autumn colours

Anzac weekend

Thursday afternoon 4 of us left Invercargill in the rain for elsewhere! according to the papers the weather forecast its always fine elsewhere! so we went to find it!

On the trailer we had our two quad bikes, stayed Thursday night at the "Roxbourgh Lodge", this used to be the quarters for the staff working on the Roxborough Dam, now converted to a very nice lodge, very nice ensuite rooms and we can recommend the restaurant facillities also.

Friday we headed for Arrowtown, hadnt realised it was festival week so lots of people about.

We parked down by the river and unloaded the bikes and headed into Macetown, Rozy and Ro had not been biking with us before so they were enjoying it all. The river was very low so not many excitingly deep river crossings, didnt even get our feet wet. enjoyed a leisurely lunch among the autumn leaves. The colours were magnificant. It is about 4 years since we have been in to Macetown, nice to see more signage up about the history of the place, but sad also to see that two of the old houses have been burnt down by careless tourists.

We came back to Arrowtown and stayed the night with friends there, Ro and I enjoyed an hours walk along the new walking track which goes right round Lake Hayes. nice to have a spa under the starry sky later in the evening. Saturday we went into Arrowtown to go to the market, ended up staying till after 2 to watch the parade which was excellent. and yes Arrowtown must be elsewhere because the weather was brilliant, blue sky, sunshine and bright autumn colours just magic! Roll on another long weekend!!

NZ dare no.43

Dare no.43

Its taken me a while to get brave enough to have at a go at this one, hard to choose what photos to use. As you can see I have a thing about old things! so I have plenty of photos of old house's and machinery etc that we see as we travel, so if you see someone leaning over a fence on the roadside snapping photos of such like its probably me!! Among my "to do in retirement list" is an album of these photos, got to get past the grandkids first though!.

NZ Dare challenge #42

I have only just recently been introduced to this amazing fun website and now cant resist the temptation to enter in! Not that I have time for these extra's I am so far behind with my ordinary scrapbooking pages, but why not! a little splurge on the side line is good for us sometime I'm sure!! So here is my entry (was'nt I cute!)

Lion Boys!

As it is still raining, there is still no silage made, so this afternoon we went to Slope Point to visit our other Grandchildren! Taylor and Mitchell had both been to playcentre in the morning and were still wearing their neat face paint, very wild looking Lions! And very exciting happenings, Mitchell is having his first night in a single bed, a new bed arrived for Taylor so now Mitch has Taylors old bed and its pretty cool!! just hope He stays in it all night!
And yes my hedge got trimmed for me yesterday, so now I have the lovely job of cleaning up all the trimmings, but good to have it done.