Sunday 30 December 2012

Change of islands, Blair and Amy

Saturday morning we said goodbye to the piglets and our beautiful Golden Hills farm cottage.
Through Marlborough vineyards to Picton where we took the Interislander across.
Today is our second day in the Wellington area. We were exited to come here, mostly because we were meeting up with Blair and Amy, our new friends. We are staying with them for three days in their home in Petone. Blair lived in Belgium for a few years and is a good friend of good friends, when I mailed him about our upcoming trip to his country, he invited us to stay here with him and his daughter Amy who is 10 days older than Madeleine.
It is so nice to be in a "normal" house and we enjoy the conversation with Blair and Tom (a Flemish friend of Blairs who is also touring NZ) and the amazing hospitality they're showing us.
Today they took us to the capital and showed us around, we went to Te Papa, the impressing national museum with an earthquake house and a giant squid. We went for lunch on a boat before heading to Mount Victoria for a 360 view over this hilly city.
Now we have returned from the cinema, we saw "The Hobbit" while Madeleine stayed with Amy, good fun and the boys very happy of course.
So far so good, counting on Michel for some pictures to accompany my text, so if they're not here yet, take a look later (he's playing poker with Blair and Tom.














And tomorrow it's New Years Eve :)

2 comments:

  1. Enjoyable reading as always! Happy that you are happy; Expecting family (sisters) for dinner today, and New Year's Eve at Turid's place tomorrow. You are people's persons :), evidently. So Amy and M. are speaking English? or Dutch?

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  2. So great to see Blair and Amy !
    Amy looks so much like her mother.

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