Arrivated At 20:20 at the motel after a full day traveling with lots of stops on the way. ate in the village and backmto motel room. This day we were up and breakfast in the room then off exploring the town and Kiwi Centre. There seemed to be one Kiwi in the viewing area where we spent much time watching the Kiwimright by the window feeding on a log. 70,000 left in the old from milllions.  Centre was fun but looked like it needed a bit of love and attention, ...

A fantastic exciting day, next stage of our holiday. All 5 of us left Pegasus with 2 full cars ready for any weather that hit us and for our trips and cruises booked. We left in hot sun heading for Arthur's Pass through towns of Sheffield and Springfield. The journey through the Canterbury plains heading towards the mountain ranges filled us with excitement. We soon reached Castle Hill with a largish car park off S73. We walked up the short path to the large ...

Today was the day Rob's parents flew home with a stop in Australia for a few hours before next flight. Jane and Dave in fact saw 2 New Years Eve's on their journey home.   Been great spending couple of days with the getting to know our extended family. Russ and I let left Bec and Rob sleeping after their early hour visit to airport and walked down to Pegasus lake and through the woodland to the beach. It is a well.thought out area with a community fee...

Second leg of flight from U.K. Went quick, all 10 hrs of it. Such a special time coming through that arrival,door with Becky and Rob waiting for us. So excited to be here in their first home together. Now we are here it really doesn't seem 12 months at all. rob bless him filmed us arriving, well had to wait 11 mins doing a Facebook live! We had to,have our walking boots inspected!  Seeing them both for the first time in almost 12 months is just amazing, ca...

Managed to stay awake yesterday other than 30 min nap which has worked well as slept whole night through. Awake to blue skies to a quiet household. Rob mum and dad sleeping and Bec, Rob and Tom camping down in the lounge.