auckland philharmonia orchestra

i managed to get us 4 tickets to see a mini-concert by the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra.  They were a freebie as thanks for subscribing to have the NZ Herald newspaper delivered to the door.  we applied and got some

it was a great nearly two hours of music with lots of background info on the music and how it was being played.  we all loved it.  the audience was mostly old people but that was funny as well.  (the picture at the top was just after we’d been let in to the Town Hall which is why it looks so empty both on and off the stage.

The town hall also has some famous toilets which are nice and Victorian.  just like the ones we visited in Scotland last UK summer.

I’ll now hand over to jane who will tell you about school camp.  The pictures below were taken from the window of a law firm which i visited at lunchtime for a talk.  note the rather large boat in the harbour parked up by the fuel storage area (rather than the wharf for some reason – possibly because it’s too big to fit in the proper boat parking area)

I spent the morning at camp again. I was on orienteering for the 3rd time and the on the “Scream Machine”. This is where you are clipped to a rope which is suspended from the ceiling and there is another rope attached, which a dad whirls round at high speed, which makes you swing round at high speed and scream. Actually, I was just crowd control for this one, which was quite easy as the children were so tired by then. Esther really enjoyed camp and so did I.