52 days to go......

We've been marking the days off the calendar as we count down to our trip to the States.  Just 52 days to go now, wow!!  So much has been going on around here, over the last few weeks, and yes, it's still raining!  Craig has taken a job in Sydney, he is super excited, and flies out on the 17th of August.  We won't join him until after our trip, it's going to be tough on all of us, but will let him get settled at the new job.  

Hunter and Mackenzie both started swimming lessons last week.  They did so great, Hunter goes Tuesdays after school, and Mackenzie goes on a Saturday morning.

And of course, an update on petrol prices, they've actually come down 3 times in the past week, for the first time in 5 months, so we're back to $2.06 a litre.

And the beat goes on.....

The Kids went back to school yesterday, and life is getting back to normal.  I'm trying to get back into the routine and as you can imagine, it is super quiet around here, luckily I still have Kingy Bing to keep me entertained.  The break from school went quickly. We had fun in the sun the first week, managed to visit the beach, and the park, even took a trip to the botanical gardens with my coffee group and the kids got to run around and feed the ducks.

The 2nd week of the holidays went well.  Hunter went to a Rugby camp for 3 mornings with his buddy William. Unfortunately the rain returned, so it limited our activities a little.

League was rained out on Saturday, so we made a spur of the moment decision to go to snowplanet, an indoor snowdome.  You can check it out at  www.snowplanet.co.nz.  It's a really neat set up, with a restaurant at the bottom of the mountain with a huge window facing the snow, so I sat in there with Kenzie and Kingston, and some hot chocolate (mmm yummy) while Craig and Hunter took to the slope.  It was very cool to watch them, and Hunter was awesome for his first time on skis, way better than I was my first time!  I didn't get any pictures unfortunately, but he really enjoyed it.  William had a sleepover that night, and on Sunday we took the kids to the Museum, to see the new Secrets exhibit, it was pretty interesting, and all the kids, especially Kingston loved it. 

It's July already!

Wow, so it's july already, time to update what's going on in New Zealand.

We had our friends, Todd and Michelle,  visit from Detroit last week. It was really good having them here, and their little girl Maekirra is just a few months older than Kingston, and they were too cute together.

The rain has finally stopped.  I feel like it's been raining forever, and today the sky was bright and blue and the sun was shining. The kids are on holidays at the moment, it's their winter break.  Now you see why I want the good weather to stick around.  Hunter went on a trip today,  to the sky tower with the YMCA holiday Programme, he had a great time, he has been wanting to go since he was at preschool, when he was convinced he was going to marry his little girlfriend Dana up there.  

Craig is in Sydney at the moment, checking out some jobs and hopefully deciding if we'll make the move across the ditch.

Petrol prices went up again today! $2.18 a litre!!! It's madness I tell ya!