The boys have been on holdiay from school for the last two weeks, so Ali's been busy arranging days out and meeting up with friends. The boys had a sleep over last weekend and we then went to the Christchurch model railway exhibition, which was brilliant and included slot car dragster racing, which Matt won (Josh having taken the honours in the Scalextric racing.
On the middle Sunday of the holiday we revisited Ilam Baptist Church and are keen to get involved there. It's very friendly and reminds us of G2 (our church in York that was part of St Michael-le-Belfrey) in many ways.
I had a couple of days in Auckland last week with work, which gave me chance to explore the 'big city' in the evening. In typical fashion, I escaped the bright lights and took a ferry out to Waiheke Island in the gulf for the evening.
This weekend we headed up to Nelson at the top of the South Island to visit friends, Jo and Andrew. We'd planned to go there via Lewis Pass (894m), but with snow forecast down to 200m we took the coast road via Kaikora and Blenheim. The weather was atrocious as we drove through alternating snow and lashing rain. But at least it gave us chance to see the seals just north of Kaikora as we huddled in the car eating our pies (a great NZ institution).
Fortunately the weather on Saturday and Sunday was brilliant and so we spent Saturday morning at the arts & crafts market in Nelson and the afternoon on the beach at Rabbit Island. A leisurely Sunday morning at the 'hands on' aquarium in Mapua was followed by a stunning drive home that included a quick snow ball fight at the summit of Lewis Pass.
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