This summer has been really hot with temperatures hitting 40 degrees in Christchurch in January. Of course, that was until Mum and Dot stepped off the plane. It rained most of the time they were here but in the dry bits in between we managed to get them out to see a few of the sights. Up the Port Hills...

then down to the beach at Sumnereven catching the end of the Coast to Coast race (I'll tell you all about that in a year or two once I've done it (really!)

The day after we went to Akaroa on the Banks Peninsula