School Hols

Three quarters of the way through and we have been seriously busy bees. Joe had daily swimming lessons during week 1 and has come on leaps and bounds. He can now swim several strokes AND BREATHE!!!!!. Without breathing he is up to about 10 metres and he is very proud of himself for graduating 3 classes in the space of 10 weeks. We then had another hour or so swimming in the leisure pool with Ben. He throws himself into the water and is now thrilled by the wave machine. They are a right pair of water babies!

We visited Orana Wildlife park with a bunch of Ben's friends. Below is Annissa and Josh with Ben and Joe. The children adored the animals, but the highlight for the small ones was definitely the safari train pulled by a big blue tractor!


We rode the tram in the city and took part in their treasure hunt accompanied by Joe's friend Josh. Tomorrow we meet up again at The Groynes (a local park/reserve) to try and wear them out on their bikes.

Today was a trip to Willowbank. The boys enjoyed hand feeding some Wallabies

and they laughed like mad as the Kea tried to land on their heads. the picture shows (little) Josh, Ben , Joe, Kelly and Quinn + hungry inquisitive Kea!

Matt took a couple of days off and knuckled down to some redecorating and moving of furniture. We may be selling up and moving to the country? Will keep you posted.