The Kids have Landed...

The family arrived this week safe and sound with 13 bags totalling 400 pounds!  First job was to hit the beach in Titahi Bay.  Here they are trying to trap the water in their castle:

Here is the wee fellow waiting for the tide to come in:

And here is our daughter hard at work with the seaweed.  She is trying to build a wall of seaweed to protect her castle:

 They have also been enjoying running wild in the backyard with the chicken, jumping on the trampoline and climbing the hills around Wellington.  Here, they are trying to make a treehouse with sticks, rocks and leaves they found behind the house.  Unfortunately, the tools are also made of wood!

In my wanders around Wellington I found this amazing community garden built on a 45 degree hill - they use old carpets to keep the soil in place along the pathways.

 And the sign on the backdoor of the ramshackle house behind the garden:

 A final view of Titahi Bay:

 So far, the kids love New Zealand and Titahi Bay.  When our daughter arrived at the airport she took off at top speed through the entrance and exclaimed: "we have escaped the disappearing farmland of Ontario, Canada!"  When the middle boy saw the trees around the airport he said: "look at the wilderness!  the green is killing it in NZ!" Our wee fellow just keeps telling everyone: we are in New Zeawand!