I Climbed a Mountain...

This week is 'Outdoor Week' at school. We basically get to deviate from our normal programme and do some outdoorsy type activities. This year the juniour class theme is animals including human animals.

So far we have had an animal show, made scroggin and climbed Cannon Point.

We climbed Cannon Point, the hill behind the school, today. It took us three hours up and down. Pretty good for 5 and 6 year olds. I'm tired and achey and am starting to think I really should run round the field with the kids in the mornings...I'm so unfit.

The 'mountain' we climbed

The view from the top. You can see right out to Wellington Harbour.

But you can't see my house.

Pretty as a postcard on the way back down.

It's a good thing it was overcast...long walks uphill are not fun in hot sunshine!

Tomorrow we're having a treasure hunt and making kites. Thursday we are going to zoo...I can't wait. I love the zoo. Friday...we are recovering!

I had set up posts for this week, so that I didn't have to worry about posting when I was busy with outdoor week and report writing. I forgot to schedule them though...I left them as drafts. Opps!

Rugged Wellington Coast and Gardening!

Last Friday Nick and I took mum out to a job interview at the airport in Wellington. They interviewer had flown in for the day and was doing all her interviews at the airport. We dropped mum off and had a look around the shops...then we got bored and went for a drive. We drove out towards Moa Point and stopped when we found a nice carpark so we could walk around.

Looking towards the other side of the bay...Wellington is all about bays on this side of the coast.

I can see the airport runway...

Wild flowers.

A rock with a hole! Awesomeness it was person sized and the walking track went straight through.

It's always fun to visit somewhere you wouldn't always go. I normally drive to the airport and then drive home, I've never explored the area. So it was fun to check out this little part of the coast. We didn't get to explore too much as mum rang asking to be picked up...finally! In good news...she did get the job :)

And here is a picture that shows everyone the weather I've been fighting all holidays as I've tried to swatch my untrieds.

Looking at the border of our section. All the trees are ours except the twiggy bare one. The wood pigeons have destroyed that tree.

Oh look it's blue sky...I can swatch holo's! Then 30sec later it's dark grey with no hope of sunlight... then it rains... then the sun pops back out and the cycle starts all over again.

And back to grey...but look is that blue...?

At least it was sunny yesterday. Mum and Dad came round to help us sort out the section...We've been trying to all holidays but the intermittent rain has prevented us. We also swapped beds, gave mum and dad our spare queen and they gave us a single. So my polish room/library is almost completed. We're going to stick a large mirror up today. It'll be awesome.

Which is grass which is garden? Ahhhh the weeds lol.

As you can see we have no problem growing things...I'm rather good at growing weeds...
\But look I can grow vegetables as well! Check out my lettuces and strawberries.

And finally some nails! These are my manual labour nails I wore yesterday...and my first attempt at dotting lol.

Manual labour nails: OPI Steady as She Rose, CG Snow and Happy Go Lucky.

The dotting tools I used are the same kind as in my 365 Giveaway

New Years Day

I love New Years Day much more than New Years Eve. I've never been very good at staying awake till midnight. New years day is awesome though. It's so relaxed. Up untill New Years Eve the shops are crazy busy still, everyone seems up tight and no one seems to relax.
New Years Day...the shops are peacefully quiet, everyone seems to be laid back and holiday mode seems to have set in.

Last New Years Day we spent the day at Scorching Bay, it wasn't so scorching as the wind was up and rather chilly, but it was an awesome day.

This year we went on a little ferry trip. Instead of driving round tp Days Bay, we drove into Wellington and caught the ferry. The day started off cloudy, but ended up fantastically sunny.

Bye bye Wellington

Coming in to Days Bay

Looking towards the Hutt Valley from Days Bay

Ferry's in

Coming back into Wellington, Oriental Parade.

Te Papa, the national museum, we're planning to visit on Monday.

Docked again, looking back towards Mount Vic and Oriental Parade.

Suprise attack sun = Sun burn. I was several shades of red.