It's rained most days for the last few weeks, with a small lake appearing in the back garden every few days.
So while the weather has been rubbish we've been finding things to do inside. May in New Zealand is Music Month, when there is heavy publicising of NZ music through concerts and gigs, a lot of which is free. At the weekends there have been performances at some of the local libraries, so a couple of weeks ago we went to New Brighton library, which is on the pier.
The music was pretty good but what really got us was the surfers. It was horrible weather with the temperatures in single figures yet there were more than a dozen black figures bobbing up and down in the surf waiting for the big waves. Absolutely mad! Although with the weather being so terrible there were some pretty big waves. 
After that we went inside to a kids play area where the boys could run around and make as much noise as they liked. Finlay didn't do much running obviously but seemed to enjoy it.
