Our trip up the Gondola

Today it is Canterbury show day so Stephen had the day off. It was such a lovely day that we had to go do something. We have an annual pass for the Tram and Gondola. We hadn't used the Gondola so we decided to do that today. The Gondola takes you up to the top of the Port Hills. Rachel thought the motor at the bottom was too noisy. Fortunately once we got in and the doors closed you couldn't hear the noise.

At the top you have pretty impressive views to north, south and west. We went for a little walk (Rachel would probably say it was a long walk for her little legs). Then we went through the time tunnel experience ride inside. Rachel didn't like that either. We had our lunch (sandwiches) before coming back down.

Andrew thinks it was a fun ride and wants to go again.

Here is Andrew on one of the walking tracks.

Rachel and Mummy on the way back down. Rachel enjoyed it when it wasn't noisy.

The collage below is a just a few of the scenic photos we took. In one photo you can see where part of castle rock has come down with the recent earthquakes.

We will go again sometime.

Andrew's earthquake machine

This morning Andrew decided that he was going to make a machine to stop the earthquakes. I would love to have a machine that stopped earthquakes so thought I'd encourage him. This was after a discussion about the cracks in our walls. After much thought and discussion (he discounted the idea of using a motor) he said it would be really long and you would need a whole in the roof to get it up to the sky.

I asked him how this would stop the earthquakes. He then said it doesn't stop the earthquakes it stops us from getting cracks as it sends the shaking into the neighbours.