Karitane

A break to Karitane was the order of the day for me birfdee!

The home place of Sir Truby King the founder of Plunket. About 1.45 South form here and 25 mins from Dunedin.

A surprisingly easy drive down with a sleepy girl and wide awake boy who sang 'off to Wiggle Bay' on the way down. We arrived at dusk and quickly got the ourselves settled with a toasty fire!

The next day we went into Dunedin to go to the Museum. We

drove down the high Street and were amazed to see lots of people and shops! Dunedin is a University town so there are plenty of unicyclists and jeans with holes, students make up 20% of the population. We found somewhere to park and took W to the Museum that has a discovery zone with lots of hands on science stuff. His reaction to the place at first was a bit of bewilderment and was cautious when pressing buttons and touching things, this soon turn into a little boy taking the lead, pointing where he wanted to go and seeing what was next.

There was a massive Eden Project style room with waterfalls and plants that was a massive home for butterflies, fish and turtles. Again W was in his element and ran in circles under the waterfall just stopping to point at turtles before running under the waterfall again. This came to a stop at we found it too hot and carried him out.

We found this special pearl in a giant clam!

The accommodation was unique. They had gone to the trouble of having a nautical theme and continued this throughout the house -with everything! There was a lifetimes collection there. We spent time on Sunday morning roaming around the beach and harbour in Karitane and then drinking tea on the deck back at the bach. It was a really beautiful spot. The drive home was good and then to top it off it had been pissing down in Timaru all weekend. Result.

Brown Eyes!

She's gone to the darkside. She started well with blue eyes but now they've changed to brown. There's only W and I left defending the blue realm.

All has been good with the wee one she smiles, laughs and goos! a very ticklish girl too. Such a delight as she has been brought into a busy, investigative and noisy world of W. We find his world 100 miles an hour but she seems manage easily. I wonder what she will become?

W has been busy. Picked him up from daycare today and he was dressed as a policeman. The teacher said that he had had it on after 5 minutes of being there.

W has been going through a stage of saying 'sore' for the whole of the day when he has a 'bang'. More recently he puts closure on the incident with 'poor me'.

May weather has been much better than last year. Some hard frosts but between 15-20 in the day. The fog came in this evening - couldn't see the bottom of the garden.

Had a trauma with the moped last Friday. Puncture! Had to get the neighbour round to loosen the bolt, then remove the exhaust and put the tyre back. Bit embarrassing as it was that cross dressing fella.

Not like changing a puncture on my pedal bike.