Saturday – tennis, volcanoes and dinner

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jane was up early with pearl to take kezia for her 6.30am swimming lesson, then a walk on a local beach

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kezia had tennis and won both her matches today in the blistering heat.  yay!

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AB and UB did some admin stuff first thing, then we drove over to watch a bit of esther’s tennis

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whilst esther and jane were tennis-ing the rest of us went up mount victoria with its metal mushrooms (air vents of the reservoir beneath)

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we had lunch down in devonport before heading up north head where we rendezvoused with jane and esther

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kezia, UD and I went to explore some tunnels but it was so hot we didn’t stay up there long

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here’s a lava bomb

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AB loves geology

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we stopped to look at Lake Pupuke and some lava flows on the way home by which time Pearl the dog had had a dip in her little paddling pool

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we then all had a dip in the pool

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here’s esther getting her hair band out of the pool

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then this evening we’ve been out to the Wine Box for a lovely meal

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here’s my emu, kangaroo and veal (i think)

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