friday mangemangeroa reserve walk

         

                                           lots of steps!

thursday

dont remember what we did, skip to friday :)

Wedsnesday

Just a little bit for you Fiona, did you ever go to hot water beach, it's weird you did yourself a hole and you get hot water in it, then the water gets warmer as you dig, setting off back to Auckland in the morning, check out by 10am goodnight all I shall put pics on soon xxx

pictures -

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152288113165237&l=88210f363f

Tuesday set off to coramandel

Set off from Maxine's at about 9am we are on our way to coramandel which is bout two hours I've from Auckland, it's a fantastic place, the views are spectacular, yes there's a beach here, its right by a ferry port, just a little ferry that can take you to the island across the water, it's a 2 minute ride, where as if you want your car it's a 30 minute drive, my option was to just swim across it would save some pennies lol, of course we went round in the car. I think the beach is called buffalo beach if not we are near enough to there.
So , I've managed to burn my self again it's blooming hot out here. I really love the beaches the wage is clear sometimes it's cold sometimes it's warm depending on the tide.

Sat there for abit then came back for a shower and got changed for tea.
We went to an Indian restaurant, it was abit quiet no one about, which is good but the waiter looked abit fed up, but he will have to wait a few more weeks until the summer/Christmas holidays come round.

Went to bed at 11pm was very tired, I'll go do today's blog now not all of it though I'm off to sleep x
Im Here, ill put the pictures on!
Oh heres some cows first lol.

monday

Cant remember what we did Monday, I know i went to zumba again today.

sunday walk to maraitai for ice cream

hey fiona i just love hokey pokey ice cream x
breakfast by the sea too with friends stayed out all day went to the beach thats it lol.

                                                Maxine's Breakfast

                                               He's for you Nigel! these pictures are from Eastern Beach in Howick

Hope you read this again ive put some pictures on for you, do you get emails when I update the blog?  xx

These ones are from another beach cant remember which one but we walked from here to maratai 

                                                             here's me ive gone a funny colour lol.

saturday 2 year old birthday

i have pics of some yummy buns

ooopsss forgot the pictures just noticed!

friday, skyfall

went to the cinema with friends friday nighy to see skyfall, the new bond film. I enjoyed it,  its the first one I have seen.

thursday - shopping in manahunga?

We had breakfast at about 11.00am then me and mum got ready to go out with Kathy (Cathy?) Dad went on a long walk somewhere In beachlands, up near Maraitai where the beach is.

So we set of shopping, we went christmas shopping we went to a shopping centre in manahunga? we were also looking for something for Jasmine its her party on saturday, her birthday is on the 27th november and mums is the 28th november so its going to be sort of joint.

more tomorrow going to bed its 23:35pm thursday night. no pics i went shopping.

wednesday volcano - mount eden

hi all, thanks for reading the blog, and leaving comments.
We went to mount eden today, its a volcano that erupted over 15,000 years ago, lucky we werent on the one that erupted it was mount Tongariro.
 Heres a link for you
http://m.stuff.co.nz/national/7979461/Panic-on-Mt-Tongariro-as-volcano-erupts

Ive got the pictures here, check this out -
if you want to know more info pls comment x

tuesday moratai beach again ;)

i need to blog every two days im abit slow sorry, ill make up for it xx
we went to the beach again, it was really hot, so i went to get mum an icecream and me and dad had a magnum, mun had hokey pokey and mint on hers, hokey pokey is sort of like crunchie chocolate, without the chocolate ofcourse, also cause im greedy I had one of the buns me and Maxine had made. They were banana buns, I had the job of mashing the bananas.
Also we had our lunch on the beach I took a jam sandwhich with some fruit and a tomato.
After that I went for a paddle in the sea, the tide was out so the water was getting further and further away. I attempted to get to the steps on the wharf but  I only got up to my shorts because It was cold.

Im having a fantastic time as you can see its so exciting we are heading to the south island on the 3rd of december for two weeks, come back just in time for christmas.
Over the christmas weeks we are going to be dog sitting for Helen, she has a little dog called Louie, ill get a picture of him for you.

So when we had lunch on the beach there were lots of seagulls and sparrows after my jam sarnie.

monday st heliers and mission bay

Went to St Heliers it was a nice day so we had our lunch on the beach, I got bored so I went to look for some shorts so I could go in the sea, I didnt find any so I went back to mum and dad with a flat white coffee for mum and a tea for me, dad didnt want anything.

We had our drinks I said to mum do you want to go see if theres any good shops to look in, we went to a pharmacy and bought some wet wipes to use after we had been to the beach, We then went to the grocery shop next door and got some crisps and a bottle of pop.

We left the beach then head out to Auckland, we drove towards Mission Bay, there wasnt much there so we carried on towards Auckland.
When we got to Auckland we went to the Canterbury shop where I bought a t-shirt with silver ferns/cantebury on I think Darrren said they are a Basketball team, not sure.
We walked round in a circle just to have a look round, nothing exciting so we set off back home.

Went to zumba for the first time today it was hard work but managed to do it, we did gangnam style really fast I loved it, I went with Maxine to cockle bay school it was a big hall, lots of peopke were there young and old, it was my first day so instead of $10 it was $5. We had to follow the instructors they were dancers so we had to follow what they did, they put some really fast salsa music on I couldnt keep up, might go again thursday, I went with Maxine, we met Jodie there too.

sunday musick point and walk to half moon bay from bucklands beach.

We went to Musick Point, which is the furthest point you can go in New Zealand,So we had parked the car in the carpark and walked round the reserve, the views were excellent. if you want to get round it you would have to swim round I guess, It was very windy up there so I followed dad down some steps onto the rocks, it was even windier down there so I went back to the steps. We then head back to the car.

                                                These are the steps going down to the rocks at Musick Point

This is a picture of dad on the rotary walk which leads from Bucklands Beach towards Half Moon Bay. We went on the walk when we got there in the car, it was really windy down there too. It is a long stretch of Harbour so it had a Wharf on it.

What about the Pigeon mountain walk. we went up a big hill called Pigeon mountain it is a volcano but has not erupted for a long time, it was a long way, we eventually got to the top and sat on a bench and took some photos. (pics?)

After we got back we were having tea with Maxines daughter Jodie's Husband Richards relatives, they are going home on tuesday so we had a birthday party for Jasmine who is there daughter she is 2 next week, so they didnt want to miss out.
She opened her presents and we had a play, she got a big yellow digger, we then went out to the sandpit to play with it.

Everyone went home then we watched tv then went to have a snooze on the sofa then went to bed later on after watching the english football results.

Forgot, we went to lloyd ellsmore park, there was some lads playing cricket, we sat on the grass to watch them. Then me and dad went to look in the Historical village was wheel chair friendly for mum, which it was you can hire a electric wheelchair for free too which is good. Me and dad got some leaflets too!

                                              this one below is pigeon mountain me and dad lost control so we ran down.

this is the entrance to the village

saturday, moved out from the kittens

ill blog sunday morning its currently twelve o clock and on my phone which isnt good, ill be back on soon.
ok this bits for now whilst im here. just got back from helens we went to have a pamper day, i had a facial and my toes painted ill put some pics up. we have wifi again now speak soon. leave your comments pls xxx
Ive got pretty purple toes now hurray. We had nibbles for tea.

Friday midnight mass

On friday we went for a walk round the Rotary walk again, we didnt do alot.

We met Maxine and Darren and a few friends in "the prospect of Howick" which is a pub on the main street of Howick.

We went to a Thai restaurant which was called Benjarong at about 8.00pm to have tea, it was busy so we booked a table, I didnt enjoy it that much everything was abit different to what I would normally eat.

I had beef, duck and pork, the waiter brought the rice round in a bowl she served it to you.

I had a nice ice cream at the end though.
I went to paper plus to get some birthday/christmas cards for mum and Vicki.

Thursday browns bay

Drove to Devonport, we got out of the car to have lunch there but our friends from Fiji text us saying they were in Browns Bay, so we got back in the car and drove another 20 minutes up the coast to meet up with them, they are very distant relatives that dad has met through an Ancestry website.

We met them in speakers corner for lunch, me and dad and Hoki fish bites and chips, was lovely in the Bay the sun was out but not a lot it was sometimes sunny sometimes not it was warm though.
After lunch we went onto the beach, mum managed to get the scooter on the sand because it was quite flat and the tide had gone out so that was good.
But she couldn't go all the way on the sand so she went on the path near the main road and met me and dad at the other side of the beach, it's wasn't too far on we were sort of in the middle.

Donna, mums friend has got a friend that makes walking sticks so mum had ordered one and we went back to O'Hagans to collect it, Donna wasn't there but we met the lady who's company makes them.
It is a lovely purple one.

Then came home for a curry.
After tea we watched Mrs Browns Boys, then after that we stayed up late to watch a DVD, we watched The Departed eventually went to bed at 1am.

What sort of tree is this Nigel?

In His Response - It's a Banyan Tree, also known as a Moreton Bay Fig. It's a "strangler fig" that grows around another tree. Thanks Nige xxx

Weds blog

Went to slyvia park to have a look round we were abit fed up of been inside so we went for a shop, its abit like kingsgate but abit bigger and most of it is outside.
Didnt do alot.

Weds - cats

This is Ruby, Maxines Cat

This is Daisy or Minnie one of Jodies cats.

                                                check sundays blog ive put pics on of the cars!

Tuesday rain and thundering

We got up at 11.30am we didn't go out because it was really cloudy we put some washing out to dry and by 12.00pm we had to bring it back in because it started raining really heavily.

It was thundering and lightening it wasn't nice Jodie's kittens didn't like it they came to sit with me.

After it had stopped raining we went to Maxine's to put the washing in the dryer as Jodie doesn't have one, we took maxine some baking trays because she was making Christmas cakes.

Monday Half moon bay walk

Went for a walk to Half moon bay, on the way there we went to the rotary park walkway, it was a nice walk, of course for me and dad, mum was on the scooter.
It was very cloudy it wasn't raining though.
We saw the Waikeke Boat coming in, you can get on this with your cars, you get on at Half Moon Bay ferry port and you go across to Waikeke Island it takes about 20 minutes to get there, I have not been on it yet but mum and dad went on it last year.

Sunday 11th November Big boys toys car show

Went to big boys toys with Dad and Kenny, Mum and Helen stayed at home, there was a show on where you could look at people's boats that are quite expensive. There was a bike show on too, we watched some boys on bikes they were going down a giant ramp and performing tricks I have pictures for that just got to pick the best ones. It's Wednesday at the moment have not blogged in a few days but I'm back to it now.