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jane had a haircut.  i had a ridiculously busy day at work.  the girls had school and swimming and jane went to he gym.  jane and i watched that Margaret Thatcher film this evening but didn’t enjoy it as much as we thought we might.

that’s all.

Up on the gondolas again for us, as the girls and I were going to go down the mountain on zip wires. Eeek.

Here are our guides Molly and Brad.

3 hours later here we are at the bottom. It was pretty cold on the mountain. Dave walked down. In the afternoon we took a drive Glenorchy at the top of the lake.

Loverleee.

We started the day with a slap up breakfast by the lake,

followed by a spot of skimming.

Then we went for a lovely boat ride on the historic steamship TSS Earnslaw.

TSS Earnslaw is believed to be the only coal-fired passenger-carrying vessel still operating in the southern hemisphere.

We went across Lake Wakatipu to Walter Peak High Country Farm on the western shores and back.

 

In the afternoon I hit the shops and Dave and the girls discovered frisbee golf!

it’s strange going back to work on a Thursday after a public holiday on a Wednesday. 

i had a really busy day with solid meetings between 9 and 2.30pm.  i felt a bit weird towards 2pm as i hadn’t eaten but then i ate and all was well.

jane seems to have had lots of coffee and spending time with her chums

 

esther went to a talk at school by the ‘second biggest record breaker of the decade: 2000-2009’.  what a claim to fame!

this evening jane and i had music practice.

today’s pictures are of a military boat parked up in the middle of auckland.  there’s was no one around so i enjoyed taking some pictures without any hassle or worry from security people etc!

Today we drove over the hills to Wanaka.

This was the only civilisation on the way

This day was probably the least nice, in terms of the weather, so after an in the car picnic by the lake we headed off to Puzzling world.

There was a 3d maze and Dave and I beat the girls through it. Yes!

a great day of time with friends today as it was a public holiday (ANZAC day).  the weather has been amazing. 

this morning our friends the Dunnings came round.  it’s always great to see them and it was great to find out more about their house moving plans (as well as other chitter chatter).  

Buzz allowed himself to be interviewed by Kezia for some school homework on water.  video down below

this afternoon was various house workeries and computerisations.  And this evening Warren, Courtney and Laura came round for dinner which finished off a really lovely day.  he are the the young’uns playing wii.

here’s kezia’s interview.  no need to watch it all!

esther had some inoculations at school today first thing whilst at the same moment i was having my flu jab (and a free lolly pop).  bargain.  otherwise a really busy day for me today as i’ve got a few deadlines for Friday and tomorrow is a public holiday

jane had her morning in the church office.  this evening kezia has had swimming, jane went to the gym and i finished editing our queenstown pictures ready for jane to do the last few days of our holiday diary.

Today we went to Arrowtown. We stopped at Lake Hayes on the way. Beautiful autumn colours.

Arrowtown was a mining town. It also had some lovely trees.

We went on a nice walk.

And visited the Chinese settlement

On the way home we stopped at the Kawarau Bridge Bungy (bungee) – home to the original 43 metre Bungy Jump.

another stunning day today. low 20s. not bad.  i even saw some dolphins in the harbour from my work window in the distance (too small to photo)

busy day at work for me, but all productive stuff so that’s good

girls were back at school and seemed in good form this evening

jane went to the opticians, saw various chums and had her gym assessment (which lead to a trickier training program)

this evening we had our life group and an extra three people turned up thus nearly doubling the group size.  yay!  we’re just beginning a new series on Revelation at church which we’ll study in the life group in the week following the sunday before if you see what i mean. Study sheets here in case you want to play along at home are here

i also finally managed to upload a rather rubbish version of the podcast here

here’s a big boat i walked past on the way to work. it was called kakariki which is a good name for a boat

good bye

Day 3 was Easter day, so we went to St Peter’s Anglican Church as recommended by Fleur. Good job we got there early, it was very small and packed!

There were conkers outside

Also recommended by Fleur, we had lunch at the Halo cafe next door.

Then off to the gondola with our Flyby tickets.

Lovely views from the top and then down on the luge.

And back up on the chair-lift. Good times!

This is an underwater fish watching place by the wharf. You could pay some money for some food to be released and then fish, eels and ducks came along to eat it.