Happy New Year - 2020

New Year greetings to you all as we start off 2020.  For those of you who keep up to date with our news on FB you will see that we have just returned from a family holiday to New Zealand.  We were able to catch up with friends from our time at Moody, Uganda and Scotland.  That is what made the holiday so special as well as the beautiful scenery which likens itself to parts of Scotland and Switzerland so we felt quite at home.  Below are a smattering of memories from our time together and additional photos can been see on our FB page



Hobbit house
We all got a bit over zealous with cherry picking and ended up with 9kg.  This fruit farm had just been taken over from a family that originated from Edinburgh.  He even caught me eating one much to the kids amusement. (No freebies allowed)



We didn't stay on this beach long.....sooooo cold!


Joshua about to go on a biscuit ride....it was a spectacular ride

Mount Cook


A shop owned by a German carpenter with amazing wood creations

We were here 20 years ago on our honeymoon, lots of stories since then

Punakaiki Blow Holes


Go Karting with an amazing view
Besties with Mt Cook in the background

J the photographer

Z - our newest budding photographer


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