Finally it was Saturday morning and Bonnie, Lawrence, Amelia and Domenic arrived. Kylie, Chris and Malcolm went to the air port, but as the arrival was at 6:00am we opted to stay at home and prepare breakfast instead!
It was so lovely seeing them all again and we realised that Lawrence hadn’t seen the children for quite a few years as Bonnie has been coming over to NZ without him a few times as he had to work.
Bonnie brought Christmas presents for the children and a bread maker for Papa M…
What a great present. Bonnie and Malcolm went to try it out soon afterwards …
and so we had our first loaf of bread the very same day. From then onwards the bread maker was kept busy, making two to three loafs a day. As there were 12 of us, we ate rather a lot of food. The bread maker even made cinnamon raisin bread which was very popular for morning or afternoon tea.
After breakfast we went to the Saturday markets. The markets sell a bit of everything, local clothes, fruit and vegies, and most other things in between. There is also a small stage on which a different dancers performs each weekend as a fund raiser for their group. The day we were there a very good singer performed with some children and after the little once had finished a group of teenagers danced. It started raining quite heavily at some point which didn’t deter anyone from enjoying the show. Here are some images of our time at the market…

Ben had pizza bread and Nick had a potato ‘tornado’, which was baked, salted and then somehow cut into this odd shape.

Amelia eventually succumbed to her tiredness, having got up in the middle in the night to catch the plane from Sydney.
The markets are colourful, full of beautiful sounds and good smells.
That’s it for today.
Tanja













