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Up at 8am today – thanks to Sophie for the alarm call! She has been as good as gold on this trip (well, most of the time) and has only been grumpy when we have kept her in her car seat for too long or not let her sleep when she was due for a nap.
We looked at some ‘open’ houses yesterday and got a bit of an idea of how much we could get for our money. Surprisingly (we thought) houses on the hillside are cheaper than those on the valley floor. Despite the fact that there are better schools, it is Read the rest of this entry »

We all got up around 8am this morning. Sophie slept well in our bed, Mum didn’t sleep so good – in a little ball in the left hand corner of the bed. Kids hey?!
After having breakfast together looking out over the hillside we went for a lovely walk up the hills in Korokoro (where we met some donkeys along the way). I must admit having Sophie asleep in her new sling didn’t help. I was wheezing all the better the whole way up. When we got to the top there was a 360 degree view of Lower Hutt, Petone, over to Upper Hutt and even Wellington. The views were breathtaking… or was that just from carrying dear princess Sophie? The weather here is pretty overcast now. I am sat here in Read the rest of this entry »



