Hannah and Quickie, the sheepdog. It has to be a universal truth world wide- dog lovers are very nice people. They have loaned Hannah a dog to work weekly with doing basic commands and an obstacle course. She will hopefully be able to train any future canine additions to our family. She goes once a week in small town North of Wellington called Upper Hutt.
Tessa, Caitlyn, Rebecca and Hannah perform their original play "Dennis and the Bullies". A the end the bullies figure out in fact they prefer music, ballet and rapping to bullying. 
this is me Tessa and caitlin doing our great finale at the end of our play.
Tessa left Caitlin middle and do you know that person on the right, hope you all do!
Chess, for all you people who hate chess out there, if a very interesting game! you need to be militarily, mentally and tactically smart. of course i must have to say i have all of those qualities and so does Katherine! ps- Daily guess- who wrote this entry???? comment on that!
A trip to Lyle Bay with Hannah's friend Laura. This bay is around a 10 min drive away and is near the airport. It is a big a great surfing beach when the conditions are right. The water is COLD. We played rugby with Hannah's flipper in the water to keep warm as we had been watching a rugby match that weekend.
Laura right, Hannah left and ME in the middle!! the whole Rugby in the water thing was pretty cool, I would tell you to try it in your nearest lake but I have gotten some pictures from Grandpa and Granma at the cottage and, well, lets just say its much warmer here then there!!!
It happens yearly and I guess all around the world that smaller teams of Rugby players (7 on the field instead of 15) play mini matches over two days. And it has become the firm tradition for everyone to dress up and have a really really good time for those two days. It was held in the Cake Tin (named so as it is a metal circular stadium) with 40 000 people all dressed up. We missed Halloween in Australia but more than made up for the costumes at the 7's.
Kate and Simon and their kids Georgina and Tessa with Rebecca at the 7's.
The dalmation (aka Rebecca) and the Hawaiian girl (aka Tessa) and Simon and Kate at the 7's at the final night. What an upset - New Zealand lost at the last second to England!
Kate and Tessa
Stilt walkers at the evening parade.
Batman having a snow cone!
Giddyup!
Light up tummy care bears
Many many many men in tights, wigs, usually with big bosoms
This young cowboy asked the NZ police if they would pretend to arrest him so his mates could take a picture...and they obliged for the camera!
"I still breastfeed"
Where's Waldo.
Hannah is Little Fur from the book series she is reading. These pink fuzzy lads adopted her for a photo which ended up making the Newspaper on line.
Many blue smurfs. We saw SOOO much body paint!
Little Fur plus the stewardess
Ghost Busters..Who ya gonna call?
I love this shot of the two nums smoking and drinking .
Just another NZ lad.
OMG!!!! you should have been there, seriously! i mean i am not kidding around when i say the whole 40,000 seats were filled up!! everyone was screaming and i told you about how NZ is crazy about rugby well NZ was in the finals and i got to go. of course, new zealand HAD to lose!
Little Fur goes to the 7's :-)
The music festival in the velodrome organized by the radio station RadioActive. We went to see the Black Seeds playing "Cool Me Down". Many people all moving to the reggae beat. And we realized that it is true that the laws of social interaction are different here...no six degrees of separation - but usually one or two. As we sat down at this huge festival we saw Kaitlyn's family Owen and Mary right beside us. Wellington has the facilities of a capital city with arts and sports and culture and infrastructure but only 250 000 people which makes everything so accessible and tight knight.