The Mum and Dad Files

A bit of an odd post; not in the sense it contains three people from Lincolnshire and one from Norfolk - but that it's not really in one place or doing one thing. Like every other post!

So this is a post full of photos I like from my parents visit to NZ, from mid-January to late-Feb. It was brilliant seeing them - and took me back 7 years to picking them up at the airport in Japan. I think they were both thankful this time to not be facing a holiday of foreign language and a diet of rice and fish!

The highlight of their visit was walking the Routeburn and visiting Milford Sound with them - but those photos won't make it into this collection. Here are the more informal ones that did...

The Airport Taxi Service
(unfortunately our vehicle is a 2 seater van!)

The best way to cure jet lag? Walk the 16km Coast to Coast
on their first day!

Lunch with a view...

Trudging down One Tree Hill to the end of our walk

A treat for Mum and Dad - an all you can eat buffet
at the top of the Sky Tower

Every dessert at once... happy days

Settling in weekend over... time to get them out of
Auckland and enjoying the van.
Here's a pretty big Kauri!

And waving goodbye to my parents and the van - before they
set off for 4 weeks in it... Thanks for the lift to work!

And 4 weeks later... We joined them for a trip to the Northlands

Camp diving

And to our Bach (holiday home) we hired for a night... Here's a
timed photo that Mum was running for... And ran into the glass door!

She remembered the door this time...

Your average Kiwi beach

Ta ra!

Being a kid again...
Who said Sarah's got me by the balls?!

Dad's dream shed... We spent quite a while staring at this!

The holidaymakers...

Thanks for coming to visit -
we're glad you loved it as much as we do!