Family Fun

Photo's
1) riding around lake hayes
2)Cooling off half way
3)Pet Aaron Holly and Patrick in the drive way
4)Dave and Claire on their big day
5)Claires hen's outfit

After a week with my brother Richard up in Auckland I came home to a visit from Aaron's mum Pet, step dad Richard, and our wonderful Niece and Nephew Holly and Patrick.
We did alot of bike riding including a lap of Lake Hayes and From Frankton to town and back along Lake Wakatipu. The Kids have grown up so much. Holly even made the dinner one night( yummy tuna sushi) They helped us around the garden, we played board games and swam.
The other special thing this weekend was Dave and Claires wedding. Alot more classy than the hen's night!

Happy New year!

Well we have had some holidays

I went to Paynes ford climbing and Aaron joined me a few days later.
We did some climbing relaxing and lots of eating but due to our fitness didn't climb anything hard

Then a lovely christmas with Aaron's Parents Pet and Richard...Well other than Aaron having a tummy bug and throwing up out the window!
We had Salmon and Pav...Yummmy

Back to queenstown for some more mountain biking and climbing both of which are going really well for me with a lot of improvement lately. I did a new climb on Admiral wall. If you do a climb first you can name it and I have called it Vinnie rex in Honour of the beautiful baby boy.
Also talking of babies I went and Saw Maryanne and Ian's new arrival Amelie Dee...Super cute little blondie.

hope you are having fun too

Baby Vincent Rex Carter arrived on the 11th!

We are super stoked about the new addition to our family.

More South Wye/ MERRY CHRISTMAS

We got a couple more routes done further Left (centrefold 20,22 and Lambs to the slaughter 18,16,23,18) and this time one of them goes all the way to the top!
Guillame came along too so we had a very international team ( Tony is a Pom, and G man is French)
That looks like our last trip up there for a while though as we are off to Sunny Nelson and Golden Bay for a holiday over Christmas...Yay!

I wish all our loved friends and family a safe and happy Christmas

South Wye

We have been busy developing a new climbing area in Queenstown with our friend Tony. it is about 2 hrs walk up hill to the rock wall which is 200m high. so far we have walked along the half way ledge and abseiled down place bolts to climb back up. we have done 2 new routes.
One is called Big day out and is 4 pitches long the difficulty grades are 20,21,16,18. the hard bits are short. The other one is called 2 steps ahead of the pack and is 2 pitches long. grade 20,24 this is consistently hard.
The cliff is huge so there are a lot more climbs to do as well as the top half above what we have done so it should keep us buy for many weekends to come. we have made a rock bivvy there so have somewhere nice and sheltered to sleep. We will probably camp up there for the first time next weekend.
On a personal note my brother John is going to have his first baby( well actually Steph is) and I am super excited about becoming an aunty. Love you too Holly and Patrick.

Photos
1) our bivvy cave
2) Sally climbing at South Wye
3) Tony Burnell
4) Aaron

We had a lovely weekend up in Canterbury

Aaron flew up after work on Friday night and we went to Curators for a nice meal.
The following morning we Wandered around the shops and had brunch in Christchurch city.
That after noon we meet Simon out at Castle Hill for some bouldering( thanks for the photo's Simon)
We got tired out on the first 3 boulders we got to!
A night in Methven then of to Hanging rock near Pleasant point ( great icecream shop). Hanging rockkhas beautiful views and is a really nice place to visit. The climbing was quite hard though! maybe because the holds are very open compared to our local rock.
All in all a fantastic weekend

Photo's
1) Aaron at castle hill
2) Sally at Castle hill
3) Aaron at Hanging rock on Mad gesture 19?

A few Random Photo's of the two of us

Photo's
1)On our wedding Day in Front of Lake Hayes, Queenstown The ceremony was at the lake edge beneath the trees.
2) sally and Aaron at Adelaide Saddle, Darren Mountains, Milford at sunset on Honeymoon
3) I think this is at the Summit of Moirs mate , Darrens, Milford at christmas
here you go Wendy
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