walk in the wilderness

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jane and i woke up in the wrong place this morning having slept in the spare bedroom.  esther’s going to use it tonight and jane and i are back to our usual quarters.

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anyway, after church we did a bit of tidying about and had lunch

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then we decided to go for a walk with the girls taking their cycles

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it turned in to a bit of an off road adventure

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but we found some cool little tracks some of which we’ll explore further without bikes

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we also did a few geocaches including this one hidden in the flax

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our walk also took us by the north harbour stadium which is quite close to where we live.  you can hear cheers and singing (and a single vuvuzela last night) when there’s a match on.

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today it was ruby and last night the national football team were playing.  we went to neither unfortunately.

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but it was nice to find some hidden corners of our ‘village’ which is now mini town size

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here’s the local senior school which is near where we live

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we had an explore round that too and it looked quite funky from behind

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then this evening we had the andersons round for a lovely colonial roast beef sunday dinner cooked up by the lovely jane (my wife)

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here’s our exploring walk.  we live in the blob near the bottom left.  the walk was about 7.5km if you are interested fact fans.  (the stadium is the white semi circle middlish right, and the waterfall at the top of the picture is near the end of the detour top left.

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we didn’t watch the Piano last night as we were too tired so i can’t review that for you i’m afraid.

back to school for the girls tomorrow.  life is about to get real busy again !