Returned from holiday!

We are back in Kapiti after a fantastic trip south to Christchurch. We had an action packed 6 days with family and despite eating ridiculous quantities of sugary treats, delicious Chinese food, BBQ and pizza I am less than 2kgs heavier than when we left :-) That will take two weeks of hard work to shift but, all things considered, it could have been much worse! Running around parks, playing on the flying fox and going for lots of walks certainly seems to have helped.

Central Wellington from a plane. Dom didn't like the delay we had on the tarmac waiting for baggage to be loaded onto the plane. He was perfectly happy for the first 15 minutes of sitting in the plane not moving, but it started to get a little old after that. Once we took off he found the experience quite exciting :-)

Christchurch Botanical Gardens has a cool fountain, with sinister-looking water-squirting fish.

Next to the fountain was the much more exciting feature of a mother duck and 4 or 5 ducklings.

They were very calm and tame, quite happy to mooch about swimming or looking for food as we walked past.

Lots more photos to come!