Muriwai

Today we went to Muriwai, a west coast beach very popular with surfers.  There is also a gannet colony there, but since we had Bess we didn’t venture up the cliff face to visit it.  We did have lunch at the cafe, which was lovely, and had a good climbing tree for Madeleine to stretch her legs, and even Lucia had a go at climbing it too. I didn’t take the camera, so the photos below are from my phone and not great quality, but you get the idea. Lulu loves running from waves. Read more of this post

Ponsonby Market Day

This week its felt like summer is definitely coming to an end, with some crisp autumn days and nights creeping in.  But today was lovely, and we went along to the Ponsonby Market Day.  Along with the balloons, sausage sizzles, bands, ice-creams, and more designer dogs than Bess could sniff in a lifetime, there was the obligatory face painting.  Nothing satisfies our girls more than face painting, its the cherry on the top of a good day out.

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Cupcakes!

Ahh, the weekend.  How we love the weekend.  Sleeping in, visiting parks, having a lazy coffee at a cafe and reading the paper.  Baking and icing.  Thats pretty much today in our household.  Yum yum.

Wellington the other weekend

So, we went to Wellington a couple of weekends ago, and I’ve not got round to blogging about it until now.  It was an absolutely vintage Wellington weekend – day one, the weather was perfect, the entertainment was plentiful and free, and we all had an amazing time.  Day two, it was cold and windy and we scampered onto the plane and back to Auckland post haste.

We went to Wellington on some cheap and cheerful airfares, and co-incidentally the International Arts Festival started the same weekend.  The Dragon Boating competition was also on, there was a lot of hype down at the waterfront for some rugby game being held in Wellington, and the Fringe Festival was on too.

The girls got to bounce around on a bouncy castle rugby field (see pic below), Read more of this post