Weekly update

Hi all, doesn't time fly, Tuesday already. Robin and Dean just headed off for friends in Hawera for a couple of days before calling in at Geof and Liz in Auckland on way home. Out and about a bit over the weekend visiting Palmerston North and the wind farm, Waikanae and Paraparaumu and Wellington yesterday. Pic taken outside Te Papa with a backdrop of some street art. They look as though they have been dropped from a great height, but are mirrors stuck to partially blown up rubber airbags. http:\\tepapa.co.nz check out this link to find out more about Te Papa.

Finished decorating bedroom in time for visitors and it looks good.2 more to go!!Ordered mirror wardrobe doors but they are 3 weeks away. Will help make room seem bigger. Starting to organise trip away in van during school holidays-probably meeting up with couple in New Plymouth and then another couple for the second week somewhere between Wanganui and Hawera. Hope the weather is more settled than recently. 

Scary stuff going on in Christchurch, hard to believe how much damage and how people there are going to manage over next months and possibly years getting back to some sort of normality. Apart from the obvious buildings falling down there has been a huge amount of damage to ordinary homes where the ground has liquefied and big cracks appeared in roads,back yards, lawns, and right through the middle of houses.Many houses will have to be demolished. A lot of people cant go back to work due to damaged workplaces so it is hard to know how they will get paid. Some large businesses have said they will pay them , others will have insurance but a lot of small businesses will just close. I guess we are just relieved it was there and not in our backyard!!