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| JC and Joe on Mt. Eden with the Sky Tower behind them |
JC and Joe have been good friends since 6th grade (right?), so it was great to have him come visit us in Auckland. Uncle JC brought toys for the boys and Dunkin Donuts coffee for us (hooray!), and spent a couple of weeks with us here in New Zealand. He did the daily life stuff, like walking to pick up the boys from school, going to the Walking School Bus BBQ, buying carrots and other veg at the local vegetable markets and playing the "bad guy" while superheros Duncan and Ewan attacked. We also got to do some more touristy stuff, which was great fun. We went to the Waitomo caves that are full of glow worms, and to Hobbiton, which is where some scenes from The Hobbit movies were shot. Pretty cool stuff! We went to a Waikowhai beach and Mission Beach, and JC went to a couple of different islands and explored the city of Auckland, as well. If you see him, you should ask him about those trips and see some of those pictures, cause they're pretty cool.
And now a few photos from stuff we did with Uncle JC:
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| Duncan and Ewan painted "Welcome Home" signs for Daddy and Uncle JC, since they came back from America together |
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| Ewan may have gotten some paint on his hands. And face. And belly, and legs. |
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| Digger from Uncle JC at Waikowhai beach |
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| Ewan drove the dump truck all over the beach at Waikowhai |
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| Checking out the photos |
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| Joe and Big E in the water at Mission Bay |
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| Sand angles at the beach in Mission Bay |
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| Of course the digger and dump truck went to this beach, too |
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| Ewan making sand angles |
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| They got a bit sandy |
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| At the playground |
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| After seeing the glow worms in the cave |
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| Strolling along the beach |
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| Hobbiton!There are many more fun pictures of The Shire, but that will require a
whole new blog post all by itself, so I will just give you this one of
us at the sign before we enter The Shire. |
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It was great fun having JC here with us and wish he could've stayed longer. I think he is planning his next visit to us, though, so we will get to hang out with him again in New Zealand soon! Yeah!
