Easter Weekend Hot Air Balloons and Sunsets

Happy Easter Everyone, hope the Easter Bunny was generous to you all!!!!! Rob, Nicki Rich,Zach, Emma and I hired a Bach (pronounced Batch) better known as a Kiwi Holdiday Home on Foxton Beach. We went to the Levin Hot Air Balloon Festival, did some Boogie Boarding, Nicki and I got lots of runs in despite overindulging in wine and chocolate and we saw some gorgeous sunsets. Unfortunately the batteries ran out on my camera by Saturday!!!!!

The Reisling Rabbits Hop Round The Vines

Last Sunday the girls from work and myself dressed as the 'Reisling Rabbits' took part in the Martinborough 10km 'Round the Vines walk http://www.roundthevines.org.nz/.

Love the Bullet Holes!!!!

What no carrots!!!

Robs Mum and Dads Trip to the South Island

View from the top of the world, well Christchurch Gondola anyway:)












Rob not sure about riding a bike without the stabilisers!


















Famous old motorbike!











Lake Tekapo














The Luge Chairlift Queenstown Gondola













Rob coming down the Luge, Queenstown













View from the gondola, Queenstown














The closest we have ever come to a Kiwi!!!! We think they are a myth created for tourists!!!!













Robs Mum braving the Swingbridge













Blue Pools Haast Region













Blue Pools, Haast














Robs Mum and Dad and a cool view, Haast



























Fox Glacier

Fox Glacier

Scary one lane road/rail bridge!!!! You just have to hope nothing is coming the other way!!!!

Punakaiki West Coast

Stuffing ourselves with Fajitas at the Lone Star Restaurant Wellington on the last night.

Robs Mum and Dads Trip Part Two

Rob drove his Mum and Dad through the North Island up to Napier, a town on the East Coast which was destroyed by an earthquake in the 1920's and was totally rebuilt in the Art Deco Style, Rotorua, which is full of geothermic activity and smells like rotten eggs due to the sulphur, and to Waitomo Caves. Unfortunately I had to work!!!!

Scary Rimutaka Mountain road, the main route out of Wellington heading up to the East Coast!

Rob and his Mum after indulging in the 'Fruit of The Vines' at Te Mata Winery

Te Mata Winery

Rob and his Dad outside the National Aquarium,Napier.

Some Art Deco Architechture, Napier, shame about the modern cars!!!!!

Rob overwhelmed by the stench of Rotten Eggs at Wai-O-Tapu (Sacred Waters) Geothermal Area!

Champagne Pools

Waitomo Caves

Maori Cultural Evening

Rob Boogie boarding back in Lyall Bay, Wellington

Robs Mum and Dad's Trip to New Zealand Part One

Robs Mum and Dad have just had 3 weeks holiday with us down here on the other Sunny, but as they found out, sometimes very wet and windy, side of the world!!!!! Rob took them on a whistle-stop, no time for jet-lag, 3500 km tour of the North and South Islands!


Enjoying the sunshine at the Loaded Hog













The Hills on top of the world
















Wellington Airport from Mount Victoria, misjudge either end and you end up in the sea (I can say that now that you have been and gone safetly Jackie and Peter!!!!!)





















Jackie enjoying a glass of champagne on the 'dick'