christmas day

This is Uncle Ank on Christmas morning. Pud and Ank came for breakfast. Yummy pancakes and fruit. It was then pressie opening time!!

Oooooooo......what did puddy get???

Oooooooo........ what did Scarlett get from uncle ank?? It was a cool blow up pool! I love the paper!

A few christmas decorations...... nutcrackers on the T.V.

This is our christmas tree. We went with a purple, green and silver theme this year. I would really like a nice bushy tree but that's way down the list of things I want.

Ollie is having a lovely time playing with the shopping bag. We needed some carrots for the reindeer's!!

We put some milk and malteasers out for santa and a carrot for the reindeers on christmas eve and look..... in the morning it was gone. Scarlett's not sure what happened! She didn't even notice the presents!!!!.........

......until I pointed them out!

muse

Before I start telling you about our amazing trip a few things happened before we left. We had a whirlwind November. As well as Essie's wedding and moving, Nick and I went to not one but two concerts. Since being married we havn't been able to afford to do much so this was pretty exciting. We went to the THE KILLERS.... who were awesome! and MUSE.... who were even better!! They honestly sounded brilliant! I have better pics on my phone but I don't know how to get them onto the computer! Anyway drove from Franz Josef Glacier to Christchurch today and leave on Saturday night. We have some Christmas shopping planned tomorrow and Saturday before we head home. I have had a wonderful time but am ready to sleep in my own bed. Hope its not too hot back home!!

hobbiton

This is just a taste of what we have seen since being in New Zealand. We are having such a wonderful time. We spent 8 days in Auckland. We drove down to Hamilton to visit Hobbiton where part of 'Lord of the Rings' was filmed. We are now in Christchurch and are about to head off to Mt Cook tomorrow morning. We are staying at a few different places around the South Island before coming back here and flying home on the 22nd. I can't wait to post some more of our pics. I think we have already taken about 500!!!!