New Year’s Singstar BBQ

On New Year’s Eve, we went to Aunt Swee’s house to BBQ and countdown for 2008! Played Singstar, a bit of cricket, the men played mah jong and had a nice dinner.. oh… and we trampolined!

tramp!

Well…that’s it from the New Year’s crew… back again on the 31st December 08! Bring on ‘08~

A new obsession..

Okay, it’s not really MY obsession because it’s really Bronwyn’s, bbuuttttt I love it too… Can you guess what I’m talking about??????

….Snoopy!! I’ve been reading up on him in the past few days (and his comics )
Here’s a comic strip..

Woodstock!

Click on the picture below to use it as your desktop wallpaper

You can use this one too for Spring… even though that would be a long way away!

Enjoy Snoopy! You’ll be seeing more of him in later posts!

And… if you want to see more of Snoopy…click HERE

Christmas in the Park

So… on the day Lydia and Yeye arrived, it was time to get into a bit of the “Christmas Spirit”!.. What better than to go to XMAS in the park? so Vincent, Lydia, Bronwyn & me packed up the picnic rug, some chips, choc and water and were set to go! it was packed!! with what was estimated to be… around 200,000 people!!

had a good night and enjoyed the music! xmas in the park ‘08 …get ready!

Sushi Night!! WOO!!

Sushi night was delicious as usual! Yummy… had a wasabi fiesta (well..not me, but everyone else)!! the video shows vincent & mamak on a wasabi showdown!! thanks to the great chefs and kitchen hands

My mum., the sushi roller/wrapper/fix-er-upper

Jeez Lydia…hungry?

Hamilton Gardens!

These gardens were pretty cool! I loved the Italian Renaissance best… have a flick through the pictures of our morning in Hamilton.

Chinese Garden

Italian Renaissance Garden

Taupo

We loved Taupo! Walking around the lake in the afternoon sun was really cool! AND Taupo is the home of BUNGY!!! Check out these pics of Bronwyn, Vincent & Chris doing the bungy!

…Well , what you can see of them anyway.

Camping

We were all super excited about staying out in a tent, but first of all we had to set it up in our backyard. It was difficult following the instructions, but after a LLONNGGGG while, we finally managed to assemble the 6 person tent to all its full glory.

After some fun and games in it (playing cards) with Siew Lee jeh jeh in it, a long afternoon and a midnight movie (Enchanted), we were finally ready for bed.
We spent two nights sleeping in the tent and when it was time to bring it down, we did so with most hesitation. This is what it looked like…

Western Springs

We visited this park as part of our Auckland Sightseeing day trip and enjoyed the views Western Springs had to offer. We fed the birds and discovered some hidden talent in the family in the form of photography! Who would have guessed?

Time for some “Pro” photography…

This style of ‘trees in clouds’ effect has been officially copyrighted by none other than the famous photographer Ivy Koh…

Very PRO©

Rotorua

Home to the stink bombs, luge, gondolas and zorbs! Guaranteed fun to the max~
So we landed in our motel rooms first and check out the bed sheets!
We looked out and saw a pool! Yee har!! We would definitely we be in it later!

Got back into our cars and went to the zorb site. Um… a bit disappointed we all were, so we got some groceries headed home and BBQed by the pool. Jumped into the pool and had some water fun!

Next day was luging day! Up the gondolas and onto the scenic & advanced track – calling for pictures…

We also went to the Lady Knox show & Geothermal Wonderland. Not many words could be used to describe such a place apart from stinky, rotten eggs & beautiful.

Forest Laser Tag

On the way back from Rotorua to Auckland, we stopped at an activity site to play some Forest Laser Tag. We listened to the rules, put our fancy gear on and were ready to go!

Before effects of Forest Laser Tag

After Effects

…*Sigh*…