5 months after the initial lockdown from Covid, New Zealand’s borders remained closed to the rest of the world and all of it’s beauty open and accessible to all of those who remained within those borders. There’s not really much more to say about that. We worked, we schooled, and we continued to travel as much as possible in the camper van aka “Sharkie” or “Taniwha”. I often would take the kids on shorter trips over the weekends: camping, going on little treks, looking for more Kiwi Guardian posts and finding animals to pet, while Christian and Nina stayed back and worked. Nina was working pretty much all weekends at Get Fixed Café in the coffee/café portion while Christian remained in the bicycle mechanic section.

Ashley Park was one of our favorite spots to go that wasn’t too far from Wellington. They had great camping spots, it was quiet, and tons of animals to see.

Foxton Beach:

Random things I felt worthy of posting.

Nina off to her first Formal (New Zealand’s version of Prom)

Yes that’s correct, above you will see us falling in love with a puppy and soon to be ours in October, 2020.

We made it into the local book of tales from “The Lockdown”, so we went to the book release and signing party at Get Fixed Cafe. The photo below was even featured on the local news broadcast.

That’s it for this post. Next up will be of the Abel Tasman hike that I, Josie, and Ellamae did with Ellamae’s friends. What an epic journey that was.