Saturday

Afternoon with the boys in the Redwoods, near Rotorua; 

while the girls were swimming on the lake....

Pitbull - Fireball

Homework (by Mano)

Family Haiku-time

Jean
Clever, caring and very strong
Jean is in the middle
but by far the most daring

Lisa
Lisa is the most mature
She is the oldest
She is quiet and reads lots

Surprise
Surprise is the newest one
Mystery is him
Has yet to grow and mature

Laurence
With a good sense of humour
witty aunt Laurence
supports the whole family

Julien
Big, strong, the man of the house
intimidating
but is loving, a good cook

:-)

Dinner outside

And back to school since Tuesday...

Yay - green

Sunny house

Et le dimanche soir....

Petit Ours brun mange des tartines du petit dejeuner.
Ici c'etait gaufres et apres bataille de glacon.
Chacun a donne un coup de main a faire la vaiselle pour jouer un peu plus tard (a Minecraft).
Une amie qui a dormi a la maison samedi, deux copains qui sont venus passer le dimanche aprem. ici.
Ca a saute sur le trampoline.
J'ai chope un max de virus informatique en essayna tde telecharger "amerzone" un jeu ou on decouvre un monde pour trouver un oiseau fantastique....
J'essaierai encore.

Je vous aime.
Tous(tes)


PS: bon Carl, pour le power point, c'est pas gagne...

Walking in the dark by streams

End of the school's holiday at McLaren's Falls.

Torch lamp, glow worm and rock hopping.

Had to go get a blanket though...

Seen in churches

Slytherin (Sepentar) vs Management

Free Mason's eye all lit up 

I know, it looks so cool!

The famous cistern

Here you can see the hole from where people used to draw water using buckets.

All hand carved! 

Guess where #4

Back in Basilicata, our last Unesco site...

Have to confess that when we aprked the car, none of the follwoing was visible and I was a little dismayed...

People here have carved their homes and built the second largest water cistern in the world (holding a staggering 5 million cm3)

People lived here until very recently through the hardship of no running water supply.

 Rupestrian curches

Guess where #1

Flourishing trading city between the 6th and the 10th century. Rival to Pisa and Genoa, since Venice wasn't as big yet. 

Maimed by a tsunami in 1343. This place is classed as a Unesco world heritage site.

Can you guess which city this is?

Winding the coastline to discover this

Entering the city to see Capucchino monasteries,

the statue of Flavio Gioia ,maybe from this city, who intented the compass.

 And an amazing network of streets running between and under houses. Sure sheltering from the dazzling sun.

 Lemons, chillies, thyme, aubergines, zucchinies, tomatoes.

 Limoncello country :-)

Still shining through

Grand-mere t'es la meilleure

Merci qu'est-ce que c'est bien le temps ensemble!!!!

Kaiate Falls (wink to Rachel)

Mt Maunganui

Same, different fish

One dip in the ocean, one!!!

hihihi

Mano et Jean a Dubai

"one direction"

Going to Wellington!!!!

Last glance at the Mountains...

:-)

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:-)

Mano and Julien are the chefs!!!!

Yay