Posted in Holidays on June 3rd, 2010 4 Comments »
Where can you see a wonderful collection of crystals, feed animals, ride a pony and go on a roller-coaster all at the same place?
Crystal Mountain of course!
We walked into a crystal shop to rival all others and the girls, who both collect gem stones (future geologists perhaps or treasure hunters?), were in their element. [...]
Posted in Holidays, Life in action! Videos: YouTube on June 1st, 2010 3 Comments »
On the first day of winter, with heavy rain pelting down, we drove to Snow Planet; where the outdoor weather bears no influence on the conditions indoors. We paid our money and entered a snow filled fun zone built into the side of a hill. The temperature was -4 degrees centigrade. Brrrrr!
After [...]
Posted in Holidays on May 29th, 2010 1 Comment »
Our arrival at Auckland Airport on Saturday was met by a hopeful rainbow in the sky. We’d left behind a week of wintery rain and wind and were hoping for slightly warmer temperatures in Auckland. We knew that rain was still likely, but rain is a lot more bearable when it’s not being [...]
Posted in Holidays, School hols on February 7th, 2010 2 Comments »
were extremely wet! Our hopes of visiting Riversdale Beach were completely washed away when the rain set in on Sunday morning and didn’t stop till midday Monday.
Thankfully, Masterton has a brilliant swimming pool, complete with hydro-slide and lazy river (and a nice spa pool for the adults) so we soaked up the water in [...]
Posted in Holidays, School hols on February 2nd, 2010 4 Comments »
lies the sweeping rural beauty of the Wairarapa.
We left on Friday in the most glorious sunshine. Our destination Poplar Cottage on the historic 19th Century Tinui Station, on the Castlepoint Road from Masterton.
Enroute we stopped at Kaitoke Regional Park to stretch our legs, test out the swing bridge and watch numerous folk bravely diving in [...]
Posted in Holidays on October 7th, 2009 4 Comments »
‘I’m sad Mummy,’ said Sophie as she hugged her favourite bear and waved bye bye to Wellington. Charli, meanwhile, was focused on drawing a dolphin and was richly rewarded with the sighting of dolphins and orca as we entered the Marlborough Sounds. The crossing to Picton, on Sunday 27 September, was thankfully very [...]
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