Angelina Ballerina

After Bella's ballet show they had some of the characters in the foyer. Lucia got to meet Angelina Ballerina. Bella said she got to hi-5 her backstage. Zach and Lucia were both quite scared of all these dressed up people but we managed to get one photo!!!

Fun at Nanny's house

Lucia and Zach had a ball chasing each other on the bikes at Nanny's house. They went flying down the hill and fell off into the garden on numerous occasions. Luckily we build them tough - they just came up giggling!

Blueberry Buttermilk Pancakes

Bella made us some delicious Blueberry Buttermilk Pancakes. She did very well reading and following the instructions and the results were delicious. She's quite keen to do some more cooking which I'm happy about!

Rarotonga - Day 7

On our last day in Rarotonga we had absolutely stunning weather! We didn't want to leave. We played on the beach, went for our last snorkel and kayak and Matt even fitted in a run! Zach was excited to get a last glimpse of the Rarotongan fire engine and see a pineapple growing.

Lucia loved the taxi ride back to the airport - she just loved the freedom of no seat belts. She was hanging out the window of the taxi enjoying the wind in her hair!

We luckily had late check out and so we didn't leave our villa until 1pm to catch our flight at 2.55pm. Surprisingly we still had lots of time at the airport. However, at 1.20pm when we were standing in the checkout line congratulating ourselves on how quickly we'd manage to pack up we realised we'd forgotten our portacot so we had to make some urgent calls but luckily our lovely taxi drive "Bob" managed to get the portacot to us in the nick of time so we could take it on as hand luggage.

 

 

Rarotonga - Day 6

In the morning we went for a walk/run to Wigmore's Waterfall. It was about a 4km round trip and to our surprise Zach insisted he was going to walk and run the whole way!!! He found a green banana on the way that he wanted to photograph to show Grandad who loves bananas. He was even keen to get in the cold water when we got to the waterfall which is very uncharacteristic of Zach. On the way back we saw some off road buggies that Zach thought were fun to drive.

We ate a delicious lunch of corn and tuna fritters followed by pancakes with maple syrup. In the afternoon we enjoyed some more running around the beach, Bella did some more swimming in the pool, Zach and Daddy put the swing up again and Zach and Lucia enjoyed some more kayaking with Daddy.

I took some pictures of Bella looking pretty with her beautiful lei before Lucia tore it to pieces!!!!

In the evening there was a lovely sunset so we enjoyed some more beach time having fun! As always, Lucia ended up saturated!