Forced Family Fun on the Queen's Birthday

We got to celebrate the Queen's Birthday with a long weekend. We stayed close to home and did a few things as a family for some "forced family fun."

After doing all of our sporting duties on Saturday, we had a nice dinner with the Luond Family (Kerrin, Jade, Mia and Journey) featured on the roller rama video. They left for Queensland in Aussie and they dropped off their new kitten for us to watch over. We snuck in a few rounds of family gin rummy.

Sunday brought a road trip to Paritutu Park, with a climb up essentially a large rock on the coast. A little scarier as it rained pretty hard making things a bit more slick.

We then hit the Centre City Mall to get some new shoes for me and Logan. Got something to eat at Puke Ariki and off to the next adventure at Govett-Brewster Art Gallery.

We managed to sneak in a walk and skate at the East End of the walkway near the Te Rewa Rewa Bridge before hitting a very busy KFC for a bucket (Shelley craving this from her childhood) and a double down (Eli has been dying to try this for months).

Monday brought a trip out to Kina Rd to fish and comb and build forts with the Ackerman Family (Steve, Sue, Jade and Jonah).

We made it back home and cooked up some fresh kahawai and relaxed after a busy fun filled family weekend!

Kings and Queens of the Roller-Rama

Our last family outing with the Taylor family was a trip to a local burger joint then off to the East End Roller Rink in New Plymouth, the closest we can get to an ice rink without a 6 hr road trip.

For your viewing pleasure.

The Soundtrack: Deirdre Flint's "King of the Roller-Rama"

The Plot: Um, we go round and round and fall down and go boom. And we bid adieu to the Taylors.

The Players;
The Luond Family--Kerrin (in the grey cap); Jade (in red shirt and green top and hair pulled back); Mia (green top) and Journey (pink top)
The Ackerman Family--Steve (slow-mo guy); Sue (funky hat); Jade (blond with black top) and Jonah (little blond guy with blue top, I think I can I think I can...brave little guy chugging along)
The Taylor Family--Ken (grey top); Lori (lavender top and slo-mo); Griffin (red sweat shirt then to dark blue top) and Griffin (blue sweat shirt-"Taranaki Hard Core" on the back)
The Park Family--Peter (shaved head); Shelley (short and sassy hair-do); Logan (Vermont green mtn t- shirt) and Izaak (green and blue hoodie shirt)