Early summer holidays

Had a week off last week and went up Oma and Opas (aka mum and dad). Josh loved swimming in the pool. Weather was just perfect and we managed a couple of day trips; to Russell and Paihia one day and into Whangarei to catch up with Becks Nanna a different day. Hirzing Opa (mums dad) is over from Germany at the moment so it was nice to spend some time with him too.

On Tuesday we were lucky enough to watch some Orca Whales swimming up the harbour; we think there must have been about 5 or 6 of them with a couple of young ones. Hard to get good photos as they rarely fully come out of the water and from the photos I did get it's a little hard to judge the size of them; the two larger ones would have been around the 5m mark in length.

Looking forward to christmas now and spending some more time relaxing in the sun and the odd swim with Josh in the pool.

As always; click on the photos to enlarge them.








Uncle Danal and Uncle Felix being 'indians' in the pool.




Mmmmm - icecream in Russell :-)









Below are some of the pictures of the whales;














And a trip to Oakura for an icecream with Oma and Opa (Hirzine Opa stayed at home as he managed to get a cold and so was resting/recovering):