Tempus fugit and all that... We survived the winter!! Long, cool and pretty wet. But buckets of snow up on Ruapehu. We hit a snow base of over 5m this year, normally a good year we are on about 2.5m so WOW!! did we have some snow?!!

Jenny was the only one who got some winter sun, her school choir were invited to perform in the Sydney Opera House so mid-winter she pottered off to Sydney. They had put together a musical arrangement of traditional and contemporary songs that told the story the ANZAC soldiers through the ages. An awesome arrangement which we hope to get on Youtube at some point for you all to see!

They all seemed to have a great time, they had some spare time so they did some of the Sydney beaches and the Home and Away location. Apparently they were challenged by a fellow passenger on the flight over to Sydney so they gave an impromptu performance on the plane!