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Penelope week 11
June 2nd, 2009 · No Comments · Baby, The Eleanor
I really need to be better at this updating thing. Day 11 to Week 11. A lot happened in between. We went to Washington DC a couple times, and Florida, and Penny kept getting cuter and cuter. But I am going to focus on the past week.
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Penny’s new trick
April 20th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Baby, The Eleanor
Some friends got us this swell bouncy seat, and Penelope hasn’t really like it so far (although could be kept occupied for a bit if you turned the seat vibration thing on) but today she seemed to figure out how to get it to rock on her own, which also makes the cute animals swing. [...]
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The Eleanor! The Honeymoon! Day 21!
January 15th, 2008 · No Comments · The Eleanor
Saturday January 12, 2008
Queenstown to Auckland to LA to NYC (it’s a 40 hour day!)
Sunny and nice is Queenstown
Don’t want to know what it is in NYC
We finish packing, trying to distribute the weight of the wine bottles throughout the bags so we don’t get hit with an overweight charge, and hang out in town [...]
Tags: NZ
The Eleanor! The Honeymoon! Day 20!
January 15th, 2008 · No Comments · The Eleanor
Friday, January 11, 2008
Doubtful Sound to Queenstown
Hot. Just plain hot. But not humid
We are arisen at the crack of dawn, well 7am, by the engines turning on as we get moving in the morning. We explore the sound a bit more, going down a very calm arm where the water is still enough to see [...]
Tags: Doubtful Sound·NZ
The Eleanor! The Honeymoon! Day 19!
January 15th, 2008 · No Comments · The Eleanor
Thruday January 10, 2008
Queenstown to Doubtful Sound
Sunny and hot
For our last trip, we drive about 2 hours to Manipouri, a small town at the edge of Lake Manipouri and Fjordland. Yes, finally we are in prime LOTR country, and its quite pretty on our drive, in a endless pasture with lots of mountains kind of [...]
Tags: Doubtful Sound·NZ
The Eleanor! The Honeymoon! Day 18!
January 15th, 2008 · No Comments · The Eleanor
Wednesday January 9 2008
QueenstownWanaka – canyoning
Hot hot hot
We have an early morning as we have to drive back to Wanaka by 9 to get on another bus for 40 more minutes of driving, 20 of them down horrid dirt roads going at breakneck speeds past very large cattle and sheep stations.
The Eleanor! The Honeymoon! Day 17!
January 15th, 2008 · No Comments · The Eleanor
Tuesday January 8 2008
Queenstown (wine/river surfing)
Hot, cloudless blue sky.
Yesterday afternoon we finally got around to planning our time in QT (as they call it) and our first priority was a canyoning trip, which seems to be caving, but above ground – it’s the same mix of stuff - repelling, climbing, waist deep rivers and adding [...]
Tags: NZ·river surfing·wine
The Eleanor! The Honeymoon! Day 16!
January 15th, 2008 · No Comments · The Eleanor
Monday January 7, 2008
Fox Glacier to Queenstown
Rain rain go away! OK, it did.
The clouds from yesterday opened up overnight and it poured and poured and poured overnight. It has let up a bit but it is still fairly wet. We head out early for the drive over the Haast Pass to Queenstown. Although sun and [...]
Tags: NZ·Queenstown·The Bunker
The Eleanor! The Honeymoon! Day 15!
January 14th, 2008 · No Comments · The Eleanor
Sunday January 6, 2008
Punakaiki to Fox Glacier
Sunny and nice
We have a relatively early start as we have a goal today. But of course, there is time to stop en route at the ‘make your own knife place’. Sadly it is an all day thing, which is something we do not have. Instead we press forward, [...]
Tags: glacier·helicopter·NZ
The Eleanor! The Honeymoon! Day 14!
January 5th, 2008 · 1 Comment · The Eleanor
Saturday January 5, 2008
Punakaiki
Sunny and hot
Today we go back up the coast for an Adventure. My guide book described it as “not for the faint of heart” and “good physical fitness required”. Well, if you want to catch our interest, this is it. And to top it off, its Caving. Adventure Caving.
The Eleanor! The Honeymoon! Day 13!
January 5th, 2008 · No Comments · The Eleanor
Friday January 4, 2008
Nelson to Punakaiki
Sunny and hot.
We check out but hang around Nelson for a while, checking out some of the galleries that are suppose to be plentiful and fabulous. The first we find is not so great, but the second has a nice show of NZ prints. Nothing catches our eye, but we [...]
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The Eleanor! The Honeymoon! Day 12!
January 5th, 2008 · No Comments · The Eleanor
Thrusday, January 3, 2008
Nelson – Abel Tasman National Park
Sunny and hot
There is a weird quirk of nature that the northwest corner of the South Island gets lots and lots of sunny and is generally far more temperate then it should be. So if it seems that as we have come south its gotten hotter and [...]
The Eleanor! The Honeymoon! Day 11!
January 5th, 2008 · No Comments · The Eleanor
Wednesday January 2, 2008
Blenheim to Nelson
Sunny and Hot
Another lovely DIY breakfast, and we head for a couple more vineyards, it’s a very short drive to Nelson so we have a bit of time. We start with Hunters, which a fairly well known one, the winemaker, Jane Nelson, was named best female winemaker in the world, [...]
The Eleanor! The Honeymoon! Day 10!
January 5th, 2008 · No Comments · The Eleanor
Tuesday Jan. 1 2008
New Years Day
Blenheim
Sunny and quite warm
We have a nice sleep in, befitting the late even, and I cook up dinner. What you say? Why are you cooking? Well, the Cottage has a cute little kitchenette, and when you order breakfast they deliver the makings to the room the night before, croissant and [...]
The Eleanor! The Honeymoon! Day 9
January 5th, 2008 · No Comments · The Eleanor
Mon Dec. 31 2007
New Years Eve
Portage/Picton to Blenheim
Windy, overcast to start.
After a quick load of laundry (backpackers are good for something – namely washing machines) and breakfast (I am starting to think this is not the land of sheep or wine or adventure but of hollandaise sauce – eggs benedict EVERYWHERE) we get back on [...]
The Eleanor! The Honeymoon! Day 8!
January 3rd, 2008 · No Comments · The Eleanor
Sunday Dec. 30 2007
Wellington to Picton/Portage
Sunny and warm
Guess its because it is a Sunday or everyone is on holiday or who knows why, but Wellington is still rather empty, but no trouble cause that just means its much easier drive to the ferry terminal where we drop off the car (after some wrangling to get [...]
Tags: ferry·NZ·Queen Charlotte Track
The Eleanor! The Honeymoon! Day 7!
December 29th, 2007 · No Comments · The Eleanor
Saturday Dec. 29 2007
Napier to Wellington
Fluffy clouds and warm.
Check out and walk to breakfast – the kiwi’s certainly like big breakfasts and love coffee, I think I have the whole flat white thing down – its just a smoother foam then cappacino. We stop in a small gallery with some lovely jewelery and find [...]
Tags: Craggy Range·NZ·Wellington
The Eleanor! The Honeymoon! Day 6!
December 29th, 2007 · No Comments · The Eleanor
Dec. 28 2007
Napier – Hawkes Bay wine region
Sunny and warm…. To start
As is becoming an odd new habit for us, we are out for breakfast by 8:30, and then head down to Hastings and hope the On Yer Bike wine tour has bikes to spare. Luckily they do, and we off biking at about 10:30. [...]
Tags: fish and chips·NZ·wineries
The Eleanor! The Honeymoon! Day 5!
December 29th, 2007 · No Comments · The Eleanor
Dec. 27 2007
Rotorua to Napier via. Taupo.
Sunny. Time for sunscreen
Up nice and early again and head out, the drive to Napier is only about 2.5 hours, but there are lots of cool stops on the way. And the best news? Alex is starting to feel better! Yeah! The first stop we make is a geothermal [...]
Tags: Craggy Range·geothermal·NZ
The Eleanor! The Honeymoon! Day 4!
December 29th, 2007 · No Comments · The Eleanor
Dec. 26 2007 – Boxing Day
Rotorua
Sunny in the morning, rain showers later, chilly
Today we begin our adventures, but not till we have breakfast. And the advantage with going to bed at 10pm? Getting up at 8am without an alarm clock. We wander a bit in Rotorua a bit, since things are actually open, at least [...]