June...no it can't be!

So much has happened in the past couple of months that I fail to remember most of it. A notable moment includes the circus which I promised Alice I'd mention. This was so bad that it turned into somewhat of an amusingly fun time. It started with the ring leader dude yelling at his partner in which she swore back at him and then he went on to tell us for around 10 min. about Auckland zoo and how much he dislikes them. Then there was the poor autistic boy (again the ring leader had to tell us this over and over again). His attempt at juggling for us wasnt the best. You couldn't blame him as he only started with the circus last november, really I would be much worse. But did they really need to make him dress up as a clown and juggle for us all over again? If that wasn't enough he then came out so the ring leader could whip him with his whip! Ooo and they also had a deformed miniature pony and the elephant that looked like it was very depressed for both animals I could have almost had a lil cry. The highlight was the poodle dogs, they were very cute.... but really the highlight? hmmm.

Went with Alice to Good Charlotte. They were great. I was amazed at what a variety of different people they attracted, I was glad because to tell you the truth I was a little scared that I could have turned into an emo kid from group peer pressure but that didnt happen.

Also have been down to Taupo to watch Andy race his BMW. Had a nice dinner and a few drinks. Took us around 6 hours to get home but I got to have a look at my future life in Mangakino (spelling?)......Yay its going to be fun!!

I'm having 2 weeks holidays! MmMmm been a while. Spent the first week with Paul up in the bay of islands and spending this week at home. Have a look at his blog for what we did up there.

I can't wait for..... Chrystals dress up party, Linda to come back to visit auckalnd, the beauty expo and Alice to update her blog!! Following is some pics from the last couple of months.

Getting ready for the hole in the rock boat ride.

Elephant at the circus

Paul @ 90 mile beach

Exiting the hole in the rock- bay of islands

Me at the falls in taupo

Paul looking at what used to be bush at the lake he loved to go camping at

My family having mothers day for my grandma

Me at 90 mile beach

Easter Break

So we are now halfway through the long Easter weekend. On Friday we went to Wenderholm Regional Park to go on a 30min buggy and beach shoe friendly walk. One hour later when we were going up a never ending very steep hill I started to wonder if we took the correct track. Two hours later, Paul showed me that yes, there is a difference between the colours orange and red....1 and a half hours to be exact, and a very large hill!

Today we went with Andy and Alice to the Easter show. Looked at some farm animals and went on a very scary Ferris wheel ride. I swear it was going double the speed a Ferris wheel should go. After the Easter show we met up with Edward to have dinner and watch Black Sheep at the movies.

Giant pumpkin

Old Photos

So I was looking through all of my photos and came across these.

Lantern Festival- Last year

Paul with my Casey, about 3 years ago at my old flats flat warming.

Jazz festival, last year.

My lil bro with Chrystals lil sis. 3 years ago.

At Groove in the Park 3 1/2 years ago.

Before deep hard n funky

Me and Rach

Cute lil alice.

Scary short hair

Wood Hill

Having weekends off from work is great! The weekend got off to a good start on Friday when I had Linda's leaving drinks. Sad to see her leave work as she is lots of fun but great to see the girls out of the normal work setting. After that we went to Aaron birthday party. He works with Paul and had hired out a bar in town for the night.

Sunday we woke early and myself, Paul and Matt set off to meet Alice and Andy for our biking fun. Even with the rain (sunshine dust, as Paul would say) we were all enthused about the day ahead. Andy looked impressive in his special fluro bike clothing. Alice hadn't ridden a bike in years and didn't quite understand what mountain biking entailed. She ended up in the bush and had a wee cry at one point. She did well tho as the boys did take us on a long and steep track. And I was proud of her when she said that she would even try it again! It was a good day and at least we can say that we have all done our exercise for the month!

Oooo also have a look at Alice's blog for pics of the boys on the vertical bungee in town.

The Zoo

Yay the zoo! Alice was prepared by wearing her pony thermal, I considered wearing mine but was scared by the possible heat....lucky for me as it was such a warm sunny day. If you haven't been to the zoo lately you should go. They have upgraded it a lot since I last went, its great!

Andy and Alice with the very friendly bird

We were going to feed the giraffe but all the kiddies scared him away!

More Camping

This camping trip has to have been one of the more hilarious trips that I have been on. Boys dressed as girls.....not overly surprising as this isn't the first time I have had the pleasure of experiencing this amongst Paul's group of male friends. Surprise could be one word to describe the reaction we got from the other campers! The water despite how cold it looked was so so warm, and the surf so so fun. Overall it was a good weekend and I think we all needed a break from everyday life. Oh and sorry to all the boys I really did feel bad about putting the photos up, but really how could I not have? They are just too GOOD!

All so beautiful!

Lantern Festival

So I went along to this years lantern festival as I do every year. It may not have been quiet as entertaining as last year but it was still lots of fun. The boys had a great time with all the food, mainly meat on sticks so not so great for myself and Alice!! We had a quick hello from Chrystal, Mike, Rachel, Paul and Casey which is always great. Bright lights never seem to get boring!

Piggy

Mike, Chrystal and Alice

mMMmmm food

Andy, Alice, Me and Paul

Paul, Me and Pandas

Cock-a-doodle-do