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!)
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Lily by Lily Lake
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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
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At the zoo we got up close to Burma the elephant. Many many photos and memories, just sharing a couple today!
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These four look like THEY'RE in the enclosure...would make for a pretty entertaining display anyway!
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Up the Sky Tower after 5pm (easy parking in the CBD!) 186m high here! Then we went up to 220m!
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Cooper was upset that I wouldn't let him bungy jump off..
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...especially after the others did it! Hehe. They enjoyed pushing Lachie off too!
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Off to Butterfly Creek for plenty of butterfly encounters
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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!
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More beach fun, even though it was windy and overcast (true four-seasons-in-one-day weather!)
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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
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Eden got four seconds..and a goody bag!
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This competition also had a Celtic-type choreography competition. Here's Suzanne's girls...
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And they came second overall.
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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!)
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Medal/trophy haul...
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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
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At Kelly Tarltons, Lily became a "penguin trainer". Cooper was upset that he didn't see Kelly...and Georgie, Molly and Cohan!
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So much to see, amazing to see how much has changed in three years since we last went too.
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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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