Back from Holidays
Posted on January 9, 2005
Filed Under Family, Travel |
We’re back in Melbourne after a couple of weeks over Christmas/New Year back home in New Zealand…absolutely fabulous.
We had Christmas with the Coxhead family, which was the first time we’d all been together in who knows how long…particularly special after a difficult year, and because Flynn got to meet his Grandfather, Aunt Abby, Aunt Katie, Uncle Sam, and his big cousins Harry and Oscar.
Christmas was in the sunny Bay of Islands. The weather wasn’t great, but we did get the boat out and had a couple of nice days…got some pix which will be posted shortly. The BOI is a very cool place.
We had New Years eve in Auckland, before shooting down to Raetihi to see the in-laws…Raetihi is one of those places which just seems to run on a different timescale to the rest of the world. Very relaxing and I even got up the mountain for some snowboarding! Very bizzarre when you consider New Zealand is in the middle of ’summer’. Had a blue bird day on the hill riding an old board which has been sitting in the garage for literally 10 years…and it worked just fine. Just goes to show how much board design hasn’t really changed in that time.
Anywho, back in the office as of today…and I’ll have more news about that shortly.