Things that blow up

We started Saturday with a nice quiet lunch with Nanny and Poppa at Surreal Cafe, Whenuapai. Nathan's love of trees, flowers and grass (actually his love of eating them) could make this place his favourite spot.

Guy Fawkes Night

Well NZ still commemorates the day when some dude named Guy Fawkes and a few others tried to blow up the Houses of Parliament in Britain about 400 years ago. We do this by letting off fireworks on November 5th. But not only on the actual night, some idiots like to do it in the few nights leading up to it, around 2am and a few nights afterwards. In the little valley we live in this echos very loud and wakes Nathan up :-/ But on the actual night we decided if you can't beat em, join em! So we did enjoy them for a little while (see video also) Now where back to wanting them banned, as we fall off to sleep with what sounds like world war 1 going on outside.