Stayed at a great little bach in Piha...crazy busy city by day, peaceful relaxing beach sounds by night. Except NO tv or Internet (for mummy!)
Lily by Lily Lake
On the way to the city...Lachie learned how to change a tyre! Well it took the DriveRight people 20 minutes to send someone! He just checked we'd done it right and took us back to his workshop to repair the hole
At the zoo we got up close to Burma the elephant. Many many photos and memories, just sharing a couple today!
These four look like THEY'RE in the enclosure...would make for a pretty entertaining display anyway!
Up the Sky Tower after 5pm (easy parking in the CBD!) 186m high here! Then we went up to 220m!
Cooper was upset that I wouldn't let him bungy jump off..
...especially after the others did it! Hehe. They enjoyed pushing Lachie off too!
Off to Butterfly Creek for plenty of butterfly encounters
And patting and tickling the baby crocs (about 18 months old), keeper gave a good (first-hand????) explanation on what would happen if your finger got too close to his mouth!
More beach fun, even though it was windy and overcast (true four-seasons-in-one-day weather!)
Sunday was the Auckland Caledonian Dancing Society Highland Competition...check out Lily's competition!! (She's on the left). She got two seconds, two fourths and her most proud moment, third trophy fling
Eden got four seconds..and a goody bag!
This competition also had a Celtic-type choreography competition. Here's Suzanne's girls...
And they came second overall.
Love Cooper's new t-shirt (he doesn't like new clothes, but I managed to buy him four t-shirts, some shorts and [his fourth pair, ahem] of skinny jeans - and he's happy to wear them, bonus!)
Medal/trophy haul...
After the competition, the girls were all invited to dance in the Caledonian Society concert. Lily and Eden were the only little girls, but any chance to perform on a huge stage! And obligatory photo on the way back to the bach
At Kelly Tarltons, Lily became a "penguin trainer". Cooper was upset that he didn't see Kelly...and Georgie, Molly and Cohan!
So much to see, amazing to see how much has changed in three years since we last went too.
Obviously there's hundreds more photos! Had an awesome week, followed by a pretty uneventful drive home yesterday, despite Lachie picking up the Rez's tummy bug!!!
When can we go back????
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