I’m mustering up the courage to attempt blogging about our trip to New Zealand. It’s taken forever to sort through thousands of photos and create some sort of order! There’s just too much to write about for one post, so I’ll break it up a bit to give us all a breather!!!
We were blessed with 4 weeks of utter blissful, relaxing and fun-filled days. Now that we are home, we are all pining to go back. It’s always nice to be back amongst your own things, but we could easily have stayed for another couple of weeks! The best part – Jaron and I had a bedroom downstairs away from the main living areas of the house and the kids were upstairs with my in-laws and sister-in-law…most mornings we would roll out of bed after 9am to find the kids fed, dressed, beds made and happily playing and we didn’t even have to do a thing 🙂 Simple things like that make for a perfect holiday for parents, right?!
So, the holiday started with leaving sunny, blue skies in Tasmania.
The kids were sooooo excited to get going and were amazing little travellers. There was a lot of waiting at the airport in Melbourne and then a 4 hour flight to NZ, but they did a great job and were still chirpy when we arrived at midnight!! We flew a combination of Jetstar and Air New Zealand and if we did it again, would definitley fly Air New Zealand (or Qantas) for the longer flights. We arrived to rain, rain and more rain – in fact, it rained pretty much our whole trip! But that didn’t stop us from having lots of fun!!
There was no messing around when we first arrived, the next day we headed out to our very first Polkadots concert! These guys are great – if you haven’t heard of them, I guess they could be likened to a Kiwi version of The Wiggles.
Our little sister, Ashleigh is a Polkadots girl – she is a pro dancer and started out back-up dancing for the Polkadots and now is there fill-in when one of the main girls have babies or other business to take care of. Three cool things about the Polkadots… 1. They are all young Mums so know exactly what kids want, 2. Their messages are all about keeping healthy, and 3. They are all members of our Church and have great values, in fact, you can watch a cool video about pink Polkadot Dionne here.
We were especially lucky that Aunty Ash is filling in for one of the Polkadots at the moment and could see her in full action – she was great and the kids are massive fans now!
Right, that’s all for tonight! I’ll be back soon with PART 2 of our trip (promise this won’t go on forever…the quantity of photos we took decreased as the trip went on!)
xxx
