from all over the world during the World Buskers Festival. SOme of the shows were pretty spectacular, espcially in the Aerial Park. There was also a section with acts especially for Kids. I think we have some video somewhere in the ever growing video section of the albums (don't worry they are all short clips or around 2 mins) but in the mean time, you can check out Christchurch
Saturday 7 March 2009
ITS A MIRACLE SOMEONE APART FROM DAD IS WRITING
Hey everybody,
well do i have some news for you, my sister has started horse riding and my brother has started rock climbing and cubs, so im going to look at St.Johns this coming Thursday and i am also going to look at Girl Guides soon.
I went swimming with some people from my school, it was like racing you could choose your race and choose wether to be in none competitive or competitive, so i chose none competitive because i didnt know how fast the people were that i was racing against. So i went into None - competitive and the races, backstroke and freestyle, i was sooooo nervous. I went to my first race which was Freestyle and surprisingly i came THIRD WOOOHOOOOO, i was loving it so i signed up for breaststroke now to it was my time for backstroke and then breaststroke and for both i got nothing........................just joking i got............................FIRST IN BOTH OF THEM, now i am gobsmacked and reallyyyyyyyy happy. And now i have a green 3rd and two blue 1st ribbons in my room. If we do it again i'll probally do competitive but i may get into zones and have to race other school (biting finger nails) but i am soooo happy.
In a weekend or a school day off or something we went to the willow bank reserve, it was sooo cool, a gorilla posed for us and i touched a slimmy eel, it was weird.
Now it is just about tea time and we are having, poppadoms, chicken, salad, rice, and a tomato and onion thing, it looks yummy.
A couple of weeks ago we saw some people from England (you all know who it is just for safety) because they came over for a wedding and they booked into a hotel in Christchurch so we went to visit them i was sooo excited and it was soooooooo good, im so happy we saw someone, cant wait till more people come over and visit.
Im thinking about my Birthday Party and Birthday List, maybe i went a bit too expensive on the list, Ipod touch, sky box, dvd player............lol (laugh out loud)!
Well we all good and feeling new and fresh.........well let me rephrase that i have no idea wether everyone is new and fresh but they all good, I, in that matter, as sticky like a toffee apple, hot like a baked potato but apart from that as healthy as a horse lol (laugh out loud) im good thanks, hope you guys are too!
Must go tea time and i think this is long enough, lol (laugh out loud)
Bye xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Thursday 5 March 2009
Okains Bay
On our recent trip to Old Chorlton Hall we stopped off at Okains Bay, which was a couple of km's around the headland, down an unsealed road. Having just cleaned the car the day before, the once sparkling Fiesta looked as though it had been on a trip to the jungle, but the beacj was fantastic and the kids really enjoyed themselves. Pics of the kids are in the family album. More views from the area can be seen in the Banks Peninsula Views Album
Tuesday 3 March 2009
Queen Victoria
The Queen Victoria found its way to Lyttelton a week or so ago. We went along to see her in the knowledge that Shaun and Jane would be aboard later in the year, having a trip in "the med".
She is quite a big ship and dwarfed the containers that were unloading further up the wharf. Some pictures are in the Port of Lyttelton Albums and there is also some video too
Sunday 1 March 2009
So much to do
We've had such a lot on over the last few weeks, that I've not been able to keep up on the blog. I was hoping to use today to catch up as this weekend was scheduled for rain, but alas the sun is out again (lol) so we have a date with the "summer festival of relaxing weekends" in the Botanical Gardens. Nicki has a tenuous link to one of todays musical performers, so we'll see how she does....and I'll tell you all about it in 4 or 5 weeks time - lol :)
Our first UK visitors
Last week we had our first visitors from the UK. Chris and Gloria had a couple of weeks on a whirlwind tour of New Zealand, and had roughly an 8 hour stop over in Christchurch (primarily to sleep I hasten to add!) Forutnately, we were able to meet up and join them for "room service".
A couple of pics have made it through to the "new" family album. I hope you guys enjoyed the rest of your tour!
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