Easter? We've only just had Christmas!

Time really does fly by faster as you get older! Sister Kris has been and gone and the house once again has gone quiet - will probably stay that way now heading into winter. Last week Leenie went on a girlie roadtrip to Rotorua with Dot, Kris and Mum - we are all still talking and had a bloody good time. Lots of laughs and nattering like old chooks (some of us older than others!). The girls went up in Dots car, stayed at Rydges and just about suffocated with the heat and pong for the few days! We really dont remember Rotorua being that blimin smelly or hot! hehe. Had a lovely dinner with Rema and Ray and the following day had a catch up with Cousin Miranda and her new baby boy. Below is breakfast at a cute wee motel restaurant on Fenton St, nice basic food and good prices - we like that! :)

We went to Tirau for the day, wandered around all the lovely little arty craft shops, had lunch and then came back to Rotorua for a drive over to the Blue and Green Lakes. There's a really well layed out look-out between the two lakes - only problem was ... the trees had grown so high, you couldnt see anything! *doh*

On our way back to Taupo (a breakfast stop!) Dot took us to the Aratiatia Rapids - about 70kms south of Rotorua on the main road. The water from below the Huka falls is released by automated floodgates on a regular basis (four times a day) and is an amazing sight to see! The canyon rapidly fills up with water over a 10 minute period and flows for about 30 minutes before the floodgates are closed again. The photo's dont do it justice, you really need to stop and watch!

Before the water is released ....

The same place 10 minutes later!

We got home safe and sound. Managed to knacker mum - she moseyed off pretty quickly to get some rest - obviously not used to the three of us yahooing and carrying on for 72 hours!

Easter was pretty tame. Good Friday was spent painting the front of the house - Bill and Craig working on the outside, Leenie in the garage painting the shutters - 8 of the buggers!

We've changed the colour scheme, the house is still white - instead of the shutters being forest green they are now a stone colour - very trendy! Must take an after photo *note to self*

Saturday was shopping and a bit of a knees up on Saturday night at the club. Sunday was a sleep in and recovery kind of day in preparation for the Rock2Wgtn concert that night! We caught the train into town along with 20,000 other bogans *grin* and rocked the night away to Poison, Whitesnake and Ozzy Osbourne. Was pretty good, the Weta Workshop Dragon was fantastic - had green lasers shooting out of its eyes and made an awesome show around the stadium. We didnt get home until 1:00am!

Monday was up early again and this time Leenie and Bill went for a 2 hr motorbike ride around the Bay's. Craig's back has still been giving him some jip so he decided not to aggravate anything. The weather was fabulous this past weekend. Typical, Leenie packs away most of her summer wardrobe and now the latest reports are summer will be here until May! Definately shouldnt complain about that one.

Leenie has a new boss at work - had a two and a half hour intro meeting with him on Tuesday - nice welcome back to work after 10 days off! NOT!

Had to make note that while Leenie has clocked up 1,200 kms on her new motorbike, Craig has clocked up 10,000kms on his harley ... pretty impressive stuff. We'll be clocking up a few more kms this coming weekend - escorting Captain Hurricane around town again (keep an eye on the telly - we will get on the field one day!) and then heading up to Levin for a poker run on Saturday.

Whew - been busy. Feel it too. Time for bed.