Friday, August 6, 2010

Picnic time



We spent a bit of time hanging out at the (empty) house one morning, waiting on the truck of rental furniture - this is us having our first meal here ... a picnic breakfast by the front window trying to stay cool at about 8am ...

Another morning we tried to find a playground while it was still cool enough to run about outside ... unfortunately while first finding somewhere to pickup some morning-tea and drinks to take with us the temperature rose really fast and by 11ish the metal playground equipment was too hot to touch! so we ate (some) of our picnic in the shade of the tree and then bettled back to the hotel for a swim instead!! When i say some, i'm talking about the pink bun that you can see in the photo - Bethany loved the look of it, but, so sweet she didn't want to actually eat it ... Josh's choice was more successful and the little nibble he shared was so yummy ... Ben chose a plain bread roll and from all reports very similar to a french stick from our home-town supermarket ... its the closest we've gotten to a nice (to us) bread as the bread here is very very sweet ...

Thursday, August 5, 2010

Movies!

Toy Story 3, in 3D - lots of fun!! We went for a drive while staying in the hotel one day ... looking for something inside and found the movies ...

The driving, now that was weird coming off a divided-multi laned highway (where it is easy to forget you're driving on the right-hand side of the road), and to see a big-rig coming up the two-way ramp towards you ... just repeat after me: stay to the right, stay to the right, you're in the right place on the road, stay to the right ... :-)

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

the Wiki Waka



One evening it was so hot we decided to sit outside in the courtyard of this resturant as it had neat water drizzling down over the whole area to cool it down

Just as we got there though it turned itself off as the drizzling water wasn't evaporating immediately - must have gotten too cool!

The kids menus came with wiki sticks ... Ben made a Maori waka, and Bethany made a person...

Sunday, August 1, 2010

Our first evening out...


While we are staying in the hotel waiting for the house to be ready, and our things to get here from NZ we did a lot of eating out - we did ultimately get sick of needing to head out of the hotel every day in search of food ... but, i did not miss cooking as much as i thought i might :-) ... and yes, there are a lot of drinks - its tough staying hydrated in this heat (about 30-40dC every day) ...