monday

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auckland anniversary day today so we all went in to auckland to anniversarise

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first stop was the dragon boat racing where davina’s friend was racing

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we continued to walk round the waterfront, checking out where the Laneway festival is this year

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we stopped for ice-creams and buskers

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eventually we met up with Jane who had been doing school preparations in the morning and had some food at a maori exhibition

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after having a look at my photos in the exhibition we went separate ways with esther, reuben and i battling on against the summer heat to have some fun in the port of auckland open day

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esther is still interested in working in NZ Customers so was delighted they had a stall she could talk to them and try on some of their equipment

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we then went on a helicopter ride (i’ll post some more pictures of them when i’ve had a time to edit them, but here’s a couple of photos of the Laneway festival for now)

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then we played some mini golf

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before getting the bus back home we had a quick look round the town so Reuben could have a look at some of the buildings

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cuz chris and family are heading to rotorua the next couple of days then off to the South Island so we won’t see them for a while

and everyone here is back to school tomorrow

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