Christmas
The kids were a bit concerned that Santa's slay needs snow to land, and they were still holding out hope that it would snow right up to Christmas day. However, in New Zealand Father Christmas (aka Santa) looks like this: no shirt and BBQ-ing (as modeled here by my holiday time beverage of choice). All Christmas trees are white pines or even the pohutukawa, the New Zealand Christmas tree, no fancy spruce or fir down here!
It rained on Christmas Day, but no worries because we had plenty of Lego to build. For the 12 days following it's been smoking hot (25-30C).
We had Christmas at my parents' house and I decided it would be fun for me to run there through the forest. Shawn drove the kids over in the car and we told them it was a 'race'. It took me 56 minutes to complete the run and I think I probably lost by about 1hr 6 mins (I had to get dressed and lock up after they left). The kids surprised me by jumping out from behind the trees with axes and pitchforks. Here's map of what I think the route was. I guess, 'run' isn't really the word for it: there's quite a bit of elevation change and I'm not fit enough to run it. It's also pretty hot these days, which is also slowing me down. On our return from Christmas, it was Shawn's turn to run home, but with all the rain on Christmas day he ran further up into the forest to access some of the trails that we thought would likely be drier.
In the few days leading up to Christmas, Mathieu produced this art:
I added the photos to help our ECEs out since they had not heard of Nexo Knights, and Mathieu was in awe of my powerpoint skills when I showed him my additions. So, that's the backstory to the Christmas gift pictured below, the Nexo Knight's Fortrex: it was quite the undertaking to build it. It was finished early boxing day after having been worked on for most of Christmas day. Hope you all had a wonderful holidays too!
It rained on Christmas Day, but no worries because we had plenty of Lego to build. For the 12 days following it's been smoking hot (25-30C).
We had Christmas at my parents' house and I decided it would be fun for me to run there through the forest. Shawn drove the kids over in the car and we told them it was a 'race'. It took me 56 minutes to complete the run and I think I probably lost by about 1hr 6 mins (I had to get dressed and lock up after they left). The kids surprised me by jumping out from behind the trees with axes and pitchforks. Here's map of what I think the route was. I guess, 'run' isn't really the word for it: there's quite a bit of elevation change and I'm not fit enough to run it. It's also pretty hot these days, which is also slowing me down. On our return from Christmas, it was Shawn's turn to run home, but with all the rain on Christmas day he ran further up into the forest to access some of the trails that we thought would likely be drier.
In the few days leading up to Christmas, Mathieu produced this art:
I added the photos to help our ECEs out since they had not heard of Nexo Knights, and Mathieu was in awe of my powerpoint skills when I showed him my additions. So, that's the backstory to the Christmas gift pictured below, the Nexo Knight's Fortrex: it was quite the undertaking to build it. It was finished early boxing day after having been worked on for most of Christmas day. Hope you all had a wonderful holidays too!
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