Feb 6th: Today is a public holiday in NZ. Waitangi Day marks the signing on 6th February 1840 of a peace treaty between the Pakeha (white settlers) and the Maori. It seems there was some misunderstanding about what was being signed and so the treaty is disputed to this day. Anyway, we still schooled in the morning. We finished studying Japan by making origami samurai warrior hats, got a bit carried away and now have an army of samurai teddies and other soft toys! Steve is on-call today and all weekend, but by lunchtime it was getting hot so I took the boys to the pool to play for a couple of hours. Steve is introducing his friend Gordon to flying model aeroplanes (this morning) and helicopters (now) and has taken the boys with him while I'm cooking dinner.
You might like to know that in NZ on a public holiday cafes and restaurants can charge a "public holiday surcharge" of 15%! We bought ice-creams on New Year's Day and had 15% added on the normal price. We avoided buying anything today!
The picture is of Peter seemingly standing on water, but if you look carefully you can see the blue floating mat under his feet. He was pretending to be a pirate and kept raiding the mats the boys and I were playing on.
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