I decided that the boys needed to have their Imm's before we headed off on xmas break. Kieran was still musing bitterly upon this event on thursday.... and friday.... but luckily this seemed to have been relegated to the past on Saturday morning. It was an absolute scorcher of a day...not ideal as we were walking to Lydia's house to collect Playcentre key, then going to Playcentre to collect my Celtic Woman xmas cd, K's xmas cd, and K's sunhat, then walking back to Lydia's to return the key... then walking back home!! Suffice it to say that I was wondering if the hat and cd's were worth it with slowpoke seal dragging at my heels for the 3.5k walk. However Louisa gave us a ride home and returned the key to Lydia so that was a win, and we even left home a mere 5 minutes late... sans my hairbrush, but still on time. The car behaved beautifully, the boys likewise with a lovely 2 hours sleep from then and we got to Kerikeri around 3pm Christmas Eve.
From that golden day the weather only deteriorated sadly. However Christmas day was an exciting one, and sunny, as the boys opened their presents chock full of excitement! We got the boys some BIG cars, I got an IPAD and Chris got some roleplaying books. Then we headed off to the beach house in Russell for the rest of the day. There were lots more presents and plenty of food followed by some sandcastle building and shell hunting afterwards. Much later we dragged two knackered little boys off to Kerikeri. We chilled out on Boxing day before heading off to the Warehouse. I staggered out some time later with swimming shorts ($6), 2 sunhats, socks, moisturiser and ungvita cos C is cutting YET ANOTHER tooth, then headed to the beachhouse the following day. This time we hit the beach first, and K ran in and out of the waves while his brother built sandcastles. As Chris was co sandcastle building I perforce had to gallop up and down the beach and in and out of the waves. Good times. Our last day in Kerikeri was Sue's birthday, and Blair made Gordon's sage pressed belly pork.... while I made Frangelico trifle....mmmmmm so yummy!!! Then we headed off on the 30th at 10:15 where to our surprise we saw a policeman and Jenny and Sue and Kingsley all pulled over on the side of the road with Jenny being spoken to by a Police Officer. In the very same spot Chris was pulled over 3 years ago lol. The boys were very good and there was very little traffic. So that, and a 1 hour snooze from the boys made it an awesome trip! And we are home, and all is good!
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