Trip to Raglan

We made this little trip to Raglan in October. The town had an old wooden jetty bridge. It also had nice beach. We decided to have fish & chips for lunch.



Noel found himself this chip longer than his face.

There's a walkway around the reserve thingie and quite a few people fish there.
Noel with his big mouth told me, "Mum, there's no fish here, why do they fish here?"
Me super embarrassed, quickly dragged him away and ask him to keep quiet.

We tried to look for the wooden jetty only to find out they had it replaced with the concrete one. It was a lot less charming than the old one.

Next we headed to the beach. It was a surf beach. Heaps of surfers in their wetsuits and surfboards. The boys were happy playing with the black sand.

Smurfed

Noel enjoyed the movie. Not quite sure about Abel.

Tree climber

While Noel is having photos taken by jake, me and abel were stuck in some gondwana land. We somehow got split in part of the garden, and Abel wanted to touch every single pebbles on the ground, so i was starting to get real annoyed and had to take the long winded way to get back to the general area of the garden.

Botanics Garden

We had a quick bite before exploring the botanics garden in October.

They had this sculpture garden thingie.

The boys found a small hut and rested for a bit before wandering further into the garden.

Playtime

Skills developed : Sharing things

We bought this Diego playset for Noel's 2nd Christmas. It sat sadly in the toybox not getting any attention whatsoever. So I stored it away in my toy storage. This spring, I took them out and the reaction was very different. I heard him making conversations, reenacting the scenes he watched from the Diego DVD.

Auckland Museum

笑一笑。。。

做鬼脸。。。

Blooms everywhere

The following shots are taken in the big glasshouse. The colours can lift anyone's mood. A week later, we went back but all the display had been changed.

Auckland Domain

The Auckland Domain in Spring '11. They had a display of tulips (with the windmill in the background)

Wedding pictorial 2

哎呀，老婆大人！我再也不敢了hehe

Location: Auckland Museum and Auckland Domains

Wedding pictorials

Pic with robbie the photographer

with Candy their chauffeur of the day

Location: Auckland Botanics Garden

Courtyard

Managed to find a picture of the courtyard after it was decorated. Most of the decor work here is done by jake's uncles.

Cutting of the cake followed by short speeches from newlywed.

Newlyweds - All smiles

Group shot