Continuing the last post!

Blenheim is a town over in the south island, it's only a 30 minute flight from the local airfield. It's sooo much easier than fighting the traffic into Wellington to go from there - it can take 2hrs to drive to Wellington airport sometimes. Of course the planes from here are a lot smaller than Air New Zealand's ones, but I love small planes!

If you click on the photos in the previous post they go full size. Here's another of the Cook Strait ferry just leaving the Marlborough Sounds.

Continuing the last post!

Blenheim is a town over in the south island, it's only a 30 minute flight from the local airfield. It's sooo much easier than fighting the traffic into Wellington to go from there - it can take 2hrs to drive to Wellington airport sometimes. Of course the planes from here are a lot smaller than Air New Zealand's ones, but I love small planes!

If you click on the photos in the previous post they go full size. Here's another of the Cook Strait ferry just leaving the Marlborough Sounds.

Autumn

Couple of photos taken from my new digital camera when I was away earlier this month. The first one is some gerberas at the Farmers Market in Blenheim and the second is a view just after takeoff.

Crafty grandma

Sorry these are pxts off my phone. I went to see Anahera and Kaya today and we decorated T shirts with fabric paint. Here are their efforts. Kaya's is the dolphims and Anahera's the teddy.

Still Summer

Since the beginning of February we've had the most wonderful weather. In fact they've declared a drought where we are, although it's not too bad. It's autumn now and it's still sunny and warm most of the time. Daylight saving finishes not this weekend but next- sigh. I will so miss the longer evenings.
I've bought a digital camera and as soon as I figure out how to upload the photos to the computer I'll post some.
I went away last weekend, totally spur of the moment, it was wonderful. I flew down in a little plane (which by now you know I love doing!) to Blenheim and the guy on the plane organised the shuttle driver and the shuttle driver found me somewhere to stay so it all worked out beautifully :-)). I stayed in a bed and breakfast place. On the Sunday (the weather was sooo hot and sunny and fine) I walked everywhere (no buses there on a Sunday) and went to the Farmers Market, Brayshaw Pioneer Park, Riverside Railway, and Omaka Heritage Aviation Park. I'm sure you've heard of Peter Jackson the director, the museum is his brainchild and he owns most of the exhibited planes.
My job is keeping me busy, I'm writing a big contract for the boss, never done anything like that before!
Kathryn is still living with her new man and Tahi still has the girls.