August Adventures

Hello everyone, apologies for the long delay in posting.  We are still alive here at the bottom of the world! We are now in the second half of winter, with temperatures around 8-10 degrees in the day and slowly climbing.  We usually get a couple days of wind and rain and then a gorgeous day of sun and calm.

Earlier in July, Amy's parents visited and we traveled North to where the weather is warmer.

Jonny surfing in the Tasman Sea:

Te Matua Ngahere - widest tree in New Zealand (diameter = 5.2m) - around 2000 years old:

The kids fly-fished for some rainbow trout with the help of the masters.

From the top of Mt Aubrey

We are now back at school, learning lots of tunes at school:

Camille has been busy with excessive rainbow loom creations - these rubber bands really took off here this year.  She has also been busy with some awesome Fimo:

Caleb is more into  large scale construction.  After cheering on the Spurs to the NBA Championship, he declared he wanted to be Tim Duncan and constructed this basketball net with a broken bucket.

Following in the footsteps of his Canadian forbearers I suppose: