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Christmas Day 2019

December 28, 2019 by NZ Filbruns 2 Comments

Our family Christmas tradition, since moving to the Southern Hemisphere where December is the beginning of summer, is to go on a picnic. Usually, we go away from home somewhere that we don’t often get to, such as the beach. This year, no one felt like going away. We took votes, and all but two of us voted to stay home! We decided to go down to the riverbed below our village and have a cookout beside the creek that flows into the river down there. Gayle and the two little boys went down ahead and started the fire; the rest of us went down when we were ready. The big boys loaded their barrel boat onto the trailer and took it down. We let them off at a place where the creek and road meet, and they loaded our food and other things into it, as the easiest way to get it all to the picnic site. Esther and I then drove on to the parking spot while they floated and poled downstream. Here they come around the bend!01-IMG_2870

When we were stopped at the ford where we loaded everything into the boat, I let Miss Joy touch the creek. She wasn’t sure about the cold water, but soon loved it!02-IMG_2871

Off they go! Mr. Diligence laid back in the stroller and had a luxurious ride.03-IMG_287304-IMG_2875

Once we reached our destination and unloaded, the boys went across the creek to cut sticks for roasting sausages.05-IMG_287806-IMG_287907-IMG_288008-IMG_2881

Miss Joy got to taste a carrot stick—what fun!09-IMG_2883

Mr. Sweetie broke his arm last week, so he has it in a sling. It’s a greenstick (or hairline) fracture an inch or two below his shoulder, so they didn’t put a cast on it. He’s looking forward to not having to wear the sling next week! It hasn’t slowed him down much, though.10-IMG_2884

Simon took his air rifle along, so after lunch he boated Esther and I across the creek and we got to try shooting. I never hit the target, but felt better later when he said that he had discovered, after we went home, that the scope was a bit off.11-IMG_288612-IMG_288813-IMG_288914-IMG_2891

Filed Under: Activities at Home Tagged With: Air Rifle, Christmas, Picnic, Riverbed

Christmas at Lake Haupiri

January 26, 2019 by NZ Filbruns Leave a Comment

For our family’s Christmas celebration, we took a picnic lunch and ate it beside the Haupiri River. Then, we went back down the road a couple of miles to the boat ramp into Lake Haupiri. The boys launched their barrel boat and spent the afternoon boating around the lake and playing in the water. I enjoyed sitting in a camping chair in the shade and looking at the scenery! The second picture shows Gloriavale, directly across the lake.

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Filed Under: Away From Home Tagged With: Boating, Christmas, Lake Haupiri

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