Okay, so first blog update in a while (over a week?) We've just been spending our time relaxing in Geraldine, helping Nan around the house with work on a Nursing Chair that used to be Granny's that we're re-upholstering with the help of a man called Rod Mcleod who has sessions at the craft mornings on fridays where I do the Creche. So far we've stripped the majority of the varnish off, with a few really minute bits left that we just sanded off when we went over ...

Okay, first blog update in a few days... We haven't really been getting up to too much, on thursday Josh and Sam took Rosie and Chris AND their luggage in the little Daihatsu to Christchurch to catch their plane home. At the airport, Rosie looked at her passport and saw that if she stayed past her visa expiry date then she would have her face taken off!! ("...face removal..."). Meanwhile I accompanied Nan to patchwork club and met some of her friends ...

Today we got up even brighter and earlier than when we went to Hanmer, and set off for Methven at 7am!! The drive was about an hour and when we got there, we parked at Big Al's Ski shop and got our gear. Everyone was skiing except Josh who wanted to snowboard instead. We got our boots, skis, some got gloves, and I got some "salad pets" (Rosie's interpretation of Salopettes!!) /Ski trousers. The guys in the shop, Shawn and Richard were really friendly,...

Today Josh, Rosie and I went up into Christchurch to Clip n Climb again. Josh, Rosie and Chris had already been, but Josh wanted to take me in to have a go and it was really nice to have the 3 cox kids doing something together just us. The building sort of looks like a warehouse from the outside, but the inside is really cool. One side is all rock face with holds all over and lots of proper harnesses for the hardcore rock climbers and members etc, and the other ...

Hello again! Yesterday we woke up bright and early to go to Hanmer Springs. We set off at about 9 so that we would make it in time for our first excursion, quadbiking! The journey is about 3 hours from Geraldine, passing through Christchurch halfway. Nothing much really happened on the journey there and we made it to Hanmer at about 12:15, plenty of time to get our bearings before quadbiking. We went into the springs info thingy to find out where Rosie and Chri...