Keeping up with the Aitchisons: The last few months

It's been quite a while since the last update. We haven't been as active over winter but here's a few things we've done in the last few months.

Christchurch's main rugby stadium, having just had a $60 million upgrade for the rugby world cup, was damaged beyond repair by the earthquakes. So a new stadium was built for this season's rugby at a site not far from us. They held an open day back in April which the boys went along to.

The boys cast an eye over the stadium

Finlay puts in a tackle on the playing surface

Christchurch is home to the Antarctic operations of several countries and has a visitor centre near the airport.
The kids watching some swimming penguins

Finlay chilling out

Then finding somewhere a little warmer

While his brothers enjoy the ice slide

In June we had a large dump of snow in the city closing schools for a couple of days.

Other than that we have just been getting on with life as the city slowly gets back to its feet. So far that has mostly involved demolition with very little building going on but with all the empty spaces being left there is room for some clever people to have some fun.

With all the vacant spaces in the central city parking is no longer a problem!