It was William's first trip to Newzealand recently.His second international flight in a year!what are we doing to the boy?Anyway,he travelled like the little dreamboat that he is!He only began to lose it on our descent into christchurch(after non stop delays all the way from perth).And so instead of getting on another flight to torture him some more we chose to drive down to cromwell instead.That was good as billy and his big brother and sister slept for alot of the trip.We stopped in a veeeerry cold where the kids had a run around in the playground there.Our little australian-born boy didn't seem to care about the cold and he had fun exploring some rock-garden feature.Then it was back on the road furthur south to central otago!It was so wonderful to show Billy off to the family,His grandparents and aunties could not get over how much bigger he was since they last saw him last christmas.On saturday 26th sept was His aunty Fiona's wedding to uncle shane.Billy was very active and ran around alot outside the church.I sat at the back of the church with him and distracted him with my shiny bracelet!But he was very good!.We stayed at a kid-friendly motel and billy absolutely loved the big trampoline there.He also was fascinated by his cousin katherine(who is 5-months older),and kept trying to cuddle her(awwww)but katie cryed!Heeheehee.
On the monday,and after farewelling the family(boohoo)the previous night,it was on to an early flight out of Queenstown.Later that day we flew into Napier and billy's gran,uncle gerry and 3 cousins were there to greet us!It was first introductions to billy for them so it was very exciting.We had a fantastic stay in beautiful Hawkes Bay(the highlight for us was the drive up to the top of Te Mata Peak,with views ofthe entire region.Fantastic!).Billy loved his uncle and aunt's paddling pool!!And playing with his cousin Willoughby(only 2 weeks older than billy).He also loved walking/running everywhere!He just had a ball.Gran had to put all her pretty things up higher though as billy broke a couple bits.Sorry mum!.It was another sad farewell to gran and uncle and then we hit the road again,stopping in taupo(beautiful weather there)Then onto Auckland to stay with his aunty shanz.We all enjoyed just relaxing next to the fire,listening to the rain outside.We never did get to go out on the farm as it was just too wet.Billy was intrigued by his cousin logan(who is 9-months old)as it was someone smaller than himself.Not for long though,once logan starts wwalking!.We took loads of photos and then said our goodbyes.
Then it was the long flight back to perth which luckily was a night flight so billy,Jas and Roo slept the entire way.Wahoo!!Since being back in perth billy has settled easily back into his routine.He is such an easy and chilled out little fella though.