Birthday boy

Alex was 7 on Saturday. We had planned to head into the mountains up to Arthur's Pass but the weather was dire. Instead we went to the QE2 centre for a swim. It's a vast swimming complex; 50m pool, 25m pool, wave pool, kiddy pool and hydroslides. Me (C), A and S spent an hour on the slides...well Alex spent about 10 mins there..Shannon and I were running up the 5 storey's of stairs to shoot down the twisting turning slides..some in an earie glow, some in pitch darkness. My legs ached for 2 days from the exertion but it was great fun.

In the afternoon we went to The Palms mall and saw Shark Boy and Lava Girl 3D at the cinema. The malls are great, not exactly new to us coming from MK, except they have a central eating area where you can pick from a variety of food vendors. Bami Goreng from the Hungry Wok is a firm favourite, but a bit too spicy for the girls.

On Sunday we went to a breakfast bbq, which is just like having it in the afternoon except you have bacon eggs etc and it leaves the afternoon free to go to the beach! Was really hot and got a mild bit of sunburn.

Sunday bedtime and the tooth fell out...and the tooth fairy does visit here and leaves a dollar (obviously she has no idea of the exchange rate!).