Recess

Well we have just had our first few days back at college after a couple of weeks away on recess. We were really looking forward to having a few days just relaxing and enjoying some time away from the training college.

However what with the weather and the fact that some of us decided that the recess was the best time to get sick it was not the most relaxing time.

We headed up to the Coromandel to visit my parents and grandmother for a few days to start with and then on to Hamilton to visit Perry's family. Then finally we headed to Auckland to visit my sister and to do the business in our storage unit getting everything ready for when we are ready to leave college for our first appointment in December and we need for our stuff stored in Auckland be moved also.

We still had a good time over the two weeks doing a fair amount of traveling and visiting East City our old church along the way.

Here are a few photos of our trip.

Emily on the Beach at Whitianga. We found lots of shells to take to Creche.

Christina on the Beach. I really like this shot.

Patrick the explorer staking his claim on this part of the beach.

While we were in Hamilton we visited this great little place called Candyland. Where everybody who goes on the tour can make their own cool, large lollipop.

Emily had a bit of help to make hers and then did not want us to take a photo of her face.

Christina showing how big her mouth is.

Blah Blah Blah

So there I was just yesturday reading out my sermon to Perry as I was preparing it and trying to work out if what I had to say was actually making sense and there is my youngest child, my darling Emily, who was obviously distressed that she was not getting all the attention and so decided to do something about it.

Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah was what she started chanting as loud as she could.

That is one way to give your mother confidence about the sermon that she has to preach on Sunday........