Rippon Winery and Vineyard

A visit to my favorite Wanaka winery, Rippon.  

Kayaking on Lake Wanaka

An afternoon paddle on Lake Wanaka with our friends Nicole and Scott, what fun to be a tourist!

Queenstown

Queenstown, one of those places that takes your breath away every time.....  

We all took some rides on the Luge, Dan even caught air on the fast track, Josh and I raced around slow folks and Ben managed to navigate on his own.

Rocky Mount

A few snap shots from an amazing hike up Rocky Mount, we had intended on just walking up to the look out, but Josh decided that we were all going to the very top, so off we went.  The boys have reached a new milestone with where they can hike to, as the hike was about a 1200 foot elevation gain and we managed to do the loop in about 2 1/2 hours.

Otago Settlers Museum

Before we left Dunedin earlier this week we went for a visit to the recently revamped Otago Settlers Museum, which was a fabulous museum (seriously like night and day from the old version, which I'd visited years ago).   Josh commented that the caravan looks just like ours and Ben was in awe of the computer the size of a room (bottom right photo).   

And it's always a treat to see the history in downtown Dunedin.

Puzzling World and Lake Wanaka

Fun and games at Puzzling World in Wanaka.  We successfully made it out of the maze.

And the boys on the banks of Lake Wanaka.

greetings from dunedin

Greetings from Dunedin... the boys would tell you their top thing was the Cadbury World Tour, Dan would tell you it was the mountain bike riding with Glenn and I'd probably say the peninsula.  It's been a joy to hanging out the Symons.