Sunday, April 1, 2012

The rest of March

 Lew had a couple of days down working in Christchurch so I thought I'd go down too:-) My good friend Caroline picked me up and gave me a lovely time taking me around. Thanks Caroline:-) We went into the city to have a look at the container city they have built.

 Michael and Caroline took us for a drive around some of the area's affected by the earthquake after dinner. We came to where this church had been and they had a white chair for everyone that had been lost in the earthquake set out as the congregation ! Lew got out to take the photos and got back into the car overcome with a wave of emotional after looking at the chairs and seeing the little chair and the baby car seat!

 We had a family dinner at Grandma's the other night which was very enjoyable
 I'm sure you heard me squeal when I looked down at the floor in the pantry after feeling a piece of hair or something on my arm!!!!!!!! Look how big it was and this is NZ! Where's it's mate??????

 It was a beautiful morning at Milford beach as Lew got ready to swim around to Takapuna 2.8 kms
 My husband with a half smile as he's wondering to himself if he's crazy not wearing a wet suit like 99% of the other swimmers!
 Can you see his arms waving
 Straight into the sun they go not sure which 1's Lew
 Running to the finish post at 57mins:-)
 The happy after smile that says I wasn't cold and I'm happy with my time:-)
 We called in after the swim to check out the progress with Jess and Steve's flat:-) It's looking good
 This is the pink cushion I bought in Perth for my pretty room:-)

2 comments:

Mike said...

Great to see all these as usual, Merle!
Love yr comments!!
Oh yes, the photos of the white chairs... how poignant and I must go and take one myself!!
Was nice to see the family... and Rob and Junia.
Planted some brocolli plants as you suggested and Mike bought a few herbs so will put the pics on blog asap.. herbs looking a bit droopy, so hope they will get more perky soon! Thanks so much for your advice!

Anna said...

You are putting me to shame! Promise Easter updates!