For Connor's birthday on Sunday we took him to Rainbow's End, a theme park in Auckland that I remember going to when I was a teenager, it's been around for a while! We had a fantastic day, mostly spent in the children's section on the little roller coaster and smaller rides and bouncy castle, but really enjoyed going out to see the big rides, and can't wait til they're big enough to go on them!! We were there for most of the day, and at lunchtime they had an amazing Chinese Acrobatic troupe to entertain us. They were incredible, some of them rivaled the acts we saw at Dralion (Cirque de Soleil), a great unexpected treat, except the boys have been trying to copy some of their moves!






























I particularly liked the rides that parents were allowed to accompany them on!





























The night before on Halloween Bruce and I went to our friend Rick's 40th birthday party, a huge event which was great fun. The dress code was 'bloody well', so this was how we went.