Greetings everyone from Sunny Cambridge. We've been back for over 2 months now although sometimes it feels like we've never been away! Tim has started college and I'm back working at the school I was previously. Our blog has been severely neglected so for any die-hard bloggers, you'll be able to catch up. Now where was I....



So we went back up to the North Island and had a wonderful last week. We had amazing weather whilst in Roturoa and went on a tobogon run which Tim professes to be the best adrenalin N.Z. thing he's done. I however managed to fall off whilst children zoomed past me on the all age 'safe' run. Sarah (my sister) and I went zorbing which is basically like tuning into a hamster and running in a giant ball down a hill. And then we headed further north to the Coromandel. We had the most beautiful clear blue skies and though it was meant to be winter it was lovely nad warm. We spent out time on the beach digger monster sand castles with the kids, and then there was the massive hole...

There's a place called hot water beach where you can go and dig a hole to create your own spa pool. Due to the thermals in the area the water is schorching hot and all you have to do is fill it with a bit of cold to get the temperature right. The important thing to know, if you ever happen to go, is that the thermal area are very localised and so you have to check where they are before you start digging. You can just feel them if you put your hand on the sand. This is the imformation my sislter forgot to tell us untill after tim had dug his big hole, in a cold area of the beach. anyway, some Japenese tourist had inherited a boiling pool from some previous tourists and so they let us share there's after laughing at ours. The amazing thing is our was about a meter away and too cold to stand in, there's however was too hot to stand in!

The last day in the coromadel we spent visiting cathedral which was just the most beautiful day and I'll let the photos do the talking.

Our penulatamute weekend in New Zealand was spent with some of Sarah's friends and us in a beach house complety isolated. It was very relaxing with Tim trying his first attempt at fishing and spending most of our time on the beach. The landscape was really beautiful and it felt that there wasn't a care in the world, no need to rush. And then before long we were transported to the hustle and bustle of Hong Kong.