Getting up early on saturday!
Well, for some undertakings you must pay a price. Besides, the little one invited me.
So, early we went to the regular Saturday rugby tournament. The lovely boy attends training once a week, to where I drive him and on Saturday there’s the game. This time the opposing team was too mighty, which denied us victory.
Rugby is the national sport of New Zealand. Almost everybody is playing it and everybody is a fan of the All Blacks, the undefeated national team. And what sport it is, indeed!
One day I will see the All Blacks themselves play, but thiss little game gave me quite a taste to begin with.
I just let the pictures and captions speak for themselves…
Rugby is played with a great deal of tumbling.
It is funny to see those rascals and rascallettes whack and smash each other all the way. 🙂
And running. Running is what you do! 😀
But rugby is not the only sport taking place that day, it isn’t! Afterwards I witnessed a game of netball of the eldest girl. Also some national sport, but more on the women’s side… From there we proudly took the ‘player of the day’ home. 🙂
Also afterwards both of the older siblings had an indoor cricket match, the youngest had a game of hockey and the eldest, again, had an underwater hockey match. As the schedule was interlaced and all cars plus grandparents were active, I stayed home after rugby and netball…
It is interesting to see what deal those sports mean to the Kiwis. The parents meet on the side of the park and talk, the kids have fun playing (well, mostly) and there’s an engaging club culture. The week plan, and often day plan is built around sport and when you just sit over a cup of coffe outside a café in the park, you see many people practising various sports.
It is becoming closer and closer to winter every day and you not only notice that by the smudgy wheather, but by the temperature. It is freezing now, even though the sun shines and the hills are green. But maybe my body is thinking about summer in May/ June instead about 10 degrees and breezes…
My heatable bed is most welcome then. 🙂 Also, things like the scarf/ my hat and gloves, which I didn’t pay to much attention towards until now, gain in relevance…
New Zealand grass.
Rarely a graveyard looked more beautiful. But as the ghosts woke up, we better went our way. 🙂
Ohariu Bay. Pretty cold. And pretty. 🙂
This morning we had a blackout! That was quite thrilling for me and the boy, as neither of us had experienced it yet. But after about 45 minutes of nailbiting everything went back to normal. All the clocks are now readjusted and heating works again.
The next weekend we will go to the South Island with some more au pairs. Thanks to the Queen’s birthday there is a long weekend coming up and we intend to make use of it.
So I will ditch my plans to first discover the North Island in favour of this adventure…
