Central Park, NYC

Central Park is a sanctuary from the craziness of the NYC. It's easy to forget you entered from a concrete jungle. We sat ourselves down with a lunch from Whole Foods. I had a delicious egg salad and a spinach, feta orzo salad which I am still obsessed with to this day. If you're interested, I found this recipe which comes pretty darn close. Also took a few too many photos of squirrels. Cheeky little buggers and certainly not shy!

Doing some kind of munted pirouette under a bridge :)

samoa.

As promised, here are some snaps from my recent trip to Samoa. The five days there flew by; our time was spent eating fresh mango and pineapple for breakfast, shopping at the markets, swimming in beautiful tropical waters, sipping from fresh coconuts, relaxing body scrubs and massages and bumpy tour rides. It also included food poisoning but I'm well recovered and food is my friend again! Where to next?

there's no place like home

Home sweet home! We had a fantastic trip with lots to see and do. Hope you have had a pleasant weekend.

love summer holidays

Happy 2009! I have had a wonderful holiday season thus far. We have just returned from a little trip away to Napier where it was smeltering hot! We have never properly been to Napier before so it was a real treat to stay and take in the sights. The city centre is super tidy and the Art Deco buildings are amazing! It's nice to get out of the city and see other parts of our beautiful country.

So, for the next week and a bit (yes, I am still on holiday! teeheehee) I am looking forward to getting back into the crafts and since we have been without the internet whilst away, I have lots of catching up to do on FB + Google Reader! Isn't it sad how we are so internet dependant these days! Well, some of us more than others ;-).

Heres hoping 2009 will be a brilliant year!

Lake Taupo and Mt. Ruapehu in the background

Picnic-ing by Lake Taupo. Me being goofy.

Marine Parade

The view from our room

Loved this shop! Will explain why later..

Art Deco lives!

Snapper at The Thirsty Whale. Mmmm.

The West Quay

Sunrise (same view as above)

My little Civic is now having a well deserved rest after hours of driving

THE END ! XX