Lantern Festival

The same weekend as our bike ride there was the annual Lantern Festival. Held for the last two years in Hagley Park as the usual site of Victoria Square has been out of action since the quakes, it's a really colourful and popular festival, if a bit of a late night for the boys.

 

The Year of the Snake

 

 

Some hippos in the river

 

 

Bike Ride

As we sit here as autumn draws in and we think about starting the fire for the first time this year, it's about time I updated with a few things we have done this summer. It's been great weather all summer (unless you're a farmer, in which case the correct term is drought!) so we've been able to get out and about lots.

We went for a ride around Mcleans Island bike track, a 10K track just outside Christchurch.

Ewan eager to get started

 Big brother all set to lead the way

 Finlay happy to take a back seat

 

 And a war wound to show off!