Rain, rain, rain, sunshine, rain. sunshine, rain, rain, rain! Make up your mind Queenstown! This kind of weather did not bring the crowds. Friday, Saturday and Sunday morning were completely rained out. Sunday afternoon we managed to get in our circus and magic shows and a few people turned up with the better weather. It seems like every time the Extravaganza comes to Queenstown we get rained on but supposedly the week before was the hottest spring week Queenstown had ever had!

The silver lining was, it gave us a chance to catch up with all the people we knew. Because it was so quiet in the weekend we stayed open another day on Monday in the hope we could all make some money. But of course everyone was at school and work. Very few people came until after school. I busted out my magic show.

Monday morning I took Tiwai and Lette into town to Odyssey (I explained Odessey in my last post), it was to finally get out on our own. We had a slow get-away on Tuesday morning because Dad was taking all the Extravaganza rubbish and recycling to drop off.  Poor Kathleena, one of our beloved Gypsies(tarot reader) had lost her friend and fur baby Monty whom she had since he was a puppy.

She was so sad I felt terrible for her. She had  a big wake for him on Monday night and was no where to be seen on Tuesday morning. She usually manages the rubbish and recycle.

Tuesday afternoon saw us back at 12 mile delta. Mum and Dad made us go on an exhausting 2 hour walk to Bobs cove, beautiful but we were too tired.

Wednesday morning was the usual school-work followed by a mission to Queenstown to pick up our broken computer(hence the irregular posts lately) and reinstall a dance pole, neither were ready. We filled in the afternoon training at the pole studio and getting chips and Yonder , one of Queenstowns many bars. They forgot our order. Mum got very hangry! Finally at 5.30pm the pole was ready to be picked up and reinstalled. We left Queenstown at 7pm with no computer, Raha would have to bring that over on Saturday. We drove over the Crown range to Albert town campground and fell straight to sleep.

Thursday morning school work was followed by a very interesting subject… it involved making and baking 30 polymer clay fish, cutting 20 tringle nets(pieces of cloth) and drawing and cutting out 15 cardboard boats! The last piece of the puzzle was to draw the board. We had made our own game. A good game to teach the boys number groups. Roll the dice, pick up that number of fish. Trade 3 fish for a net, 3 nets for a boat. When all the boats are taken the one with the most boats wins.Around three o’clock we whizzed over to our friend Trudy’s house. She lives in a beautiful straw bale house with grass on the roof and amazing high ceilings. I love her house almost as much as I love her. She baked a delicious quince cake.

After a fun filled 3 hours we moved on to my friend Vanessa’s house for dinner and a play. We parked the truck outside so that night I got to have a sleepover with her. Yay!…”Tick, tock, tick, tock!” “Yawn.” “Tick, tock,tick,tock.” “Grrrrrr!” Unfortunately she has a very loud clock right above my bed, so at midnight I crept out of the bed, down the stairs to the door and…Uh oh! The door’s locked! The key is in the lock but it’s stuck! I jiggle it around a bit and finally it comes loose. I step outside and of course it just had to be pouring with rain! Into the rain I go, getting drenched(slight exaggeration) in the process. The truck’s just down the street and of course it’s locked too. I bash on the door, it takes several tries and finally Dad comes to the door. I get into bed and fall asleep before my head hits the pillow. What an exhausting night!

There was some strange weather that week. Next weekend Wanaka. Bye!