Jan 14th: Another hot sunny day! The boys schooled in the morning and had another swimming lesson at lunch time. They are doing really well at their swimming and are happy doing dolphin dives under the water and now trying to breathe as they do front crawl. After lunch we took our bikes to Victoria Park, a large landscaped park about a 5-10 minute from our house. This is a busy place with many different things to see and do - this is where Cubs and Scouts meet, there is a bowling club, a campground, a fabulous children's playground, wallabies, peacocks and a 400m asphalt velodrome with an athletics area in the centre. This photo is of part of the track. Once a year there is a cycling event here, and that comes up at the end of this month. I'm not quite sure how pure a cycling event this is as I hear there is also highland dancing and welly-throwing going on, but I'm not sure if you have to do all three at the same time as each other. Tune in at the start of February to find out how it all turned out! The rest of the year our boys can be found pedalling furiously round the track, especially Jonathan who has a tiny bike and no gears and so his legs have to go at lightning speed!
Are the Fishes the only residents of the South Island ...where is everyone ?
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