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Well, it’s a week already since I returned from the Mother Country. I might have to update you in a few different posts … otherwise there will be photograph overload in the extreme.
Needless to say it was an absolutely FANTASTIC time away, especially to be with my beloved Mum to celebrate her 70th birthday.
So, from the beginning …
My Sis-in-Law, Lynda, and I flew on the red-eye special from Perth to Melbourne, arriving at some ungodly hour of the morning (Perth time). However we fortified ourselves with a hearty breakfast in a rather lovely cafe in Melbourne Airport (the name of which escapes me just now). Then transferring to good old Air New Zilland for the hop, skip and jump to Wellington to be collected by Lynda’s bestie Julie and her hubby Marty.
Marty, Julie & Lynda
The weather was overcast and cool-ish, although not as cool as I had mentally prepared myself for – which was a pleasant surprise and in fact the whole holiday I didn’t have to break out the polar fleece once!
They drove us up to Mt Victoria which overlooks Wellington harbour in many different directions.
which included a view over the Wellington International Airport airstrip … with sea at either end. You surely do hope that the day you land is not overly windy, and that the Pilot has had copious amounts of coffee to keep him awake and alert for the landing!
This greeted us as we walked to the top of Mt Victoria:
and there were a number of Tui’s flying around in the bush as we walked up the hill. One particular bird did NOT want to look my way as I tried to photograph him, but I got a number of half-decent shots all the same:
and an Antarctica monument (which Julie said they had to put the guards up around, because kids were skateboarding up the sides – Imagine!!). 
Then off for a drive around the streets of Wellington, which are such a mix of old and new, lots of hills …
and Parliament (the Beehive to the left)
and awesome Street signs (with a Buzzy Bee on the top) … how I miss Kiwi quirkiness …
So, that was day one of our travels. Back soon with more …
Love Fee x
A beautiful friend just dropped this over for the kids and I … isn’t it spectacular? We attempted our own version of a kit Gingerbread House this morning … sadly it looked NOTHING like this, and pretty much fell apart … but we had fun making it! 
