Been a bit slack in keeping this going I suppose. Anyhow, last week we had a family trip up to Christchurch for Oscar's christening and birthday party combination. I had been on call, so worked the previous weekend, which gives me a long weekend afterwards. A good thing that enables us to get away for more than just a night.

We arrived on the Friday and were staying in a cottage/house just on the outskirts of the CBD. A pretty good location really, close to the park if the weather was good. Justin, Kath & Emma were staying with us as well and we were all looking forward to seeing them.

The christening and birthday party were on Saturday and there had been lots of preparations for quite some time. Jo had made 2 delicious cakes and iced them and everything was going to plan. In all it went very smoothly and despite the wet weather everyone seemed to have a good time. The little people certainly did. The only drawback was that we weren't able to spend as much time with people as we would have liked. Part of the problem of visiting another city and wanting to catch up with people as well as have the party.

Sunday was Nana Vere's birthday and turned into a beautifully warm day with bright sunshine; so we went to a beach restaurant in Sumner. It was all quite enchanting and the little people behaved themselves impeccably!

We then had a pleasant drive back down to home on Monday, although the weather deteriorated all along the trip. But that did not detract from the fact that we had a great weekend away and we both think that Christchurch is a nice place to visit but we don't miss living there at all.