Spring 2008

It has finally started to warm up a bit after a rather wet and cold winter. Various views of our garden, Hagley Park and punting on the River Avon! This place is more english than England sometimes.

Volley ball at Sumner

Gareth and Wayne in action at the beach! At least we are saved from tight speedos and crop tops!! I gather the sand got absolutely everywhere! Beth not quite so impressed just read a book!!

Sking again!!

You all know how much we enjoy our skiing. We had an absolutely fantastic day with friends Brad and Sue skiing at Round Hill, Lake Tekapo late September. We were lucky enough to have a late snow fall the day before and conditions were great, powder snow, brilliant sunshine and very few people about (200-300 others at the most).

We had a picnic lunch on the snow andgot some great views of Mount Cook over the lake. Beth and Gareth's skiing has come on a lot this winter. I will be struggling to keep up very soon!

Korean Dance

Beth has been learning Korean Dance at school this year and performed at a few cultural events around the city with her school friends. It is very elegant and looks very colourful. She is with her friends Eva, Lauren and Wendy in the photos above. They were dancing at the Korean Society Day in the city centre a couple of weeks back and they looked fabulous!

The great game of cricket!

Cricket! Gareths passion at the moment is cricket and he is likely to be found practicing at the nets in the park, playing in a match, watching it on Sky or playing it on the play station!! If all of those are not possible he will talk about it!

Karate

Karate has become quite a feature of our lives in the last 3 months. Beth and I both go twice a week. I am a little slower on the uptake with my stiffer joints (!)but we are both enjoying it and the club members are a good bunch. Beth is well on her way to her yellow belt and whilst I am getting a lot of encouragement from Sensai Trevor I think it could be a while before I get there too!