Sandcastles

A couple of weeks ago Christchurch held the Inaugural New Zealand Sandcastle Competition at New Brighton beach. Sadly it wasn't the best weather that weekend with a strong wind on the Saturday keeping numbers down and heavy rain on the Sunday but we got along for a look on the Saturday and were quite impressed with some of the creations.

It wouldn't be New Zealand without a rugby reference

Ewan plays in the sea

While Finlay has his spade ready for his sandcastle

Although the wind wasn't great for sandcastles, at least someone made the most of it

Cameron turns 9

Last month was Cameron's 9th birthday. He was rapidly outgrowing his bike which he had had for about 4 years so he got a shiny new bike. So plenty more bike rides for the rest of the summer
A few days later we took him and a few friends to a pizza restaurant in Ferrymead near the estuary (they used to have a restaurant in the centre of town but that was damaged in the September quake. Then they moved to a new site across from one of the squares in the centre of town but that was destroyed in the February quake, but the Ferrymead branch is pretty good!) The kids all got to make their own pizzas, with us not having to clean up the mess!