New Year's Eve Walk

This was taken around 2pm on NYE looking north to muriwai. tough walk on rough terrain, not really one of our wisest decisions but the views were spectacular. i think the blog is now more or less up to date. it is 10am on 2 january now. toby has gone surfing at long last - first session in a couple of weeks - and mia and i have done the supermarket run plus a quick trip to the warehouse. she has just gone down for a nap. nothing planned today. toby wants to go and see casino royale but we will have to take it in turns or wait a week or two and ask doug and audrey to babysit. we hope to have a couple of day trips this week, one up to whangerei and nearby beaches and we are trying to track down a pet corner/jesmond dene type place for mia to see some animals. we are now wondering if the "pukeko in a pongo tree" was such a good idea. we have had to hide the book this morning as she keeps picking it up and demanding we sing it to her! monday 8th brings a return to work for me but loads of my colleagues are using up their leave so it will be very quiet for the first week. i plan to update my cv and prepare for my new staff. countdown to our departure now i guess. still waiting for news on rehoming of frank and arnie but once that happens it will be all systems go and we will get our flights sorted etc etc. haven't been able to send off mia's passport application yet as we needed her nz passport for vanuatu. should get it done this week though, application is all ready, just need to check over it, add payment and post it off.