Big Reinemachen in Christchurch (1 of 2)

Getting ready to arrive tidy and cleaned up in Sydney in just 3 days from now!
Big Reinemachen in Christchurch (2 of 2)

Whole City seems to be one big Building site.
Still not at all recovered from 2011 (!) Earthquake.
But great to see an entire city improvi(si)ng.
Dance-o-mat

Found a laundromat with an Ipod adapter and a dancefloor (even had a disco ball) in the middle of the city and had a go on it.
I was struggling with the request list ranging from "Ninjago" viaもっと詳しく
185 chairs

In memory of the 185 casualties of the earthquake.
In the back: the cardboard cathedral
Christchurch - Was wird das denn mal ..

.. wenn's fertig ist?
Überall Baustellen...
All b(l)ack to normal ...

And finally - on our departure day - the country is slowly getting back to normal.
Fingers crossed this was the last bigger quake for a while.
tschüss Neuseeland!

Schön war's. Manchmal etwas kalt*.
Wir kommen gerne wieder!
* nicht immer so kalt wie im Schneesturmsimulator im Antarctic Center (Christchurch)
Kurze Wege..

.. in 5 Min vom Antarctic Center zum Flughafen.
Im Hintergrund: "unser" A380 nach Sidni*
* O-Ton Lucas
warm yet colourful welcome in Coogee

Good morning Coogee !

Dinner chez Dan and Elissa

Over 70 years of "haven't seen since" at the table. Niall with a lot of trouble recognizing me.
Must be the earlier mentioned lack of sustainable hairdressing..
Meat @ Rollo's

Barbie at Grant and Hannah's with to lovely English ladies and a wild German boy.
Mama (Haihappen) erzählt Weihnachts-

geschichten auf Lucas' Standardfrage: "Mama erzählst Du mir bitte was von früher?"
last man standing

Nach dem Fest ist vor dem Fest

Inspirations for 2017 easter, birthday, xmas.
Christmasturkey with Hannah, Grant&Horn

Morning excercises

in our favourate coffee place (Coogee Pavillion)
Back on bike

Beautiful ride to Vaucluse.
Finally catching the first very distant view of the Opera House.
Took some time to finally get a close-up

Lucas travelling all the way to Sydney Opera House to watch his first Circus-show ever.
Playdate in Mosman

While kids went wild at beach and over Lego, Niall and I digged into some old fotoalbums. Realising that we havent changed a bit since the times when we were using street directories to find our wayもっと詳しく
last day @ the beach.

in 2016.
First day @ the beach

in 2017
In Australien immer mit Hut.

auch im Kino.
Lucas, Niall & Jimmy @ Botany Bay
