Andrew's new sleeping postion.

Last night when I went to bed this is where I found Andrew sleeping. While we have people staying we do have a bed for him to sleep in.

Rachel's "double stroller"

Here is Rachel's idea on how to take more than one doll for a walk at time. She has been doing this quite a lot lately. We think the bottom doll is meant to be having a sleep as they are in the reclined position.

Tent Construction

This morning the kids both wanted to build tents. Mummy said she would only build one for them to share. Rachel decided she would make her own. Below is her effort. Not bad for a 2 1/2 year old.

Rachel is looking at these photos telling me that her bear is sleeping in the tent so I need to be quiet.

Andrew was willing to wait for mummy to be able to put his tent. We used our new bar stools and some dinning room chairs to hold up the blanket.

Daddy is making coffee in the background. The reason the bench looks messy is that I was in the middle of cleaning out the cup and glasses cupboard.

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.