Soccer Champs!

On Saturday 21st July Findlay's soccer team took part in a 7th Grade soccer festival in Nelson. They had a great time. It was a pretty exhausting morning - 5 games of 15 minutes, some without a rest between so they were all pretty tired by the end. Their results were a bit mixed - won 2, drew 2 and lost the last one which was a shame. If they had drawn the last game they would have got into the semi- finals but by that time they were all exhausted so it was maybe as well that they didn't. Their coach - Shannon, is only 16 but is pretty committed to the team and does his best to control eight 7 year olds. All the boys got a certificate and even Tom won the Spectator of the Day certificate and a voucher for a free cheese burger at MacDonalds!

Winter holiday 07

This album is powered by BubbleShare - Add to my blog

Le Tour de Rabbit Island

It's the last day of the school winter break and we have another brilliantly clear winters day. Since returning from our week at Raumati Beach the weather has been beautiful - cold in the morning and night (with temperatures down to -2c. degrees) but beautiful sunny and bright during the day. There is heaps of snow on the high mountains in Kahurangi National Park, to the west of Nelson and a dusting on the tops of Mt Starveall and Rintoul, (below), about 10km behind our house.

We watched the first real mountain stage of the Tour de France all morning, (for 4 hours) then after lunch and inspired by the Tour, we loaded up the van and headed out to Rabbit Island. With our bikes unloaded we headed for the safe and relatively quiet gravel roads to the west of the island. We have all had a bit of a cold / cough over the past few weeks, so some good fresh air and exercise was well received. Findlay loves getting out on his bike and is becoming a good confident rider. Tom recorded the afternoon with a new camera his work had bought, so he used the trip to familiarise himself with it. However it was simply "just point and shoot"!

Back to school for Fiona, Niall and Findlay tomorrow.