Fathers Day 2020

Fathers Day 2020.  Just thinking that this is the 3rd country and 4th city where we have lived celebrating Fathers Day 

We set up some bird feeders int he backyard.  Mostly small sparrows and small yellow bird and some larger birds eat off the ground

We see and hear this Tui bird in the trees.  Not sure what to put out to try and attract them to the feeders

Drama and Musical Theater

Dani has been doing drama musical theater classes. Drama is on Thursday after school and  and Musical Theater is on Friday afternoon.

The Devonport Drama Hall where they practice is next door to her school.

The Lion King

Aladdin

Cats

Annie

Annie 

Drama Class

The Hobbit

Auckland Aquarium

Dani and I rode the e-bike to the Auckland aquarium  on Saturday.  We took the ferry across and then a 4 mile bike ride on a bike path along the water.  After we went to Mission Bay which is a nice suburb of Auckland.   

We bought a yearly family pass for the Aquarium as seems like a nice day trip we can do a few times.

The penguins were very interested in Dani's stuffed penguin

Fish feeding

They had cool people mover that goes around in a big circle to watch the sharks and sting rays

 

The beach and Playground at Mission Bay

https://www.missionbay.co.nz/

Zip Line

Walking to School

Dani's school is located on the other side of Victoria Mountain.  She gives a guided tour of the 5 minute walk to school

Arriving at School and meeting her best friend Evelyn

Grace took this photo and below video when picking Dani up

Dani started playing on the Devonport Primary netball team. The practices are Tuesday morning at 8:00 am and the games will be on Saturday morning starting the end of July.

First Practice

Dani Back to School

After 7 weeks of lock down Dani returned to school on May 18 so now back for three weeks.  NZ has had no new cases of COV19 for the past 13 days and things are about back to normal.  The borders will remain pretty much closed for some time

Dani's happy to wear her many outfits returning to school

At the bottom of our driveway

Grace wearing the same shirt Dani is wearing.  Now they can share clothes

We went out for a bike ride around town and got caught in the rain

The top of Victoria mountain behind our house.

Looking up North.  The street to the right running North is Lake Road it the only street out of the peninsula.  A lot of traffic on a two lane road with lights so good we do not have to drive on it often. We drive so little that one tank of gas lasts a few months.  This is good since filling up the tank here costs about $100 USD. Gas is not cheap.

Dani with some new friends sisters we met bike riding during the lock down.  The parents are both in the Navy and the mother is captain of the big navy ships

Dad's Birthday- 54

Dad's 54th birthday.  Dani had some friends over and we Grace made a chocolate cake.  Just like Costco

Amalee and Jack are living next door to us.  The family was living in Toronto and had to return due to COV19.   Good to for Dani to have friends next door though the girl is only 5 so a little young.

Jack Dancing

The girls dancing

With Eshra and Tovi.  The granddad John moved out from next door so we won't be seeing to much anymore which is sad.