Here are some more snaps from our trip last week to beautiful Fiji.
Looking from Malololailai to Malolo, the two islands are very close.
Our villa is on the right, very peaceful
View from the deck of our villa at sunset
Early morning was so very peaceful
And another lovely sunset
Sisters at the wedding, relaxing while the bridal party were with photographer
We spent the last 7 days at Musket Cove in Fiji. The occasion was the wedding of my niece Amber and her fiancé Carl. The wedding was beautiful and we had some very happy social occasions with the other guests.
Our days were spent walking, swimming, reading, eating, drinking and just enjoying the beautiful scenery, the peace and the quiet. It was so very relaxing, the weather was hot and humid, everything required of a South Pacific Island!
The shoreline in front of the restaurant – the wedding reception was on this beach under the stars.
Breakfast on the deck of our villa, this was the best part of the day.
Early morning in paradise, so beautiful, so still, so quiet – no traffic jams here!
Sunset wasn’t bad either
Looking back over the bridge to our Villa on the left
No photos but I have to say it seems we have had the best summer weather over the past month – indispered with lots of rain. It as been so warm this weekend – just lovely.
We met up with a cousin today, we all bused into the city ( P & P came as he is also her cousin of course). We had not seen him for 40 or more years so we were not sure we would recognise him! But we found each other as we all started to cross the road to wait outside the Britomart railway station, we looked at each other and asked a question – yes it was him. He was in Auckland for the speedway last night and because he has not been well he has spent the last month travelling around NZ and AUS catching up with cousins on his mothers’side of the family. His mother and our mother were sisters. We had a lovely brunch at the Waterfron Cafe at the Maritime Museum where we just talked and talked catching up on details of the family – how the years have flown by.
He was driving back to Wellington today so all too soon we were busing back over the Harbour Bridge to the North Shore with promises to keep in touch and perhaps plan a family reiunion.
Studidly we never thought to take any photos – we were too busy talking!
And on the subject of family and cousins, we are all off to Fiji soon for a family wedding and are desperately hoping that all this rain and flooding in the tourist area of Fiji is well and truly over. I have just read that now that have a Tropical Cyclone Alert for the next few days – expected to hit the tourist area around Nadi, Denerau etc.
Perhaps in light of what these people in Fiji are going through it is churlish to complain about our summer or lack thereof!
I am loving everything about iPads, iPods etc and think that when I retire I will get myself an
iPhone also!
Bought a new radio, cd player, iPod player, alarm etc etc this morning, takes up half the room of the previous CD player/radio which was only a few years old
I know that my grandson, L, will be green with envy when he sees this!
Went with BG again this year, but this time we went to six Coatesville Gardens. Most were quite vast, all were fantastic, some more so than others. It was a very hot sunny day (a little unusual for Auckland this summer), I did not take photos at all the gardens. The following are from Twin Lakes, this place is open to tours etc and was quite beautiful.
And one more beautiful flower – this was taken at the smallest garden we viewed, but dahlias are my favourite flowers so I had to take a photo of this one!
We have experienced quite wild weather over the past few days. These photos were taken from our deck last night (Friday 17 Feb 2012) looking to the west from East Coast Bays. Fortunately we missed this not so West Auckland!
Feel safe with these two around
Two of my grandsons ready to protect these lovely shores!
Trying out some night photography, think I need to get a tripod so that I can try to get some nice scenic photos etc.
The moon looked crazy, cloud covered part of it but I liked this view over the neighbour’s roof
Ruby has always loved Animal Planet programme with wolves etc so she is fascinated with Frozen Planet
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At last I have access to the photos from Boxing Day -
All the immediate family joined us, grandchildren, sons and daughters-in-law, daughter and boyfriend, ex brother-in-law and partner, cousin and a grandmother from England. We had a great family day, good food, lots of laughs, people snoozing, kids playing, dogs looking for scraps and cuddles – just a great family day.
