Sports day with Makarewa

Today, the juniors had a sports day 

with plenty of activities to keep even Harricane occupied...

No records could be officially broken due to wind assistance 

ie it was blowing a GALE!

Sack Races.....

 Harricane making an excellent attempt to catch up with the competition.

 the final (and well contested) leg of the sack race....

 The parachute game

 and then the running races 

(which Harricane managed to miss 

due to some sort of organisational blip)

 Hasty Hamish on the left

 The 6 year old finals with Kimmy running faster than a gazelle

(this photo is actually darker because the sun disappeared for a while)

 Fairisam running a little slower
than a gazelle with her chicken legs.....

Happy Birthday Fairisam

TCM was over in Aussie working when 

the planning started on this party...

and she had to design the invites from afar......

obviously too much time on her hands.....

 so much so, that Fairisam had trouble deciding which invite to use 

but eventually settled for the third option.....

Party theme.... books.....

 Harricane testing out the icing equipment on his "injure bread man"

 and then assisting with the cleanup

 Fairisam went as Rapunzel from Tangled

 Tash was a wingless fairy

 Biscuit decorating

 Kebab construction

 and kebab destruction!!!

Meleaha's Lollie Kebab

and then the cutting of the cake......

Happy 8th Birthday

Fairisam

2012 Santa Parade

Disappointing Santa Parade this year for TCM - 

so many floats repeated from previous years.

But Harrisam was still enthralled 

and excited to spot their friends on various floats....

 Trista the mermaid

 Harricane

 Elle

Some old classics

and the Big Man himself 

but where was Mrs Claus this year??

TCM goes back to school......

Last weekend, TCM went north to attend her XXth year reunion since graduating.....

The class of '92

although only about 1/3 of the total class were able to be tracked down or attend the festivities...

There was a  tour of the medical school:

 The Histology Lab...

 The Dissection Room (which now has proper ventilation and rubber gloves!!!)

The Anatomy Museum

With the tour finishing in our in our 2nd year lecture theatre....

On the steps of the medical school...

 and finally a dinner at Larnach Castle.

(please accept apologies for lack of photos as TCM forgot to take the camera)