Life on holiday sure is great! A few more days of this and I think we will be reconsidering how we do things the rest of the year!
Taupo really is a magical place. For all of those in Nelson, you would be amazed at how quickly they (the Taupo council) have signed off on, and almost finished building, a monstrous bypass complete with a massive bridge that goes right over the top of the Waikato River, the famous Prawn Farm and Huka Jet to connect up with State Highway 1. The last time we were here in Feb this year construction hadn't even begun as far as I am aware, and now it is almost finished! Honestly it is massive.

Hoping that everyone else is taking abit of time off to relax and enjoy the family - given the recent legislation around the holidays act I imagine that even some of our retail & hospitality clients will be putting their collective feet up over some of the public holidays as the extra staffing costs sure make business a whole lot harder than it need to be in these already tough times. I am kind of glad that we don't have to deal with that this year.

Sophia is loving all of the bird life at Haylee's parents home in Taupo. Haylee's mum is the go-to person in Taupo for rescuing birds so the garden is full of a dozen or so teenage ducks growing up and a bunch of baby blackbirds getting hand reared amongst other things. Two fluffy baby ducks are in and out of the house all day coming for cuddles with Sophia - she loves it, they love it, and we have even got a great collection of photos to use in our photo library. So if you ever need to use a photo of a little girl kissing a fluffy baby duck you know who to call (or email)!