Monday, December 14, 2009
How Red Beach got its name
The town we live in - Red Beach - got its name from the thousands, or probably millions, of red shells found on the beach there. The red shells are only on this beach!
The Great Sea Glass Hunt
Also a good place for hide and seek when the tide is out.
This is down the street from our house and we've found some really cool and random things hiding there. Including some awesome sea glass.
A proud day for Mom
At the museum of transportation and technology we got to try out the stilts. Mom was the best of all of us and since it was her first time ever to try them, she was pretty proud to dominate us all - she could walk around forever!
Saturday, December 5, 2009
Black sand beauties
The black sand was super soft and fun to play in! What you can't see in the pictures is that it also sparkles in the sunshine. The black beach is surrounded by green, green hills. It was a beautiful day!
Surfing the Tasman!
A lucky day for Kimberly and Kelsie! A surf school instructor offered us an amazingly low price to give both girls a one hour surfing lesson. We couldn't pass it up! Wet suits, boards and all were provided and they had a fabulous time out in the waves of the Tasman Sea in Raglan, New Zealand on a gorgeous black sand beach.
Friday, December 4, 2009
Skiing anyone?
This is Snow Planet. The indoor ski slope open all year, just down the street from where we live.
One of our favorite places...
This is the Whangaparaoa Library where we've spent many happy hours. It's so nice with great books, movies, reading areas,etc. It is also where we got all our e-mail until we had our own internet.
Cave exploring!
Here we are exploring a beach cave. Really it doesn't go much deeper, but there are some that do and have tons of broken shells in them. BUT, there are bugs and they don't smell too good :P
Thursday, December 3, 2009
The City of Sails
The beautiful city of Auckland as seen from the bridge heading into it from north of the harbour where we live. It's really fun to see it when all the boats are out sailing.
Definately not rubbish!
They have delicious ice cream here that is hard to resist - so we try not to resist too much! One of the favorite flavors is Hokey Pokey which is honey flavored with little bits of honeycomb in it - mmmmmmmmm!
An Oompa Loompa house?
Really awesome looking onion house built on a tree. We heard it was built for a commercial and now is used for privately booked special
occasions. Zach says maybe Oompa Loompas live in it.
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