Friday 14th August: Cold and grey wth a chilly wind. This morning began with the usual piano lessons, which went well. The boys are very god and keeping themselves busy and quiet in the room while one of the others is having a lesson. We are at Ruth's house for over an hour but they enjoy hearing each other play. Usually they have maths to get on with, but as this week we aren't schooling they all chose something to take along and get on with. Edward loves origami so was busy folding boxes and birds; Peter was making a sticker picture of Kung Fu Panda characters; and Jonathan did some drawing and read a book.
We popped in home to drop off their books then scooted down to town to pick up some food shopping for the weekend. From 11am we were sat in the town raffle booth for an hour. Each Firday a charity or local group sits in a booth on the main street opposite the bank and sells tickets for a raffle it has organised the prizes for. Town is busy on a Friday and most passers-by will spend $2 on a page of numbers. Today's raffle was for the Playcentre. Edward was happily in charge of taking money and giving change, and Peter and Jonathan enjoyed chatting with customers.
At 12 we finshed there and rushed home for lunch and to pack the motorhome. The boys and I went off to Tekapo once we were ready. Once we got to Cave it was mild and sunny the rest of the way.
We set up camp at Tekapo and Peter found a deep muddy puddle by the motorhome (see photo) that he could not resist the temptation to wallow in. But then that's what wellies are made for! We all walked down to play on the lakeshore (see second photo) and collected some pine cones before cooking tea. The boys were off in bed by the time Steve arrived in the truck after work.
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