Trip To Heavens Edge

Heavens Edge Cook House Gang (photo courtesy of Meg Back)

Last week the kids were all on holiday and the Dad's were working hard, of course, so to save everyone's sanity a few of us decided we should head off into the mountains. So the 4 intrepid "wild hoes", we have Meg to thank for that label, set off in 3 cars with 10 children and a few light refreshments. The road was 4 wheel drive only and we were all very excited to have made it to the top of the first incredibly steep hill, little did we know was that was just the start of many. With a clutch that was slipping and a dodgey hand brake it made for an excellent adventure. All the girls screamed when I stalled it on yet another steep bit ( don'y know what they were worried about - I had it totally under control

"Yeah Right".

Once we made it to the top, WOW it is awesome you feel that this could well be Heavens Edge.

Many thanks to Lisa for letting me show you all her photo album of this trip, it's fantastic, and really does give you an idea of what the place was like. Take a look................

Slideshow courtesy of Lisa Catherwood's Picasa Web Album

DINNER AT HOME

For Grace's birthday this year we decided to have a joint party with Courtney
and venture to the Mud Pools next week, but on the day we had a few girls over for dinner. Spaghetti Bologanese and Cheesecake by candle light under the coconut trees was the order of the day.
Some dressing up and jumping into the pool followed.....

(make sure you've got your mossy spray on girls )

PARY AT THE MUD POOLS AND THE ANCHORAGE

Now onto the party at the Mud Pools, thanks again to Lisa C for her photos. It was a great day, covering ourselves in Mud from head to toe, a few party favourites like egg throwing, cutting the flour cake (first one to make the coin fall gets to fish it out with their teeth) and of course chocolate eating with knife and fork.

BEFORE

AFTER

Ni Sa Bula All,
Welcome to our first attempt at a Blog site, please excuse any glitches along the way, we hope you enjoy seeing what we have all been up to.
We have had some really exciting adventures over the last few months and I know we haven't always been great at keeping in touch. So here's a bit of an overview of the last few months.

What have we been up to ?

Good question - so I thought I'd take a look back through some of our photos and it always amazes me how much we have actually done. There have been birthdays, school trips to Savu Savu and Pacific Harbour, the Kaji Rugby Tournament, Tadra Kahani, swim meets, a couple of Ocean swims, a trip back home to New Zealand for us all skiing, a trip back home for me to sort out Piha and go to the WOW in Wellington.

So for whoever is interested I've been putting together some photos and a bit of blurb about a few of these. It's as much for ourselves as for anything, I thought it would be a great way of keeping an informal record for us to look back on and hopefully while we are away from home we can keep in better touch. We hope you enjoy this site.

Love Dot, Brian , Tom, Grace and Joe Jacob



Kaji Rugby Tournament 2007

This is a very popular competition in both Rugby and Netball held in the Western division of Viti Levu at Nadi's Prince Charles Stadium, although this year they even got a team coming all the way from Vanua Levu to compete. Rubgy is huge in Fiji and the excitement of the kids was heightened even more by the big Fiji Sevens hero Waisale Serevi who came to lead the march through Nadi's main street and open the tournament.


I have put together a slide show of the day and I hope it captures a little of the atmosphere, it was a privilege to be part of the day and a wonderful experience for Tom.

Still on the subject of rugby, although I know a lot of you back in NZ would rather be forgetting, the Flying Fijians are Huge at the moment, national hero's even. The interim prime minister here said if it was down to him there would be a new public holiday declared. At this stage I think this idea has been quietly down played. Anyway, on Fiji TV we have been getting some great ads, in particular the fmf biscuits doing the fijian cibi(pronounced thimba), which is a fijian meke (dance), pretty much an equivalent of the maori haka. See what you think.

As you see I'm still working on the layout of all this, but thought the best way to find what suits us is to jump on in and give it a go. I hope you all enjoy our blog and please send me some feedback.


Moce (pronounced mothay ) for now