Boxing Day and it's sunny (and we weren't hallucinating!) Beach day ahoy! Kiwi hero Bear grylls woke me up with bear getting all cold in the snow, silly boy. But outside sun was shining so we packed lunch and scooted off to the car park to get our boards for sun and surf. Rob's 10 foot board proved interesting to carry but we reused annette's handy wetsuit backpack trick to carry things down. It was hot on the beach but we had wised up and had a bottle of 30 su...

Christmas day! After a lovely lay in we got up for elf on the tv and a festive brekkie of toast and hot choc. Sun not yet out, I rang mum and spoke to the family before packing lunch and setting off for the mount. On the beachfront it was buzzing And the stubborn kiwis were having family bbq's in the wind! We strolled up the front and although breezy it was warm as we tackled the faster but more hard core route to the top. The bungee effect helped me up all th...

Move day! Off to the north island and sad to leave queenstown following such a good week. We packed up and arrived at queenstwon airport via the lovely town of frankton and the bp garage we passed many times that week ready to fly to Auckland. The jet air flight was ready and waiting and queenstown was a lovely scenic airport. Unlike Auckland! Grey, rainy and not very pretty we were starting to wonder why we moved! Finding the car park rental place took rathe...