Wairere Falls and Christmas

 

Another lovely day today. We have been over 30 degrees over the last 3 days, but it is a little cooler today, which is very pleasant.

We had a lovely day at Eddie's niece's house near Taupo on Christmas Day. There was 16 of us for dinner. It is a really lovely new home with great views. Sorry, I didn't take any pictures. I had a phone free day.

We ended up staying the night and came home on Boxing Day. We had our granddaughter with us. She is up from Dunedin again. We have been sharing her with her other Grandma here in Matamata.

I took her up to the look out on Wairere Falls last Thursday. The falls are quite full. I was a bit surprised as I didn't think we have had that much rain. It must be raining more in the Kaimai Ranges than down on the flat. I did take photos here.

Wairere Falls in full flow

Me and Abbey at the lookout

We went to Katikati to visit friends on Monday, as it was his 70^th birthday. We had a lovely day with them and a lot of other people. Some we knew, some we didn't, but lots of fun and laughter. We were going to go to Ngaruawahia yesterday for more visiting, but they rang on Monday night to say don't come as Alan had woken up in the night with a fever and a cough. He was off to get a covid test. Fingers crossed he is ok.

Eddie has got some sealant that he is going to paint over the roof to make sure we are really and truly waterproof. It is one of the projects he has in mind for the holidays. He also wants to get the truck all nice and cleaned up for the new year. He is making a start on that today.

We got the fridge back on Friday. It was ready earlier in the week, but we couldn't be bothered going over after work. Eddie took Friday off and went over to Hamilton to get it. A friend helped him to put it inside, so when I got home, it was all done.