It has rained the whole trip. You can't even see outside! So we did drawing :) Daniel

Ok so it is pretty spectacular driving through lightning storms! We were a bit late leaving home as everyone was so tired after a wild Wellington night last night, but we are on the way finally. The sky keeps lighting up and we are not totally happy on our metal car! When we drive through Bulls our family all have to come up with words that end in -bul...we always groan but we all do it anyway, it's laugha-bul really. It is a terri-bul game...at least the words w...

So the bags are packed... and the luggage in the picture is it! We are doing lots of internal flights in the US, and didn't like the thought of being charged for checking in luggage. So it seemed a great chance to try our hand at being a backpacking family. We each have one bag, and are using compression cells to make sure we still have room to collect things en route. We have an early start in the morning as we are driving up to Auckland to catch our night flig...

There's no place like home...Although that doesn't necessarily mean we want to be here! It always blows my mind that you can be swimming in a pool in one country in the morning, but then later the same day can be in a totally different country and climate. The flight was uneventful, Glen slept for a good chunk of it, and both kids got 4 1/2 hours, even I managed 1/2 an hour. Watched a few more movies and the time went quickly, 9 hours doesn't seem that long anymo...

The end is nigh! We are on the last day of our time in Singapore, and it's the last day of our holiday. Just enough time to pack a bit more in before we get on the plane... After our very late night last night, we slept in then went down to brunch at the buffet, we rolled out of there an hour later, and I took the kids up for a last swim in the amazing pool. It is 3 Olympic pools long! We checked out but left our bags at the hotel, and went exploring. We went to ...