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posted by Sharon, Ben, Louise and Daniel @ 1:00 pm 1 comments

Our last week in Lyttelton

Our last week came around all too quickly.

It started with our leaving party at the school last Sunday, our year in the South Island has been centred around the school so it was kind of John Thawley to let us use the library. Rosie and Liza had decorated the place and we had a lovely autumn afternoon, the kids were able to play outside and organised a game of soccer against the adults. About 60 of our friends turned up and everyone brought photos and we made an album up on the spot.

Mid week and the house got packed up … we’re getting quite good at doing this bit now!

For the rest of the week, we stayed with our friends Julie and Steve, Morgan and Lily back in Lyttelton. Anne has hardly left my side all week as we try to cram in as much time as possible together. Wednesday lunchtime and Ben had a BBQ at work to say farewell - he was given some duty free vouchers and also came home on Friday with his laptop (in lieu of a few hours work!!!). Louise and Daniel were both given a certificate with photos and signatures from all their friends and had a bit of a party at school on Friday.

I went out for a drink with my girl friends on Friday night, down at the Lava Bar - Rosie, Kim, Sue, Carey, Anne and Julie - we had lots of laughs.

On Saturday we spent the afternoon with the Rossies (Liza has taught both Louise and Daniel and we had Christmas with them at Rapaki) so that Louise could play with Lucy and then in the evening we stayed with Rosie, had a lovely meal and a last game of late night cards. This morning before leaving I dropped in to see Anne - we both howled - he has written me a lovely note, well actually the cast and ideas for a movie script of our life in Lyttelton - hilarious. We are lucky to have made so many friends.

friends from Lyttelton
views around Lyttelton, Mt Pleasant and Sumner
Tamaki village

Finally on Saturday we drove through the tunnel and out of Lyttelton for the last time and spent the afternoon on the beach in Kaikoura and then on to Picton ready for the ferry journey across to the North Island.

posted by Sharon, Ben, Louise and Daniel @ 11:26 am 0 comments