Orewa - Fireworks night

On fireworks night we headed up to Orewa to meet with our friends Duncan and Katrina.  Firstly we enjoyed the fire brigade show which had an exploding car, hence Oli's hilarious reaction.  It was extremely hot and we had to move in the end, scary stuff. There was also a demo with a kitchen and putting water on the burning pan, this created a long discussion with Alex. There was a fair to explore but in the end fish and chips was too much of a temptation.  Snapper is lovely.   On our way back home we stopped to watch the big fire work display and it didn't disappoint.  Tom and Alex loved it, Oli fell asleep as it was gone nine o'clock. He is always asleep by that time, wonder if he will stay awake for disney fireworks, surely? 

Clip and Climb

We bought a daily do deal for half price which is the 'rage' in NZ at the moment.  There are lots of companies doing daily deals and its fantastic as it encourages you to give something a go i.e. tree adventures and clip and climb.  To be honest, I wasn't looking forward to it as I imagined that it was a couple of climbing walls and nothing else.  I couldn't be more wrong.  It was amazing.  They have an ingenious idea of an automatic support rope which means they don't need an adult to help them climb, they are free to roam.
The climbs are really varied in difficulty and style, which means they could climb some.  Their favourites were the dark tower (in a tower which was completely dark), a ladder where they jumped off and jumping from one cylinder to another which goes higher.

We ran out of time, which is always a good sign of enjoying yourself, so we will be back!