Back to NZ

So lovely to see Malcolm home again, although the journey this direction is very tiring.

He arrived back on Thursday 19th at 1am local time and is still catching up with missing several nights sleep! We stayed up in Auckland as he had a conference there on the Saturday, so on Friday we went over the West coast at Piha and enjoyed some fun body boarding in waves that felt like walls of water towering over us - all very exciting and a bit scary!

I think he is glad to be back in the sun.

Shona has changed her look a bit too (back to pre NZ hair length!!) - after being 'bullied' by Malcolm, Rhian, Callum and Iris!

During a short walk from the Jandals Palace hostel to a local waterfall we met a Channel 4 film crew making a new C4 advert!! - what a brilliant trip for the crew for a 10 second ad!
Apparently it is about re crystals floating up out of a waterfall to make the 4?!?

While Malcolm was at the conference, Shona went to the beautiful island of Waihiki. It is certainly somewhere we will go back for a longer visit! Lucky Hamish is off there on Wednesday for a week - he will love it.

Boing on the water is always wonderful especially with the superb views of Auckland city form the harbour. Todays visitor was the Queen Mary 2 looking very majestic.